Halle / Hala Saxonum
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2020
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view of font in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allexkoch, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2014 by Allexkoch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HalleMarienkircheInnen_02.JPG] [accessed 14 April 2018]
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inscription - partial
![[cf. InscriptionArea]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200206015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. InscriptionArea]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2020
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book
Scene Description: seen here in the arch to the right of Christ
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2020
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Virgin Mary - standing
Scene Description: seen here in the arch to the left of Christ
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Christ - standing - standing - bearded - with processional cross in left hand - right hand raised in benediction
Scene Description: seen here in the centre arch
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - cinquefoiled intrados - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: the arcade is highly stylised, especially the columns
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12 - standing
Scene Description: each carrying his identifying symbol
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael aus Halle, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 February 2014 by Michael aus Halle [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marktkirche_-_panoramio_(3).jpg] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael aus Halle, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2014 by Michael aus Halle [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marktkirche_-_panoramio_(9).jpg] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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view of font in context - east side
Scene Description: the font appears not to be secured to the ground, so the sides may change orientation if/when it is moved
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Bakker, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2011 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marktkirche_halle_1.jpg] [accesed 14 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![with the font in the centre aisle, rowards the far [east] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180413035_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the font in the centre aisle, rowards the far [east] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Bakker, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2011 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marktkirche_halle_2.jpg] [accesed 14 April 2018]
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human figure - standing - 4
Scene Description: the two figures visible on this side appear to be crowned females -- they have lost the objects they originally held in their hands
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2020
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human figure - standing - 4
Scene Description: mixed figures: two of them appear to be crowned women; another, seen here on the right, a bearded male; another, seen here on the left, a youth carrying a book -- their hands are in a position that suggests they may have been carrying something originally
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2020
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21671HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1430
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ludolf von Braunschweig and his son Heinrich
Church / Chapel Name: Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen / Liebfrauenkirche / Marienkirche
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: present church built 1529-1554 replacing two earlier churches (St Gertrude's dating since 11thC but demolished 1530, and St Mary's)
Church Address: An der Marienkirche, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
Site Location: Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Altstadt Halle, just E of the Marktplatz, 35 km NW of Leipzig
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Magdeburg
Additional Comments: re-cycled font? (was this font from one of the demolished earlier churches here?) -- disappeared fonts? (the early ones from the demolished churches of St Gertrude and St Mary)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of bronze dated by an inscription to 1430, and to its makers, Ludolf von Braunschweig and his son Heinrich, of Magdeburg; the roughly bucket-shaped basin is decvorated with an arcade of fourteen arches that house statues of Christ, Mary and twelve Apostles, these carrying their identifying symbols; around the lower basin side is an inscription in German [cf. supra]; the base consists of four standing figures: a bearded man, a clean-face young man and two female figures wearing crowns; the feet are attached to a ring that serves a lower base. Described in Deutsche Inschriften Online [http://www.inschriften.net/halle-an-der-saale/inschrift/nr/di085-0027.html#content] [accessed 14 April, 2018]: "Taufbecken aus Bronze (Fünte) mit hohem, reich profilierten, ringförmigen Fuß, auf dem vier Heilige stehen (H.: 35,5–36,5 cm): ein bärtiger Mann mit Buch in der linken und ein jugendlicher Diakon mit Buch in der rechten Hand sowie zwei gekrönte Frauen, die wie der Diakon ehemals wohl Palmzweige in den Händen hielten. Auf ihnen ruht ein schwach konisches, reliefgeschmücktes Becken mit einem abgesetzten breiten Rand. Dicht über dem Boden umzieht die Außenseite des Beckens ein erhabener Meistervermerk, eingefaßt von zwei Stegpaaren. Darüber erheben sich 14 Rundbogenarkaden, besetzt mit rundbogigen Maßwerkfriesen, die Reliefs von Christus, Maria und den Aposteln überfangen (H.: 19,5 cm). Zur rechten Seite Christi steht Maria, zur linken Petrus. / Maße: H.: 111,5 cm; D.: 88,5 cm (Becken), ca. 85 cm (Fuß); Bu.: 6 cm." This source suggests the font may have been from one of the two earlier churches in Halle [cf. ChurchNotes].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.482556, 11.968094
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 28′ 57.2″ N, 11° 58′ 5.14″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 111.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Deutsche Inschriften Online [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German and Latin
Inscription Location: around the lower basin side
Inscription Text: "· an(n)oa) · d(omi)ni · m · cccc · xxx · per · me · lvdolfvs · va(n) · brv(n)svik · vnde · sin · sone · hi(n)rik · ge · ghote(n) · to · magedeborch"
Inscription Source: Deutsche Inschriften Online [cf. FontNotes]