Luneburg No. 3 / Lueneburg / Lüneburg

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view of church - elevation

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lüneburg, St. Michaeliskirche, Längsschnitt (wohl Entwurf von Paul Heumann zur Umgestaltung der Dächer, 1750/1751), Federzeichnung laviert". -- notice the baptismal font and its counterweighed cover in the nave

Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1750 pen & ink drawing by Paul Heumann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lüneburg_Michaeliskirche_Längsschnitt.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2008 by Eligius Gründelschilf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lüneburg_-_St.-Michaelis_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2010 by DerHexer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_Kirche_in_Lüneburg.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ev. Kirche St. Michael, Innenansicht nach Osten; Lithographie nach Friedrich Soltau, Mitte 19. Jh. (NLA-HSTAH, Bigs. Nr. 11182)" -- notice the baptismal font in the foreground [west end], raised on a three-step plinth (and a dog runing inside the church!)

Image Source: digital image of a mid-19thC lithograph in Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen 22.1. Hansestadt Lüneburg [(NLA-HSTAH, Bigs. Nr. 11182)] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lüneburg_St_Michaelis_Mitte_19_Jh.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2014 by Hajotthu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_Lüneburg_Langhaus_und_Altar_02.JPG] [accessed 16 April 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2014 by Hajotthu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lüneburg_St._Michaeliskirche_Taufbecken@20160422.JPG] [accessed 16 April 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21678LUN

Church/Chapel: St. Michaeliskloster [church of the former Benedictine monastery] [aka Bachkirche St. Michaelis]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Auf dem Michaeliskloster, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Lüneburg, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway 209, 45 km SE of Hamburg -- the monastery is located to the NW of the Lüneburg town centre, near the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Platz

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, to the N of the altar

Date: 1505

Century and Period: 16th century(early), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Church Notes: a moanstery here since 9th-10thC; destroyed in 1371; re-built soon thereafter (1379); present church was originally the church ot the 14thC Benedictine monastery

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in the Deutsche Inschriften Online Projekt [www.inschriften.net/lueneburg-kloester-michaelis-und-luene/inschrift/nr/di024-0062.html#content] [accessed 16 April 2018] as a baptismal font of bronze located in the chancel of the monastery church of St. Michaeliskloster, Lüneburg [DI 24/ Nr. 62]. The font consists of a roughly bucket-shaped basin raised on four standing figures, and mounted on a polygonal wooden plinth on casters obviously of a later period; the basin, which partly glided, is decorated with several thin mouldings; one set frames the running inscription around the upper side of the basin, another set frames the lower side inscription, and a sigle moulding runs around the middle linking with a medallion-like motif, also gilded; there is a shild with a cota of arms at the beginning of the inscription; four standing figures support the basin on their shoulders; the four are very similar, dressed in the same long robes, and have their arms in identical position. There is no cover present. [NB: there is a modern stone font in this church which appears to be the font in use -- cf. ImagesArea]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.249378, 10.401194

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 57.76″ N, 10° 24′ 4.3″ E

UTM: 32U 593489 5900928

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 64 cm*

Basin Total Height: 35 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Deutsche Inschriften Online Projekt [DI 24/ Nr. 62]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German and Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on two lines of the basin sides

Inscription Text: 1.- "+ den ersamen her claesa schomeker doctor vnde pras to lunnen dede gieten dit vat int iaer ons heren mcccccv" 2.- "asperge(s) me do(mi)ne mo(n)dabor / lavabis me (et cetera) miserere mei devs / secvndvm magnam / misericordiam tuam"

Inscription Source: Deutsche Inschriften Online Projekt [DI 24/ Nr. 62]