Malchin

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 5
Scene Description: object claimed to be part of a Romanesque font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Barghaan, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2021 by Uwe Barghaan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malchin_Johanniskirche_Romanischer_Taufstein_20210810.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jörg Blobelt, 2019
Image Source: digital image 26 January 2019 of a 22 September 1987 photograph by Jörg Blobelt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19870922200NR_Malchin_Johanniskirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - patterned
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jörg Blobelt, 2019
Image Source: digital image 26 January 2019 of a 22 September 1987 photograph by Jörg Blobelt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19870922200NR_Malchin_Johanniskirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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human figure - face, head or mask - 5
Scene Description: object claimed to be part of a Romanesque font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Barghaan, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2021 by Uwe Barghaan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malchin_Johanniskirche_Romanischer_Taufstein_20210810.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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symbol - claw - 3
Scene Description: three unidentified animal claws
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jörg Blobelt, 2019
Image Source: digital image 26 January 2019 of a 22 September 1987 photograph by Jörg Blobelt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19870922200NR_Malchin_Johanniskirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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view of base
Scene Description: Source caption: " Malchin, Johanniskirche, romanischer Tausftein" -- object claimed to be part of a Romanesque font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Barghaan, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2021 by Uwe Barghaan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malchin_Johanniskirche_Romanischer_Taufstein_20210810.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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view of base in context
Scene Description: showing the font base found near Kalen Gate; it was later moved to the St. Johannis-Kirche in Malchin [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Torsten Bengelsdorf, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 3 February 2025 by Torsten Bengelsdorf, in the Nordkurier [https://www.nordkurier.de/regional/mecklenburgische-schweiz/raetselhafter-taufstein-hat-seinen-platz-jetzt-in-der-kirche-3292237] [accessed 9 February 2025]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of base in context
Scene Description: showing the font base found near Kalen Gate being moved to the St. Johannis-Kirche in Malchin [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Torsten Bengelsdorf, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 3 February 2025 by Torsten Bengelsdorf, in the Nordkurier [https://www.nordkurier.de/regional/mecklenburgische-schweiz/raetselhafter-taufstein-hat-seinen-platz-jetzt-in-der-kirche-3292237] [accessed 9 February 2025]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Johanniskirche Malchin / Church in Malchin"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schiwago, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 30 March 2008 by Schiwago [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Malchin_03.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: Source caption: "Malchin, Johanniskirche, Marienaltar (15. Jahrhundert)- Schauseite mit geöffneten Innenflügeln"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Barghaan, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2021 by Uwe Barghaan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malchin_Johanniskirche_Marienaltar_1_20210810.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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view of church interior - retable - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Malchin, Johanniskirche, Marienaltar (15. Jahrhundert) - Schauseite mit geöffneten Innenflügeln, Detail im Zentrum"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Barghaan, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2021 by Uwe Barghaan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malchin_Johanniskirche_Marienaltar_2_20210810.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein auf gußeisernem Sockel, klassizistisch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jörg Blobelt, 2019
Image Source: digital image 26 January 2019 of a 22 September 1987 photograph by Jörg Blobelt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19870922200NR_Malchin_Johanniskirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23788MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Johanniskirche Malchin
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: Schweriner Str. 5, 17139 Malchin, Germany -- Tel.: +49 3994 299465
Country Name: Germany
Location: Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Located off (S) road 104, 15 km ESE of Teperow, 55-60 km SE of Rostock
Ecclesiastic Region: [originally Bistums Cammin]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: Romanesque church burned down 1397; new church consecrated 1440; renovated 19thC; 15thC main altar by Lübeck workshop
Font Notes:
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The present font consists of a round basin of polished granite-like pink stone on a slender metal baluster-shaped stem and a round lower base on three animal claws; relatively modern, 17th-18th century? Round low-dome cover. Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch, in his Die Kirche zu Malchin, in Jahrbücher des Vereins für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Band 31 (1866), S. 82-95 [http://mvdok.lbmv.de/mjbrenderer?id=mvdok_document_00002116] [accessed 26 Februuary 2022] mentions a baptismal font of granite decorated with five crude faces (Christ and the Evangelists?) upturned and serving as support to a beam, while the base lies in the churchyard [="In der Kapelle liegt noch der erste Taufstein aus Granit mit 5 rohen Gesichtern (Christus und die Evangelisten?), aus der ersten Zeit des Christenthums, jetzt umgekehrt in der Erde als Basis eines hohen hölzernen Balkens, welcher die Bälgenkammer trägt. Der Fuß liegt auf dem Kirchhofe an der Westwand." The object described above appears to be the five-sided one we see today [cf. ImagesArea] but the faces are displayed correctly with the broader side face down; they would display incorrectly if the object were to be turned upside down; that and the fact that there is no drainage hole in this block suggests that it was not made as font basin originally. Lisch (ibid.) does not mention the later font in use.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 4 February 2025) informs of the discovery of a granit font base originally of a medieval baptismal font; it weighed 330 kg and is suspected to have belonged in a disappeared chapel (?) near Kalen Gate; the base was moved to the St. Johannis-Kirche in Malchin ["Im Januar ist in Malchin bei Baggerarbeiten im Vorgarten der Raiffeisenbank an der Malchiner Postkreuzung der Sockel eines Taufsteines aus Granit aus dem 13. oder 14. Jahrhundert ans Tageslicht gekommen. Im Mittelalter haben vor den Malchiner Stadtmauern sechs oder sieben kleine Kirchen oder Kapellen gestanden. Meistens waren sie verbunden mit Friedhöfen. Bekannt ist, dass es auch vor dem Kalenschen Tor eine Kapelle mit einer Begräbnisstätte gegeben hat. Hier seien die Verstorbenen aus der Achterstraße beigesetzt worden. In den kleinen Gotteshäusern seien auch Taufen vollzogen worden und daher stammt mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit der Taufsockel. Er ist das bisher einzig bekannt gewordene Überbleibsel aus der einstigen Kirchenstätte vor dem Kalenschen Tor. Der 330 Kilogramm schwere Granitstein hat seinen Platz jetzt in der Malchiner St. Johannis-Kirche gefunden, zwischen zwei anderen Tauffüßen, die vermutlich ebenfalls aus dem 12. oder 13. Jahrhundert stammen."] [source: digital photograph 3 February 2025 by Torsten Bengelsdorf, in the Nordkurier [https://www.nordkurier.de/regional/mecklenburgische-schweiz/raetselhafter-taufstein-hat-seinen-platz-jetzt-in-der-kirche-3292237] [accessed 9 February 2025]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.739104, 12.761446
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 44′ 20.77″ N, 12° 45′ 41.21″ E
UTM: 33U 352359 5956821
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal & stone
Font Shape: round (mounte)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century (?)
Apparatus: no
Notes: appears to match the basin design