Nordhausen No. 2 / Nordhusa / Nordhuse / Nordhusen / Northusia

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21703NOR
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Blasii-Altendorf
Church Patron Saints: St. Blaise [aka Biagio, Blas, Blásios, Blasius]
Church Location: Barfüßerstraße 2, 99734 Nordhausen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 3631 981640
Country Name: Germany
Location: Nordhausen, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the highways 4-38 crossroads, 60 km E of Göttingen, 80 km W of Halle (Saale)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1591
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Late Gothic
Church Notes: earlier church probably 1220 documented 1234; much modified through the centuries; seriously damaged in Allied bombings of 4 April 1945; restored 1949, 2004, 2014-2015
A baptismal font in Nordhausen St, Blasii is mentioned in Benjamin Gottfried Weinart's 'Versuch einer Litteratur der Sächsischen Geschichte und Staatskunde [...]' (Dresden und Leipzig, 1790), p. 735. The wooden baptismal font in this church was donated by Ottilie Ernst, and made by Lorentz Fronhausen, a local woodcarver and carpenter.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.504741, 10.794531
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 17.07″ N, 10° 47′ 40.31″ E
UTM: 32U 624546 5707483

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood