Braunschweig No. 4 / Brunesguik / Brunswick / Brunswiek

Results: 61 records

B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

there are six persons altogether in the scene: Christ, Mary, John and three 'officials'; two of these were distinctive headgear and clothing of high office; the last figure, at the extreme right, is obviously a soldier or armed guard

Scene Description: there are six persons altogether in the scene: Christ, Mary, John and three 'officials'; two of these were distinctive headgear and clothing of high office; the last figure, at the extreme right, is obviously a soldier or armed guard

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes - detail

Scene Description: notice the container in John's left hand; not just water?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes - detail

Scene Description: the angel is rendered wingless, as are all of them on this font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple

Scene Description: Child Christ on the altar; two bearded figures on the right; three female figures on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Scene Description: Anna and Simeon touching Christ Child?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - penned animals in stable - Adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds?

a complex and probably conflated rendering of both the Nativity and the Adoration of the Shepherds; the Child is at Mary's breast in bed; Joseph (?) readies food to the right of the bed; the two animals are right behind the bed, and a very realistic fence separates them from two male figures watching the scene at the far back; to the left of them a boulder or mountain

Scene Description: a complex and probably conflated rendering of both the Nativity and the Adoration of the Shepherds; the Child is at Mary's breast in bed; Joseph (?) readies food to the right of the bed; the two animals are right behind the bed, and a very realistic fence separates them from two male figures watching the scene at the far back; to the left of them a boulder or mountain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - penned animals in stable - Adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds? - detail

Scene Description: the likely conflation with the adoring shepherds beyond the beautifully-rendered fence

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - penned animals in stable - Adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds? - detail

Scene Description: Mary feeding the Child in bed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - penned animals in stable - Adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds? - detail

Scene Description: Joseph? -- notice the radiating Sun on the forehead of the ox

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - penned animals in stable - Adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds? - detail

Scene Description: Joseph (?) readying food in a wooden long-handled container -- notice his double-goatee beard

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the left, Gabriel to the right

Scene Description: Gabriel holds up a scroll bearing an inscription in Gothic lettering; no wings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the left, Gabriel to the right - Mary wih lectern

Scene Description: notice Mary's missing right hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B06: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Pentecost - the apostles, inspired by the Holy Ghost, address the representatives of the nations - Glossolalia - detail

Scene Description: Mary and disciples? Acts 1:14?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B06: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Pentecost - the apostles, inspired by the Holy Ghost, address the representatives of the nations - Glossolalia - detail

Scene Description: Mary and disciples? Acts 1:14?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B07: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension - Apostles present

there are thirteen figures standing and looking upwards towards the ascending Christ (of whom only the lower garment and naked feet are visible); twelve of the present appear to be male; one, in the foreground, hands together in prayer, is a righly-dressed woman [NB: the canonical Gospels and the Acts do not specify who was in attendance at the Ascension, and its artistic depiction varies widely)

Scene Description: there are thirteen figures standing and looking upwards towards the ascending Christ (of whom only the lower garment and naked feet are visible); twelve of the present appear to be male; one, in the foreground, hands together in prayer, is a righly-dressed woman [NB: the canonical Gospels and the Acts do not specify who was in attendance at the Ascension, and its artistic depiction varies widely)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

B07: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension - Apostles present - detail

Scene Description: notice the imprint of Christ's feet on the raised ground at the centre of the scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

Human figure - male - standing - with moustache

Scene Description: the armour-like leggings on the three figures are probably not meant to be so

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

Human figure - male - standing - with moustache

Scene Description: the armour-like leggings on the three figures are probably not meant to be so

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

Human figure - male - standing - with moustache

Scene Description: the armour-like leggings on the three figures are probably not meant to be so

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

Human figure - male - standing - with moustache

Scene Description: the armour-like leggings on the three figures are probably not meant to be so

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

angel - holding musical instrument - 8

each of them with a different object or instrument; they are part of the columns on which the arch-heads rest -- this one stands between the Crucifixion (right) and the Baptism of Christ (left)

Scene Description: each of them with a different object or instrument; they are part of the columns on which the arch-heads rest -- this one stands between the Crucifixion (right) and the Baptism of Christ (left)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - columns with capitals and bases - pinnacled columns

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - Ogee

an example of the arch-heads of the arcade -- this one as atop the Presentation at the Temple scene (the top of Christ Child is partially visible)

Scene Description: an example of the arch-heads of the arcade -- this one as atop the Presentation at the Temple scene (the top of Christ Child is partially visible)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: larger quatrefoil-in-a-square, with trefoils in the spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: a cpmplex set of traceried panels that mixes with the crocketed arch-heads and the pinnacles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: on the left, the date of the font: 1441

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

inscription - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

inscription - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

inscription - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: on the railing [schmiedeeisernes Gitter] is the date 1675, when it was added to the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the drain whole may not be original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

the font is used now, as it is customary in ther North, with an insert in which the baptismal water is poured; in this case, the baptismal dish is very small (usually it tends to be as wide as the full opening of the basin)

Scene Description: the font is used now, as it is customary in ther North, with an insert in which the baptismal water is poured; in this case, the baptismal dish is very small (usually it tends to be as wide as the full opening of the basin)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy

Scene Description: the tiered wooden canopy of 1616 from the Jürgen Röttger workshop

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: showing the nave and chancel portals

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Scene Description: the twin towers linked by a saddle roof

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2007 by Kudalla (Heinz Kudalla, Braunschweig) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinikirche_02_1a.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: The copyright holder of this file allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed. Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is permitted

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Copperplate engraving of the Old Town Market in Braunschweig with St. Martin's church"

Image Source: 1776 engraving by Anton August Beck [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BS_Altstadtmarkt_Kupfer.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Martini Braunschweig, Germany, seen from tower of St. Andreas"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2010 by Vanellus Foto [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Martini_von_St._Andreas.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2014]

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

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: at the far east is the Baroque altar of 1725 by Anton Detlev Jenner

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: at the west end is the mid-17thC organ by Jonas Weigel and Friedrich Stellwagen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - south aisle - chapel

Scene Description: Annenkapelle, the baptismal chapel since 1899, when the font was moved into it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - sides 1-2

Scene Description: The Crucifixion and the Baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the 1675 wrought-iron latticed enclosure inside Annenkapelle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 19443BRA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche Sankt Martini [aka Martinikirche]

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: An der Martinikirche 10, 38100 Braunschweig, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Braunschweig, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located near the old market

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in Annenkapelle, S side, W end, since 1899

Date: 1441

Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Barthold Sprangken

Font Notes: Click to view

On-site baptismal font made of bronze in 1441, as dated in an inscription on the upper rim of the basin; it consists of a round basin with slightly tapering sides, almost cylindrical, the sides of which are decorated with seven scenes of the life of Christ [L->R from the east side]: 1)Crucifixion; Baptism of Christ; 3)Presentation at the Temple; 4)Nativity; 5)Annunciation to Mary; 6)Pentecost?; 7)Ascension of Christ; these scenes are framed by a complex arcade of Ogee arch-heads on columns with capitals and base topped by pinnacles; in each column is a standing angel holding an object, most of them [all?] musical instruments; the lower part of the basin has a band of trefoil and quatrefoil motifs; below it is a band of foliage motif; the basin rests on four standing male figures arranged at 90-degree angles; the figures wear moustaches. Curiously, the angels that are part of the scenes are rendered wingless on this font, whereas those that are part of the columns have wings. The font is surrounded by a railing that opens at a gate; this "schmiedeeisernes Gitter" bears the date of 1675. There is a Baroque tiered canopy, of painted and gilded wood, above the font, suspended from the ceiling and lowered by means of a pulley; it is dated 1616. The well of the basin is no longer used for baptisms; instead, as is common in these areas, a baptismal dish is fitted onto an insert that supports it; this dish is very small, unlike most of the ones used in the area.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.2625, 10.516389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 45″ N, 10° 30′ 59″ E

UTM: 32U 603488 5791318

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 101.5 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 111.5 cm

Basin Depth: 70 cm

Height of Basin Side: 71 cm [64+7 cm of frill]

Height of Base: 51 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: on the upper surface of the rim; there is an inscription also on the scroll held by Gabriel in the Annunciation to Mary scene

Inscription Text: [? ][1441] [?]

Inscription Source: Images area

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1616

Material: wood

Apparatus: yes; pulley

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]