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design element - patterns - ribbed - striated ribs
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2007 by Smial [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Petri_Kirche_Garz_Ruegen_imgp7966.jpg] [accessed 20 July 2014]
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view of font in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19363GAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche / Pfarrkirche Kirche St. Petri / Sankt Petrikirche in Garz auf Rügen
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Wendorfer Str. 16, 18574 Garz/Rügen, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Located off local road L30 [aka Wenderfer Str.], S of the island of Rügen, 12 km from Bergen auf Rügen, 22 km from Stralsund
Ecclesiastic Region: [formerly in the Danish Diocese of Roskilde]
Historical Region: Duchy of Pomerania -- Prussia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1400? [basin only]
Century and Period: [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gateful to Pol Herman for his addional help in documenting this font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Liste der Kirchen auf Rügen [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kirchen_auf_Rügen] [accessed 20 July 2014] as a baptismal font made of granite, probably older than the church itself, which is ca. 1400 [NB: not necessarily; the basin could be of ca, 1400 as well]. The font consists of a round basin with vertical sides and a rounded underbowl, raised on a round moulded pedestal base and an octagonal lower base; the basin has plain sides but the underbowl is deeply-carved with a pattern of broad striated ribs ribs in pairs; the base appears modern. [NB: the font [basin?] is said locally to have been a gift of Heinrich des Löwen [Henry the Lion (1129-1195)], but, given its design, it is an unlikely association]. The baptismal dish in use is early-17th cemtury.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.314916, 13.355633
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 18′ 53.7″ N, 13° 21′ 20.28″ E
UTM: 33U 393032 6019807
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite [basin only]
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round