Steglitz / Berlin-Steglitz
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image and permission received (e-mail of 31 December 2012)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19thC font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 31 December 2012)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19thC font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 31 December 2012)
view of church exterior - northwest end
Scene Description: the 19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mutter Erde, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 200 by Mutter Erde [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MatthaeusSteglitz1-Mutter_Erde_fec.jpg] [accessed 20 July 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18536STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Matthäuskirche, Steglitz
Font Location in Church: [disppeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Matthew
Church Notes: present church built from 1876 to 1880 to replace the dilapidated 12th Steglitzer village church
Church Address: Schloßstraße 44, 12165 Berlin, Germany
Site Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in the SW of Berlin
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font probably of the date of the re-building of the church itself, 1880; it consists of a hemispherical basin raised on a central pedestal base, with four additional outer colonnettes that attach to the upper rim of the basin. Metal (?) dome cover. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 385725 5813099
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.4561, 13.3182
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 27′ 21.96″ N, 13° 19′ 5.52″ E