Eutin

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2023 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2023 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - pinnavcled - buttress

Scene Description: capped buttresses instead of columns

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Agnete [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_(Eutin)_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2018]

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design element - architectural - buttress - with pinnacle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Agnete [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_(Eutin)_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Agnete [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_(Eutin)_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2018]

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: above the arcade

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Agnete [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_(Eutin)_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2018]

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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

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Agnete [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_(Eutin)_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2018]

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information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

inscription - detail

Scene Description: with the date of the font, 1511

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2023 by BSI

inscription - partial

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - east end

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view of church exterior - northeast end

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view of church exterior - northeast end - detail

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view of church exterior - northeast view - detail

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2017 by Schnobby [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eutin,_Turm_St._Michaelis.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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 exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - apse - painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Agnete [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_(Eutin).JPG] [accessed 25 April 2018]

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view of church interior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - east end

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - reredos

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, right [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Agnete [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michaelis_(Eutin)_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2018]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2023 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 21694EUT

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische St.-Michaelis-Kirche (Eutin)

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Schlossstraße 2, 23701 Eutin, Germany -- Tel.: 04521-70130

Country Name: Germany

Location: Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, S side

Date: 1511

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

Church Notes: original church a mid-12thC wooden chapel; present church ca. 1180-1230; became collegiate in 1309; secularised 1803; reinstated soon thereafter

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.137149, 10.616913

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 8′ 13.73″ N, 10° 37′ 0.89″ E

UTM: 32U 605635 5999989

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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 Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: just below the upper rim on the basin sides

Inscription Text: "[?] + An[n]o + D[omi]ni + 1511 + [?]"