Blankensee nr. Trebbin

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Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014

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Results: 13 records

animal - varied

a number of scenes with birds drinking from fountains or chalices, picking at fruit, fighting (?), etc.; on the sides of the basin proper
Scene Description: a number of scenes with birds drinking from fountains or chalices, picking at fruit, fighting (?), etc.; on the sides of the basin proper
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

context

The Baroque building locally known as 'Blankensee Schloss' or 'Sudermannschloss' was Hermann Sudermann's summer residence as of 1902, and held the author's collection of imported works of art, including the well-head that would later become a baptismal font at the parish church. Some of the rooms have been made available to visitors since 2006, and the gardens are maintained as a private park occessible to visitors at given dates.
Scene Description: The Baroque building locally known as 'Blankensee Schloss' or 'Sudermannschloss' was Hermann Sudermann's summer residence as of 1902, and held the author's collection of imported works of art, including the well-head that would later become a baptismal font at the parish church. Some of the rooms have been made available to visitors since 2006, and the gardens are maintained as a private park occessible to visitors at given dates.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Morn, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Morn 5 April 2009 [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blankensee_(Trebbin)#mediaviewer/Datei:Trebbin_Blankensee_Gutshaus.jpg] [accessed 12 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - interlaced arches - columns with capitals and bases

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

design element - architectural - arch-head - round - intersecting

some survive [seen here on the left side]; others have been destroyed, as those on the right side of the image
Scene Description: some survive [seen here on the left side]; others have been destroyed, as those on the right side of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 4

in the spandrels on the sides
Scene Description: in the spandrels on the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

design element - motifs - nail-head

a band of, just below the upper rim
Scene Description: a band of, just below the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
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head - 4

two animal, two human (?); in the spandrels of the angles
Scene Description: two animal, two human (?); in the spandrels of the angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Morn, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2009 by Morn [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blankensee_(Trebbin)#mediaviewer/Datei:Trebbin_Blankensee_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 12 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - altar and retable

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

view of church interior - monument

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 June 2014)

INFORMATION

FontID: 19276BLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche Blankensee
Church Location: Dorfstraße 19, OT Blankensee, 14959 Trebbin, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Teltow-Fläming, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Trebbin, near Schoenhagen and Stangenhagen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th century [re-cycled well-head], Romanesque [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font, and to Pol Herman for his help in documenting the font
Church Notes: original church 14thC
Font Notes:
The entry for the Dorfkirche Blankensee in the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. [https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-blankensee] [accessed 11 April 2023] reports an 11th-century Venetian well-head re-cycled here as baptismal font: "Als Taufstein dient ein sogar aus dem 11. Jahrhundert stammender venezianischer Brunnenstein, den der ursprünglich aus Ostpreußen stammende Dramatiker und Dichter Hermann Sudermann als späterer Besitzer des Gutes, nach Blankensee brachte." The present font in this church is a square monolithic block with a carved out colonnade of two round arches per side; only the four angle columns are detached; the interior block is round; the whole object is profusely carved with human and animal heads, animal scenes, foliage, interlace patterns, etc. The basin interior is round and has a metal frame supporting baptismal dish, as it is common in these areas. It is locally known to have been formerly a Venetian well-head of the first-half of the 11th century, and it came to the church from the estate of Hermann Sudermann. The object was donated to the church by the Sudermann-Stiftung in 1955. [NB: romantic and nationalist writer (1857-1928) born in Matzicken, then Prussia; today southwest Lithuania; moved to Blankensee in 1902; travelled in Italy and other countries, and collected art works in his mansion there].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.239688, 13.124967
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 14′ 22.88″ N, 13° 7′ 29.88″ E
UTM: 33U 371972 5789354

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining