Poznan No. 1 / Poznań / Posen
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Poznań, ul. Mieszka I. Katedra p.w. śś. Piotra i Pawła, 2 poł. XIII, XIV, XVIII, 1954-1956."
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Image Source: digital photograph 11 November 2012 by Mkos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katedra_p.w._śś._Piotra_i_Pawła_w_Poznaniu.jpg] [accessed 12 June 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Poznań, katedra p.w. śś. Piotra i Pawła, 2 poł. XIII, XIV, XVIII, 1954-1956"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tomasz Stachowiak, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 3 March 2013 by Tomasz Stachowiak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poznań,_Ostrów_Tumski,ul._Mieszka_I,_Katedra_pw._śś_Apostołów_Piotra_i_Pawła,_XI-XX,_A_148_z_14.02.1930_(1).JPG] [accessed 12 June 2022]
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view of church interior - crypt - detail
![Source caption: "Underground of Poznań Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, remanents of preromanesque cathedral" [NB: in the crypt; the lighter shape in the foreground is part of the claimed lime-mortar 10thC font]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220612021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Underground of Poznań Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, remanents of preromanesque cathedral" [NB: in the crypt; the lighter shape in the foreground is part of the claimed lime-mortar 10thC font]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "inside of Cathedral in Poznań"
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view of font - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pozostałości misy chrzcielnej w podziemiach Archikatedry Poznańskiej, gdzie mógł być ochrzczony Mieszko I."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mariochom, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 31 July 2014 by Mariochom [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poznań-rest_of_baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 12 June 2022]
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view of font - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Underground of Poznań Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, hypotetical baptystery." [NB: in the crypt]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24022POZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Bazylika archikatedralna Świętych Apostołów Piotra i Pawła w Poznaniu
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Ostrów Tumski 17, 61-109 Poznań, Poland -- Tel.: +48 61 852 96 42
Country Name: Poland
Location: Wielkopolskie
Directions to Site: Located between highways 92 (N) and A2 (S), about 200 km N of Wroclaw -- The cathedral is located on Ostrów Tumski, on the E banks of the Warta river, NE of the city centre
Font Location in Church: In the crypt
Century and Period: 10th century (?), Medieval
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: pre-Romanesque church ca. 966(?), probably for Dobrawa, wife of Mieszko I; destroyed by raid of Bohemian Duke Bretislav I 1038; re-built thereafter; re-built 14th and 15th(C); destroyed by fire in 1622; re-built thereafter; destroyed by fire again 1772; re-built thereafter; badly (60%) damaged WWII; re-built thereafter
Font Notes:
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During archeological excavation in 1946 the baptismal font from the 10th century was found and it's said it might be the one that was used to baptise Mieszko I (r. 960-992). Braun (1985) and Kloczowski (2000) indicate that Mieszko I was baptised in Poznan; the latter writes that the ancient baptismal font uncovered in Poznan "measures five metres in diameter, is thirty centimetres deep, and is made of lime mortar"; the same source indicates that a canopy over the font was supported on a central column and eight outer shafts. What remains now in the crypt has been claimed by some sources as the "hypothetical baptistery" of the pre-Romanesque church here.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.411389, 16.947778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 41″ N, 16° 56′ 52″ E
UTM: 33U 632480 5808580
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: Other, lime mortar
Diameter (includes rim): 500 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Kloczowski (2000)
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Poland in Christian Civilization, London: Veritas, 1985
Kloczowski, Jerzy, A History of Polish Christianity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000