Lehnin / Koster Lehnin

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: the present font -- painted on all over

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 April 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the monastery ruins ca. 1858

Image Source: digital rendering of a 1858 oil painting by Eduard Gaertner (1801-1877) [http://images.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/I/big/73c116a.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2014]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - cloister

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2013 by A. Savin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PM08-13_img03_Kloster_Lehnin.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: late-15th century?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2013 by Kalima [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Convent_of_Lehnin_church_altar.JPG] [accessed 31 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the present font -- notice the hook on the finial of the font cover, probably meant to have a pulley chain anchored to it originally

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2014 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 May 2014]

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the present font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2014 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 May 2014]

INFORMATION

FontID: 19243LEH

Church/Chapel: Klosterkirche St. Marien (Kloster Lehnin)

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Mittelheide, 14797 Kloster Lehnin, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg

Directions to Site: Located 15 km SE of Brandenburg an der Havel, 24 km WSW of Potsdam

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Brandenburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, E end

Century and Period: 17th century, Late Renaissance? / Baroque?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for the additional information on the Renaissance font here

Church Notes: original church of the Cistercian monastery ca. 1180

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present baptismal font is of octagonal hour-glass design; appears to be painted wood; matching font cover. The font cover, of matching material, design and decoration, has a metal loop at the finial, probably meant to have a pully chain anchored to. This possibly mid-17th century font is located at the east end of the nave, just west of the chancel arch, south side. [cf. BSI entry for Rottstock for the possible font of the medieval church here]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 2 November 2023) includes a comment on the later font by a visitor to Lehnin, with reference to Schulin's references (2021) to the Renaissance period in Germany, to which time the later font in Lehnin may belong: "1. Viertel 17. Jh. Ich kenne die historische Entwicklung der Renaissance in Deutschland nicht sehr gut. Die allgemeine Meinung scheint zu sein, dass es im Vergleich zu Frankreich und Italien eine Zeitverzögerung von etwa einem Jahrhundert gibt. Die Renaissance hielt in Deutschland länger an als in den Nachbarländern. Manche betrachten das Jahr 1620 als das Ende der Renaissance in Deutschland. Andere datieren dies später : der Dreißigjährige Krieg (1618–1648) ließ die Bauwirtschaft in Deutschland stagnieren. Nach seinem Ende gewann der aus Italien kommende Barock die Oberhand in der deutschen Architektur. In dieser Übergangszeit stellt Betram Schulin ein Aspekt fest dass er nennt : die Taufbecken-Taufdeckel- Einheit. Es betrifft eine besonders auffällige Gestaltungsform, nämlich eine Symmetrie, wobei diese am häufigsten beschränkt auf Kuppa und Deckel. Es gibt aber auch einige wenige eindrucksvolle Beispiele einer Gesamtsymmetrie. Eine Symmetrie eigener Art, die Becken als Ganzes und Deckel umfassen, sind schließlich solche, bei denen zum einen Kuppa und Schaft/Fuß und zum anderen (Kelch-)Kuppa und Kuppeldeckel symmetrisch sind, wie etwa in Ev. St. Marien zu Kloster Lehnin. Der Symmetrie-Eindruck wird dabei stark durch die einheitliche Ornament-Bemalung gefördert. Diese Gestaltung war jedoch vorübergehend und hat sich nicht durchgesezt."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.320278, 12.743333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 19′ 13″ N, 12° 44′ 36″ E

UTM: 33U 346197 5799059

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: painted wood -- notice the hook on the finial of the font cover, probably meant to have a pulley chain anchored to it originally

REFERENCES

Schulin, Bertram, Taufbecken in Deutschland: Form und Ikonographie, 2021