Kalmar no. 6

INFORMATION

FontID: 23471KAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Storkyrkan / Maryakyrkan / Bykyrkan [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas [later St. Mary]
Church Location: [NB: the disappeared church was located in the Gamla staden, west of Kalmar castle; only part of the old cemetery remains now]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Kalmar län
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared church of which only the old cemetery remains is the Gamla staden [old town], off Slottsvägen, W of Kalmar slott
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Norra Möre härad, Kalmar kn
Font Location in Church: in Kalmar's Cathedral
Date: 1661
Century and Period: 17th century(mid)
Church Notes: original church ca. 1200; expanded/modified 14th and 15thC -- badly damaged in the Kalmar War (1611-1613) -- the church was blown up in 1678 -- documented in Martin Olsson's Kalmar gamla stads kyrkor (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1974-1976) [http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/handle/raa/7003?show=full]
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Olsson (1974) as a baptismal font made of metal in 1661 by Christoffer Wilhelm [NB: the term 'dopfunt' is often used to include fonth fonts proper and baptismal dishes used in the Protestant churches of the north; in Swedish a baptismal dish has its own term, 'dopskål', but 'dopfunt' is still used in many sources for the dish that usually fits onto/into the font proper].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.6604, 16.3517
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 39′ 37.44″ N, 16° 21′ 6.12″ E
UTM: 33V 582856 6280401

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, silver
Diameter (includes rim): 32 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 12 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Olsson (1974)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: on the side of the basin
Inscription Text: "Des Herren Obersten Hans Wilhelm von GengeL Sein Gedechtnis"
Inscription Source: Olsson (1974)