Gehrden in Zerbst

Results: 45 records

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left - detail

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left - detail

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Scene Description: two scenes share the northwest side of the basin: on the left, the Visitation [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

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]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to the shepherds

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to the shepherds - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

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]

Scene Description: what remains vivisble still allows for the identification of the scene -- on the northeast of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents

Scene Description: on the east side of the font [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt

Scene Description: two scenes share the southeast side of the basin: on the right the Fall of the Idol [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

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]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Fall of the Idol - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

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]

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]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

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

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

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

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

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

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: posted outside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: the old stocks put to a gentler use now

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: posted on the old stocks outside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Scene Description: the chancel and nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: from the southwest, approximately

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: the northeast and east sides are the most damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

view of font in context - west side

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 19447GEH

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche St. Johannis [earlier St. Nicolai]

Church Patron Saints: St. John [earlier dedicated to St. Nicholas?]

Country Name: Germany

Location: Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Sachsen-Anhalt

Directions to Site: Located on a yellow road, 12 km from Zerbst (and in its municipality), S of Leitzkau, 5 km E of the Elbe rive and Schönebeck, SE of Magdeburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, centre aisle, W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Church Notes: original church here perhaps ca. 1200

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.008972, 11.957

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 32.3″ N, 11° 57′ 25.2″ E

UTM: 32U 702937 5766165

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]