Flensburg No. 3 / Flansborj / Flensborag / Flensborg / Flensborre
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19thC(?) wooden font
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view of font and cover
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140701036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_9.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_5.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_6.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of basin - upper view
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: the base is a modern replacement
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_6.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - intersecting
Scene Description: incised; at the bottom of the underbowl
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_6.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the old font is visible on the left [north] side, before the bank of benches](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140701032_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the old font is visible on the left [north] side, before the bank of benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_16.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sönke Rahn, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2012 by Sönke Rahn [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heiliggeistkirche_(Flensburg).JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: ca. 1591
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Image Source: digital photograph of a 1591 painting; taken 18 December 2011 by Sönke Rahn [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Heiliggeistkirche_auf_dem_Beyerschen_Epitaph_in_St._Marien_(Flensburg)_von_1591.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the 19thC(?) wooden font
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Shows two fonts.
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view of church interior - votive ship
Scene Description: one of two
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view of church interior - votive ship
Scene Description: one of two
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view of church interior - west end
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view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - Martyrdom of St. Erasmus
Scene Description: St Erasmus, aka Elmo
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view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - Last Judgement
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view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - Last Judgement
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view of church interior - altar and retable
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view of church interior - painting
Scene Description: one of the mural paintings in this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sönke Rahn, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 3 December 2011 by Sönke Rahn [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altar_der_Heiliggeistkirche,_Flensburg_2011,_Bild_5.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sönke Rahn, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 2011 by Sönke Rahn [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altar_der_Heiliggeistkirche,_Flensburg_2011,_Bild_1.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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information
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Image Source: Field Notes taken on site by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19321FLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2023-06-17
Font Date: ca. 1386?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [basin only]
Church / Chapel Name: Heiliggeistkirche / Helligåndskirken
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, E end
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Ghost
Church Notes: church built in 1386 as part of the Hospital zum Heiligen Geist, and a chapel-of-ease to Hauptkirche St. Marien [Vor Frue Kirke]
Church Address: Große Str. 43, 24937 Flensburg, Germany
Site Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 86 km NW of Kiel. The church is in Flensburg old town, in Marienkirchspiel
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Schleswig
Additional Comments: altered font? (modern replacement base?)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of course reddish granite; hemispherical basin has moulded sides, and an incised pattern of round crossing arch-heads (?) on the bottom of the underbowl. Raised on a white-washed quadrangular pedestal base [modern?]. There is a later font, probably 19th-century, octagonal basin on a slender decorated base with four legs ending in animal paws; cover of same design and material, with ball-and-cross finial; it is made of wood.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 527 812 6071231
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.7875, 9.4325
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 47' 15" N, 9° 25' 57" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 10 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 53-54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73-74 cm*
Basin Depth: 21-22 cm*
Basin Total Height: 48 cm*
Height of Base: 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site