Wannsee / Wannsee-Berlin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: and inscription
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church interior - chancel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2013 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 July 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18533WAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1837?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century
Church / Chapel Name: St. Peter und Paul auf Nikolskoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: church built by King Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1837
Church Address: Nikolskoer Weg 17, Auf Nikolskoe, 14109 Berlin -- Tel.: 030 8052100
Site Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Volkspark Glienecke, 5 km across from Postdam, in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of veined marble, consisting of a smallish octagonal basin decorated with a thick moulding around the upper rim, raised on a splaying octagonal pedestal base and an octagonal lower base; there is an inscription with the text of Mark 16, 16: "Wer da glaubet und getauft wird, der wird selig werde" [="Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved"].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 372110 5809912
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.424444, 13.119167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 25′ 28″ N, 13° 7′ 9″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: no drainage system
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: around the upper surface of the basin rim
Inscription Text: "Wer da glaubet und getauft wird, der wird selig werde"
Inscription Notes: Mark 16, 16