Leipzig No. 2 / Leipsic / Lipsia
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 24 February 2014]
Results: 10 records
B01: Old Testament - Genesis - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17)
B02: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - crossing of the Red Sea
B03: Old Testament - Naaman's leprosy (2 Kings 5) - Naaman comes to the Jordan, dips himself seven times and is cured
Scene Description: 2 Kings 5
B04: New Testament - Acts - Philip baptises the eunuch
Scene Description: Acts 8: 26-40
inscription
Scene Description: John 3:5 ["Es sei denn daß jemand geboren werde aus Wasser und Geist, so kann er nicht in das Reich Gottes kommen" = "I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God"]
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2003 by Dirk Goldhahn [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leipzig_Thomaskirche.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
view of church interior - chancel
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Altar of Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Bach's grave can be seen in the floor" -- the 17th-century baptismal font is located between the altar and Bach's tomb -- the altar was originally from the now demolished Paulinerkirche of Leipzig
Copyright Statement: image copyright © Hbar.cc, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2007 by Hbar.cc [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StThomas_Leipzig_hb.JPG] [accessed 30 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 November 2008 by S-kay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomaskirche_Interior.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
view of font
Scene Description: the 17th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 24 February 2014]
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 24 February 2014]
INFORMATION
FontID: 19127LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Thomaskirche [earlier [13thC] a monastery of the Augustinian order]
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas
Church Location: Thomaskirchhof 18, 04109 Leipzig, Germany -- Tel.: +49 341 222240
Country Name: Germany
Location: Leipzig, Sachsen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery [originally located beneath the west gallery]
Date: 1614-1615
Century and Period: 17th century(early), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Georg Kriebel and Franz Julius Döteber
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: originally of the 12thC, ca. 1160; remodelled in the mid-14th, late-15th and early-18thC -- Johann Sebastian Bach worked here as a Kapellmeister
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with tapering sides decorated with four Biblical scenes (Flood, Crossing of the Red Sea, healing of Naaman and Baptism of the eunuch by Philip), and inscriptions, raised on a pedestal base and four figures of children that hold up the basin in atlante position; the main body of the fonts is in black marble, the four children are alabaster and the basin sides are of mixed marble colours. The original wooden font cover was lost in the Second Worl War. A news report of the restoration of the baptismal font in the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, appeared in the Leipziger Internet Zeitung [www.l-iz.de/Bildung/Zeitreise/2008/10/Restaurierung-des-Taufsteins-d-200810212014.html] and [www.l-iz.de/Leben/Gesellschaft/2009/04/In-barocker-Schönheit-restauriert-Thomaskirche.html] [accessed 30 March 2014]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original mid-12th century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.339167, 12.3725
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 20′ 21″ N, 12° 22′ 21″ E
UTM: 33U 316991 5690820
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble and alabaster
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [lost or destroyed in World War II]