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Image Source: illustration in Haupt (1888)
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design element - patterns - ribbed
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Image Source: illustration in Haupt (1888)
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © N. Simonsen, 2012
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sönke Rahn, 2011
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: ca. 1830
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Image Source: illustration in Haupt (1888)
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19320FLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten?
Cognate Fonts: many such others
Church / Chapel Name: Dorfkirche St. Johannes / Johanniskirche / Adelbyer Kirche / Kirche St. Johannis zu Adelby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Johanniskirchhof 22, 24937 Flensburg, Germany
Site Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the K28, at the SW end of the Flensburger Förde, 86 km NW of Kiel. Adelby is the core of Flensburg old town
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Schleswig
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Haupt (1888): "Taufstein [...] frühgotisch Gotländer Kalkstein, ein Pokal, wie der Petersdorfer". Baptismal font of Gotland limestone in the characteristic design: hemispherical basin with pointed ribbed pattern all around the sides and underbowl; on a conical pdestal base with roll moulding at the centre ring position, splaying lower base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 528355 6070798
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.783583, 9.440889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 47′ 0.9″ N, 9° 26′ 27.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Haupt, Richard, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein mit Ausnahme des Kreises Herzogtum Lauenburg 2, Kiel: Ernst Homann, 1888, p. 298, fig. 418