Westerhusen / Westerhüsen / Magdeburg-Westerhüsen
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double row of arcada (up and down)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olaf2, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2007 by Olaf2 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Westerhüsen.JPG] [accessed 4 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the restored outer shell of the tower is all that remains of the former parish church building destroyed in WWII; it is used for summer services only
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view of font - fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olaf2, 2007
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view of font in context
Scene Description: view of the former nave, looking west into the tower -- the restored outer shell of the tower is all that remains of the former parish church building destroyed in WWII; it is used for summer services only
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olaf2, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2007 by Olaf2 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gewölbe_Westerhüsen.JPG] [accessed 4 February 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20334WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Sankt-Stephanus Evangelische Sommerkirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Eisenacher Straße 2, Westerhüsen, 39122 Magdeburg, Germany -- Tel.: 03 91 - 4 04 28 77
Country Name: Germany
Location: Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Westerhüsen was an independent village and municipality; it is now a district of Magdeburg, up on a hill on the left bank of the Elbe river
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Magdeburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the surviving tower
Church Notes: former Romanesque parish church badly damaged in WWII; the tower was restored and serves now as summer parish church of the area [Kirchspiel Magdeburg-Südost]
Font Notes:
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Like the church of Sankt-Stephanus itself the medieval baptismal font of Westerhüsen has survived only in a fragment, cracked, blackened by fire and with one third of its side missing now; it is a tub-shaped basin with rounded sides decorated with a double row of blind round arches. We have no information on when the damage to the font happened; the church itself was practically destroyed in WWII, but the font may have been damaged earlier as well as at the time.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.06547, 11.67878
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 55.69″ N, 11° 40′ 43.61″ E
UTM: 32U 683615 5771707
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining