Rostock No. 4 / Roztoc / Roztok

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Results: 6 records

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Image Source: Foto Marburg, Aufnahme-Nr. KBB 2.902; Microfiche-Scan mi02804c03;; Aufn.-Datum: 1885/1920; Repro (1977/1982); Objekt 20763685 [www.bildindex.de/obj20763685.html#|home] [accessed 21 September 2014]

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human figure - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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inscription

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the restored church in 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2009 by Schiwago [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rostock_Nikolaikirche_Suedansicht.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.5

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: 1907 -- Source caption: "Rostock Wallstrasse (heute Ernst-Barlach-Straße), Nikolaikirche"

Image Source: 1907 postcard [author unknown]; in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rostock_Wallstrasse_Nikolaikirche_1907.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font was destroyed in 1942

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19437ROS

Church/Chapel: Nikolaikirche / Evangelische Kirche Sankt Nikolai [now a concert hall]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Bei der Nikolaikirche, Rostock 18055, Germany -- Tel.: +49 (0) 38 14 93 41

Country Name: Germany

Location: Rostock, Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Located 15 km S of the Baltic coast

Date: 1301-1400?

Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic

Church Notes: church originally ca. 1230

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Taufbecken aus Metallguss (Bronzefünten, Messingfünten) [www.grabinski-online.de/glocken/Fuenten.html] [accessed 21 September 2014] as a baptismal font made of bronze between 1260 and 1280, and destroyed in 1942. A B&W photograph of this font [Aufnahme-Nr. KBB 2.902] survives in the Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur [www.bildindex.de/obj20763685.html#|home] [accessed 21 September 2014]. The font consisted of a bucked-shaped basin decorated on the sides with window tracery; on the lower side was a running inscription; the basin was raised on a central round shaft that appears to be moulded, and four (?) standing figures arranged at 90-degree angles. The font cover was a low dome probably of a later date, decorated with a big fleuron and smaller heraldic devices around its base; on the fleuron was a fat dove finial; the cover had two large handles at opposite ends for manual lifting. Both font and cover appear to have been painted. The lower supporting figures may have represented wildmen, like those on the font at Petrikirche, also in Rostock.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.087806, 12.146533

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 5′ 16.1″ N, 12° 8′ 47.52″ E

UTM: 33U 313374 5997056

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: around the lower side of the basin

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]