Stolberg / Harz
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angel - cherub - holding musical instrument - with book
Scene Description: the instrument looks like a lute
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernhard Langer, 1953
Image Source: photograph taken 1953 by Bernhard Langer in Stolberger Geshichte Online [www.stolberger-geschichte.de/martini/pages/007.htm] [accessed 13 July 2014]
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes & Inscription]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernhard Langer, 1953
Image Source: photograph taken 1953 by Bernhard Langer in Stolberger Geshichte Online [www.stolberger-geschichte.de/martini/pages/007.htm] [accessed 13 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernhard Langer, 1953
Image Source: photograph taken 1953 by Bernhard Langer in Stolberger Geshichte Online [www.stolberger-geschichte.de/martini/pages/007.htm] [accessed 13 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 19345STO
Church/Chapel: Martinkirche / Pfarrkirche St.-Martini zu Stolberg
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Am Markt, 06547 Stolberg (Harz), Germany -- Tel.: 034654/855334
Country Name: Germany
Location: Mansfeld-Südharz, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located 13 km NE of Nordhausen, 27 km W of Sangerhausen, in the municipality of Südharz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1599
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Renaissance
Church Notes: church originally Romanesque of the 11thC; later Gothic church of the 14thC, with 15thC modifications -- Martin Luther preached from its pulpit 21 April 1525
Baptismal font in alabaster and marble, the gift of Gräfin Anna in 1599 [www.stadt-stolberg.de/Die_Martinikirche] and [www.stolberger-geschichte.de/martini/pages/007.htm] [accessed 12 July 2014]. The basin is hexagonal and decorated with putti-like cherubs holding musical instruments and books, as well as one side that records the date and donation of the font by countess Anna Gravin in a German-language inscription; colonnettes at the corners of the basin; base has central hexagonal shaft with large scroll motifs, and six outer baluster-shaped colonnettes; plain hexagonal lower base. There is no cover apparent, but the inner basin has a metal lining insert. It originally had a cover that was raised and lower via a pulley, but the rope is said to have broken and the cover destroyed in April 1600.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 34' 25.64" N,
10° 57' 16.07" E
UTM: 32U 635151 5714645
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: in a cartouche on the basin side
Inscription Text: "DAS WOLGEBORNE - VND - / EDLE - FREVLEIN - FREVLEIN - ANNA - GRAVIN - ZV STOLBERG / KOENIGSTEIN - RVUTSCHFORT - / WERNIGERODA - VND - HONSTEIN / FREVLEIN - ZV - EPSTEIN - / MVNTZENBERG - BREVBERG / LOHRA - VND - CLETTENBRG / HAT - DISEN - DAVF - STEIN - / SETZEN - LASEN / ANNO 1599"
Inscription Source: Image area
