Eutin
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![at the east end of the nave, right [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180425006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, right [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Agnete, 2015
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view of basin - upper view
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: with the date of the font, 1511
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inscription - partial
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design element - architectural - buttress - with pinnacle
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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - pinnacled - crocketed
Scene Description: only one is occupied by a statue now, but the others may have also had them originally
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - pinnavcled - buttress
Scene Description: capped buttresses instead of columns
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: above the arcade
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - northeast end - detail
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view of church exterior - northeast end
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view of church exterior - east end
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view of church exterior - northeast view - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail
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view of church exterior - northwest end
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa-Maria Rinkl, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2016 by Rosa-Maria Rinkl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eutin,_St._Michael.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2018]
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board
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view of church interior - reredos
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view of church interior - apse - painting - detail
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view of church interior - east end
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view of church interior - east end
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of church interior - chancel
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information
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human figure - kneeling
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human figure - kneeling
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human figure - kneeling - 3
Scene Description: the figures kneel on one knee and have their hands together in prayer
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21694EUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2023-06-19
Font Date: 1511
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-Lutherische St.-Michaelis-Kirche (Eutin)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: original church a mid-12thC wooden chapel; present church ca. 1180-1230; became collegiate in 1309; secularised 1803; reinstated soon thereafter
Church Address: Schlossstraße 2, 23701 Eutin, Germany -- Tel.: 04521-70130
Site Location: Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) highway 76, on the W banks of the Grosser Eutimer See, 40 km N of Lübeck
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Lübeck
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of bronze dated by an inscription to 1511; the font cosnists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with an arcade of pointed arch-heads with trefoiled intrados; the arches, which rest on buttresses and not columns, are blank except for one that houses a Christ in a crucifixion stance but without a cross; the basin has mouldings at both ends, and it is raised on three human figures kneeling on one knee, their hands together in prayer. No font cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 605635 5999989
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.137149, 10.616913
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 8′ 13.73″ N, 10° 37′ 0.89″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 2 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 72 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*
Basin Depth: 64 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 55 cm*
Basin Total Height: 69 cm*
Height of Base: 52-53 cm* [each of three figures]
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm*
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: just below the upper rim on the basin sides
Inscription Text: "[?] + An[n]o + D[omi]ni + 1511 + [?]"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]