Gehrden in Zerbst
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Results: 45 records
B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left - detail
![on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927076_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left - detail
![on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left
![on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927046_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing
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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing
![two scenes share the northwest side of the basin: on the left, the Visitation [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927049_compressed.png)
Scene Description: two scenes share the northwest side of the basin: on the left, the Visitation [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Joseph sitting in a chair - with staff - wearing Jew hat - detail
Scene Description: conflation of the Nativity with the Dream of Joseph
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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Joseph sitting in a chair - with staff - wearing Jew hat
Scene Description: two scenes share the northwest side of the basin: on the right, the Nativity [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to the shepherds - detail
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B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to the shepherds
![on the north side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927053_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - enthroned figure of Virgin Mary with Child
![what remains vivisble still allows for the identification of the scene -- on the northeast of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927056_compressed.png)
Scene Description: what remains vivisble still allows for the identification of the scene -- on the northeast of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents - detail
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B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents
![on the east side of the font [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927058_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the east side of the font [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt - detail
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B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt
![two scenes share the southeast side of the basin: on the right the Fall of the Idol [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927061_compressed.png)
Scene Description: two scenes share the southeast side of the basin: on the right the Fall of the Idol [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Fall of the Idol - detail
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B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Fall of the Idol
Scene Description: two scenes share the southeast side of the basin: on the on the left, the Massacre of the Innocent [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail
![on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927068_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail
![on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927067_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail
![on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927066_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple
![on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927065_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B10: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in a font - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - dove present - attendants holding clothes - detail
![on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927073_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B10: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in a font - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - dove present - attendants holding clothes - detail
![on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927072_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B10: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in a font - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - dove present - attendants holding clothes - detail
![on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927071_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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B10: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in a font - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - dove present - attendants holding clothes
![the two attendants are not winged; the font is of the traditional hemispherical type -- on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140927070_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the two attendants are not winged; the font is of the traditional hemispherical type -- on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]
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view of font - southwest side
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view of font - south side
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view of font - southeast side
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view of font - east side
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view of font - northeast side
Scene Description: the northeast and east sides are the most damaged
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view of font - north side
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view of font - northwest side
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view of font - west side
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view of font - east side
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
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view of church exterior - east view - detail
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view of church exterior - east view - detail
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
Scene Description: the chancel and nave
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: from the southwest, approximately
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information
Scene Description: posted on the old stocks outside the church
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information
Scene Description: the old stocks put to a gentler use now
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Scene Description: posted outside the church
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view of font in context - west side
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19447GEH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2014-08-10
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Dorfkirche St. Johannis [earlier St. Nicolai]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, centre aisle, W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John [earlier dedicated to St. Nicholas?]
Church Notes: original church here perhaps ca. 1200
Church Address: Pfarrbereich Loburg-Leitzkau II, Ringstraße, 39264 Gehrden, Germany
Site Location: Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the Schulstrasse, in the municipality and 12 km NW of Zerbst, 5 km E of the Elbe river and Schönebeck, SE of Magdeburg
Additional Comments: diasappeared font? (the one from the original ca. 1200 (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of sandstone; it consists of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, a centre ring moulding and a splaying octagonal lower base; the basin has a total of ten scenes in eight sides framed by columns with capitals and bases: [starting on the east side, L->R]: 1)Massacre of the Innocent; 2)Flight to Egypt [conflated with] 3)Fall of the Idol; 4)Presentation at the Temple; 5)Baptism of Christ in a font; 6)Annunciation to Mary; 7)Visitation [conflated with] 8)Nativity; 9)Annunciation to the Shepherds; 10)Adoration of the Magi; the conflated scenes share a single frame/side; the rounded underbowl has large quatrefoils motifs in it; the basin is in a very poor state of conservation, the font obviously having been broken at some point, and later put together again with dark cement. There is no font cover now, although part of the damage to the font relates to metal staples that secured an old cover. A metal insert on the upper rim seves to hold up the baptismal dish used for baptisms now.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 702937 5766165
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.008972, 11.957
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 32.3″ N, 11° 57′ 25.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 13-17 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 74-75 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 100-107 cm
Basin Depth: 38 cm
Basin Total Height: 56 cm
Height of Base: 33 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]