Flensburg No. 3 / Flansborj / Flensborag / Flensborg / Flensborre

Results: 25 records

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

Scene Description: incised; at the bottom of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_6.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_6.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: the base is a modern replacement

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field Notes taken on site by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: ca. 1591

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2012 by Sönke Rahn [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heiliggeistkirche_(Flensburg).JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the old font is visible on the left [north] side, before the bank of benches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_16.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - Last Judgement

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - Last Judgement

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - Martyrdom of St. Erasmus

Scene Description: St Erasmus, aka Elmo

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: one of the mural paintings in this church

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - votive ship

Scene Description: one of two

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - votive ship

Scene Description: one of two

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_6.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_5.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by Västgöten [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helligåndskirken_(Flensborg)_9.JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19thC(?) wooden font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 19thC(?) wooden font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: Shows two fonts.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2023 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 19321FLE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Heiliggeistkirche / Helligåndskirken

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Ghost

Church Location: Große Str. 43, 24937 Flensburg, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located 86 km NW of Kiel. The church is in Flensburg old town, in Marienkirchspiel

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Schleswig

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

Date: ca. 1386?

Century and Period: 14th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [basin only]

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]

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.7875, 9.4325

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 47' 15" N, 9° 25' 57" E

UTM: 32U 527 812 6071231

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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