Berlin No. 7 / Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf / Wilmersdorf / Wilmerstorff
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image and permission received (e-mail of 12 October 2013)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2013 by Volin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 12 October 2013)
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2013 by Volin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 12 October 2013)
view of church interior - altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2013 by Volin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 12 October 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18751BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1933?
Font Century and Period/Style: 20th century (early), Modern
Workshop/Group/Artisan: designed by Johann Friedrich Höger
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: there was no earlier church known in this site/locality
Church Address: Nassauische Straße 66-67, 10717 Berlin, Germany -- Tel.: 030 8731043
Site Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: The church is located at the eastern side of Hohenzollernplatz square in the locality of Wilmersdorf, now in the Bezirke [borough] Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Historical Region: formerly Bezirke Wilmersdorf
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of clinker [vitrified] brick by Johann Friedrich [Fritz] Höger (1877-1949); the font is shaped as a single volume, much like a tower of bricks in a somewhat cruciform arrangement; square domed copper cover with a Greek-cross finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 386420 5817316
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.494143, 13.326995
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 38.92″ N, 13° 19′ 37.18″ E