Lubben / Lübben
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view of font
Scene Description: on the left panel, Noah's ark
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of font - northwest side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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angel - cherub - head - 4
Scene Description: quite pronounced; on alternate panels of the underbowl chamfer
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: on alternate sides of the underbowl chamfer
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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scene [unidentified]
![the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131108029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pudelek (Marcin Szala), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2012 by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lübben_(Spreewald)_-_Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche.JPG][accessed 8 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - pulpit - detail
Scene Description: like the altar and the font, made of limestone in 1609 by Samuel Hanauer
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - nave - looking east - detail
Scene Description: the pulpit in the foreground
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - organ and west gallery
Scene Description: organ built in Postdam in 1906 by Alexander Schuke using parts of the earlier organ of 1846
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lübben_Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche_Orgel.jpg][accessed 8 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: made of limestone in 1609 by Samuel Hanauer -- a part of the font basin is visible in the foreground, left (north) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lübben_Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche_Altar.jpg][accessed 8 November 2013]
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view of base - northwest side
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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human figure - 4
Scene Description: one is in an atlante position, another seated, etc.
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 November 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18764LUB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1610
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Samuel Hanauer
Church / Chapel Name: Paul-Gerhardt Evangelische Kirche, Lübben
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, N side, to the left of the altar
Church Patron Saint(s): [original dedication to St. Nicholas -- the church is named after the theologian and pastor Paul Gerhardt]
Church Notes: the medieval church here was dismantled and the materials re-used to build a new church between 1494 and 1550; new church much damaged in WWII; restored in 1988
Church Address: Paul-Gerhardt-Straße 2, 15907 Lübben (Spreewald), Germany
Site Location: Dahme-Spreewald, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 87, WNW of Cottbus, in the Spreewald district
Additional Comments: painted font: painted and gilded -- disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of limestone in 1610 by Samuel Hanauer [Hanauer was also responsible for the pulpit and the altar retable, both of limestone as well]; it consists of an octagonal basin decorated with Biblical scenes painted and heavily gilded, the underbowl chamfer with cherub heads and foliage equally rendered, octagonal to round; the base is round, with figures at the 90-degree angles, buttresses, floral and foliage motifs in between, again, heavily gilded and painted; on a plain square plinth.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 424204 5755159
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.94198, 13.89733
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 31.13″ N, 13° 53′ 50.39″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal