Klein Schwechten

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Image Source: Kunstdenkmale der Provinz Sachsen, Band 3, Stendal Land, pp. 125-127, in [www.reiterhof-4eichen.de/Kirche.html] [accessed 2 August 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Meitz, 2003

Image Source: digital photograph in Paul Meitz's Die Feldsteinkirche von Klein Schwechten [www.apenburg.de/Kirchen-Internet/Klein-Schwechten/Kirche-Klein-Schwechten.html] [accessed 2 August 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: inside the church after 1965, but probably not in its original location

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian Schröder, 2015

Image Source: [www.reiterhof-4eichen.de/Kirche.html] [accessed 2 August 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: ca. 1963, before being altered and taken inside the church in 1965

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Image Source: Kunstdenkmale der Provinz Sachsen, Band 3, Stendal Land, pp. 125-127, in [www.reiterhof-4eichen.de/Kirche.html] [accessed 2 August 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: ca, 1963: is the photograph showing the 'trimming' of the old font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: Kunstdenkmale der Provinz Sachsen, Band 3, Stendal Land, pp. 125-127, in [www.reiterhof-4eichen.de/Kirche.html] [accessed 2 August 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19976SCH
Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche St. Laurentius
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: Germany
Location: Stendal, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Rochau (since 2011), 12 km from Stendal
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Halberstadt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [since 1965 [cf. FontNotes]]
Date: ca. 1150-1180?
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
The details below are from a web site set up by (?) Christian Schröder [www.reiterhof-4eichen.de/Kirche.html] [accessed 2 August 2015]; it uses text and images from Kunstdenkmale der Provinz Sachsen, Band 3, Stendal Land, pp. 125-127. Kunstdenkmale... gives the following details of the font: date 12thC; granit; height 88 cm; diameter 104 cm.; location: in front of the church. Kunstdenkmale (ibid.) also mention a Baroque "Taufengel" in this church [cf. infra]. Monolithic baptismal font of roughly barrel shape in this church. An article in the Altmärkischer Hausfreund (v. 1931) shows the monolithic font located outside the church at the time; another photograph in the same source shows the lower part of the font being 'trimmed' [see Images area] by having its broken or irregular base chopped off; it was later moved to an alcove off the nave in 1965. There is no font cover present; there is a metal shelf that is inserted to support the baptismal dish. There is a 'flying' angel holding a baptismal dish (?) inside the church, suspended from the ceiling.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42' 29" N, 11° 50' 19" E
UTM: 32U 691248 5843741

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granit?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: barrel-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 104 cm*
Basin Total Height: 88 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Kunstdenkmale der Provinz Sachsen, Band 3, Stendal Land, pp. 125-127 [NB: the height before the lower part was hacked off? [cf. FontNotes]]