Grossengottern No. 1 / Großengottern
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: a band of all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 July 2021 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Großengottern_St._Walpurgis_08.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2022]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 July 2021 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Großengottern_St._Walpurgis_08.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2022]
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view of church exterior - south view
![Source caption: "Kirche in Grossengottern" [St. Walpurgiskirche]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220828022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Grossengottern" [St. Walpurgiskirche]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikswat, 2010
Image Source: dicital photograph 23 April 2010 by Wikswat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_in_Grossengottern.JPG] [accessed 28 August 2022]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: Source capton: "Altarbereich der Dorfkirche St. Walpurgis (Großengottern)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2 July 2021 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Großengottern_St._Walpurgis_04.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2022]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Innenansicht der Dorfkirche St. Walpurgis (Großengottern)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2 July 2021 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Großengottern_St._Walpurgis_03.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: " Jakobus-Kapelle mit spätgotischem Schnitzaltar im Turm der Dorfkirche St. Walpurgis (Großengottern). Der Mittelschrein zeigt die Figuren der Hl. Nicolaus, Jacobus und Walpurgis." -- the old font in the tower space
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2 July 2021 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Großengottern_St._Walpurgis_08.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24251GRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche St. Walpurgis, Großengottern
Church Patron Saints: St. Walburga [aka Walpurgis, Vaubourg]
Church Location: 99991 Großengottern, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Located in the N Thuringian basin, between Mühlhausen and Bad Langensalza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the tower room
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it
Church Notes: church first documented 1318; but priest here documented by 1280; present church is 1494 re-building; much modified since
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the Romanesque period decorated with a frieze of round arch-heads around the basin is kept in the tower space; the hemispherical basin is badly damaged all around the upper rim.
A later font of 1737 is in use in the chancel.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 50.72″ N, 10° 33′ 29.61″ E