Kopenick No. 2 / Copanic / Copenick / Cöpenick / Koepenick / Kopanica / Köpenick-Berlin

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view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2012 by Bodo Kubrak [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schlosskirche_(Berlin-Köpenick)_Portalseite.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the chapel within the castle grounds

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2005 by Andreas Steinhoff [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schloss_Köpenick_8.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: The copyright holder of this file, Andreas Steinhoff, allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed. Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is permitted.

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the castle seen from Langen Brücke

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2005 by Andreas Steinhoff [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schloss_Köpenick_2.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2013]

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: the retable is detached from the altar table, the top of which is seen in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2013 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3 September 2013)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2013 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3 September 2013)

INFORMATION

FontID: 18645KOP

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Reformierte Schlosskirchengemeinde Köpenick

Country Name: Germany

Location: Berlin, Berlin

Directions to Site: Independent until the 20thC, the 14thC old town of Köpenick is now a SE district of Berlin, in the borough of Treptow-Köpenick, on an island at the confluence of the Dahme and Spree rivers

Historical Region: Prussia

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1873?

Century and Period: 19th century (late?), Modern

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: the chapel is part of the castle [Schloss Köpenick] and was started in the late 17thC -- restored in the 1970s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font consisting of a shallow octagonal moulded basin; it has an inscription in German around the sides of the upper surface of the basin appears to to be the text of Mark 16: 16; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with window tracery on the sides, and an octagonal moulded lower base. It is painted white, with gilded edges on the inner basin well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.443611, 13.573841

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 37″ N, 13° 34′ 25.83″ E

UTM: 33U 403067 5811336

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, cast stone (artifical)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German

Inscription Notes: the inscription appears to be the text of Mark 16: 16

Inscription Location: around the sides of the upper surface of the basin

Inscription Text: ["Wer da glaubet und getauft wird, der wird selig werden; wer aber nicht glaubet, der wird verdammt werden."]

Inscription Source: Luther Bibel (1545): "Wer da glaubet und getauft wird, der wird selig werden; wer aber nicht glaubet, der wird verdammt werden." [English text in King James version: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."]