Berlin No. 25 / Heiligensee / Hyelegense
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirchenschiff der Dorfkirche Heiligensee"
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 24 March 2011 by Bodo Kubrak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorfkirche_Heiligensee_2.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dorfkirche Heiligensee auf der Dorfaue"
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 March 2011 by Bodo Kubrak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorfkirche_Heiligensee_1.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2022]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Innenraum der Dorfkirche Heiligensee, fotografiert von Außen durch die geöffneten Türen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 March 2011 by Bodo Kubrak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorfkirche_Heiligensee_3.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2022]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harry C. Suchland, 1986
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Harry C. Suchland in Alte Kirchen in Berlin (Berlin: Wichern Verlag, 2nd edition, 1986)
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Das Taufbecken von 1647 in einer Ansicht con 1958"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank-Max "Postmaxe" Polzin, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1958 photograph [source not given] reproduced in Frank-Max "Postmaxe" Polzin [https://www.postmaxe.de/geschichten/heilige-heilung.html] [accessed 15 May 2022]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harry C. Suchland, 1986
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Harry C. Suchland in Alte Kirchen in Berlin (Berlin: Wichern Verlag, 2nd edition, 1986)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 23959BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche Heiligensee
Church Location: Alt-Heiligensee 43, 13503 Berlin, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Berlin, Berlin
Directions to Site: Located off the Alt-Heilengsee, W of county road 111, in the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf, just E of the Brandenburg-Berlin border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end
Date: 1647
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Church Notes: original wooden church ca. 1300; 15thC church; much modified thereafter
Font Notes:
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Illustrated by Harry C. Suchland in Alte Kirchen in Berlin (Berlin: Wichern Verlag, 2nd edition, 1986). Noted and illustrated in Frank-Max "Postmaxe" Polzin [https://www.postmaxe.de/geschichten/heilige-heilung.html] [accessed 15 May 2022] as a baptismal font of 1647 ["In ihrem Innern birgt sie ein Taufbecken von 1647"] [NB: it is not clear from the sources above whether the metal baptismal dish and the wooden stand are both from that date; the date 1647 may be from the baptismal dish].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.607696, 13.212615
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 27.71″ N, 13° 12′ 45.41″ E
UTM: 33U 378969 5830131
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood and metal, brass [baptismal dish only]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with finial