Kreischa
Image copyright © Andreas Werner, 1922
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design element - architectural - arch-head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Werner, 1922
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Andreas Werner in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde (Bereich Kreischa-Seifersdorf) [https://www.kirchspiel-kreischa-seifersdorf.de/ueber-uns/kirchen/kreischa/] [accessed 9 July 2022]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - interersecting arch-heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Werner, 1922
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Andreas Werner in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde (Bereich Kreischa-Seifersdorf) [https://www.kirchspiel-kreischa-seifersdorf.de/ueber-uns/kirchen/kreischa/] [accessed 9 July 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Werner, 1922
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Andreas Werner in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde (Bereich Kreischa-Seifersdorf) [https://www.kirchspiel-kreischa-seifersdorf.de/ueber-uns/kirchen/kreischa/] [accessed 9 July 2022]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Werner, 1922
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Andreas Werner in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde (Bereich Kreischa-Seifersdorf) [https://www.kirchspiel-kreischa-seifersdorf.de/ueber-uns/kirchen/kreischa/] [accessed 9 July 2022]
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design element - patterns - piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Werner, 1922
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Andreas Werner in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde (Bereich Kreischa-Seifersdorf) [https://www.kirchspiel-kreischa-seifersdorf.de/ueber-uns/kirchen/kreischa/] [accessed 9 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kreischa, Evangelische Pfarrkirche, 16. Jahrhundert (Deutschland, Sachsen)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lysippos, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 2 February 2010 by Lysippos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreischa,_church.jpg] [accessed 9 July 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Werner, 1922
Image Source: digital photograph by Andreas Werner in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde (Bereich Kreischa-Seifersdorf) [https://www.kirchspiel-kreischa-seifersdorf.de/ueber-uns/kirchen/kreischa/] [accessed 9 July 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 24099KRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Pfarrkirche Kreischa
Church Location: Kirchweg 1A-C, 01731 Kreischa, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Sachsen
Directions to Site: Located off local road S183 [aka Lungkwitzer Str.], 12-13 km S of Dresden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N side of the chancel
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
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: original 12thC Romanesque church re-built 1516; documented 1346; modified 17th, 18th, 19th and 20thC
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde (Bereich Kreischa-Seifersdorf) [https://www.kirchspiel-kreischa-seifersdorf.de/ueber-uns/kirchen/kreischa/] [accessed 9 July 2022] reports a baptismal font made of sandstone in the 13th century period bearing traces of paint; chalice-shaped and decorated with intersecting arch-heads and floral motifs on the basin, painted arch-heads on the underbowl, piping on the stem and mouldings on the lower base [="Taufstein aus dem 13. Jahrhundert [...] Die außergewöhnliche spätgotische Sandsteintaufe ist kelchförmig gestaltet mit Resten einer farbigen Fassung. Der Säulenfuß ist an der Basis mit gemalten Blüten verziert, der Schaft mit Stabwerk, das sich unterhalb des Beckens verschränkt und in Spitzbögen führt, darüber sind Kreuzbögen mit Lilien angeordnet"]. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.94403, 13.76166
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 38.51″ N, 13° 45′ 41.98″ E
UTM: 33U 413003 5644331
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round