Krien / Crean / Krynn / Крине

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animal - bird - cockerel?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erell, 2012

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: similar to the other one but without the bird

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - with bird

Scene Description: a cockerel (?) is perched atop the plant

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: between the cross and the lilly

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design element - motifs - vine - bearing fruit

Scene Description: to the left of the cross

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symbol - cross - Latin

Scene Description: peculiarly stepped and adorned

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symbol - star - 6-point

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: the 'X' indicates the spot where the font was found semi-buried in 1936

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Image Source: drawing by Hugo Lemcke reproduced in Kusch (1982)

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view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: Renaissance pulpit dated to 1602

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view of font

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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: the related object now at the Kulturhistorische Museum in Stralsund; notice the similarity of the motifs with those on the Krien 'font'

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view of font or stoup - upper view

Scene Description: the related object now at the Kulturhistorische Museum in Stralsund; notice the similarity of the motifs with those on the Krien 'font'

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19337KRI
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche Krien
Church Location: Rundstraße 59, DE-17391 Krien, Germany -- Tel.: 039723 20365
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Located near Steinmocker and Wegezin, in Anklam-Land
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: church first documented ca. 1280, but may have replaced and earlier building here; expanded nave 14thC; heating added 1936; extended renovation 1966
The present font is noted and illustrated in Kusch (1982); it is a block of granite that was discovered during the installation of heating inside the church in 1936, found semi-buried in clay and water beneath the east end, just over the south wall of the nave; the lower end of the font was damaged in the retrieval process. It was apparently used as a holy-water stoup until its burial, whenever that was, but was installed as baptismal font in the 1966 renovation of the church. The object is roughly rectangular with rounded angles, the sides decorated with crude carvings: large beaded Latin cross, floral motifs looking like stylised lillies to the sides of it, one with a bird on it; on one side a large rooster-like bird faces a 6-point star. The upper part of the basin appears to be divided: one larger basin with one or two [surface is damaged] smaller ones. Local information has that the stone was originally a Slavic sacrificial stone for pagan rites, but was later converted into a baptismal font, and a smaller vessel with similar symbols was originally located in nearby Dersewitz [or Штольпе / Stolpe?], but was moved to the Kulturhistorische Museum in Stralsund; the motifs used on the decoration on the sides of this vessel are practically identical to those on the Krien object, likely executed by the same hand.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.831132, 13.447528
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 49′ 52.07″ N, 13° 26′ 51.1″ E
UTM: 33U 397829 5965851

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 22 cm*
Basin Total Height: 77 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 36 x 55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Kusch (1982)

REFERENCES

Kusch, Walter, "Ein merkwürdiger Taufstein", Gesellschaft für pommersche Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Marburg: N. G. Elwert, 1982