Groben / Gröben [disappeared?]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lienhard Schulz, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2004 by Lienhard Schulz [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_1_Gröben.JPG] [accessed 31 May 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19244GRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1250?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Dorfkirche Gröben
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Notes: original church built by the Cistercians ca. 1250; renovated early-16thC; expanded mid-19thC; destroyed by fire in 1908 and re-built in 1909
Church Address: Gröbener Dorfstr. 40, 14974 Ludwigsfelde OT Gröben
Site Location: Teltow-Fläming, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Ludwigsfelde, 10 km NNW of Trebbin, in the southern suburbs of Berlin
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Brandenburg
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church is modern and made of wood; it consists of a shallow cylindrical basin rraised on three colonnettes with fluted stems and capitals and bases, on a round lower base. [NB: we have no information on the font of the mid-13th century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
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UTM: 33U 374942 5794135