Worlitz / Woerlitz / Wörlitz
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 16 September 2014)
Results: 5 records
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © M_H.DE, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by M_H.DE [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wörlitz,St.-Petri-Kirche_und_Bibelturm.jpg] [accessed 6 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Colour photo lithograph, between 1890 and 1905
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Original image: Photochrom print (color photo lithograph). Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-00028 from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photochrom Prints Collection
Copyright Instructions: PD 1923
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katrin Perl, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2009 by Katrin Perl [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Petri_Innenansicht.jpg] [accessed 6 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katrin Perl, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2009 by Katrin Perl [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_St.Petri_innen.jpg] [accessed 6 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 16 September 2014)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19458WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Ev. St. Petrikirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Kirchgasse 34, 06786 Wörlitz, Germany -- Tel.: 034905 20093
Country Name: Germany
Location: Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located S of the Elbe river, between Dessau and Wittenberg, in the municipality of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of the modern font here
Church Notes: original church founded here 1196-1201 by Albrecht der Bär; re-built 1804-1809
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church is modern, octagonal in shape, made of reddish marble; four white cherubs on the stem. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original ca.1200 church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.845342, 12.422448
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 43.23″ N, 12° 25′ 20.81″ E
UTM: 33U 322455 5746978