Kroslin / Kröslin
Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 24 - columns with capitals
Scene Description: the 'capitals' are floral motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin [https://www.kirche-mv.de/kroeslin/christophorus-kirche-kroeslin#lb1587-4] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: a number of the spandrels are decorated with rosettes and other floral motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin [https://www.kirche-mv.de/kroeslin/christophorus-kirche-kroeslin#lb1587-4] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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design element - patterns - piping or ribbed
Scene Description: on the arrises of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin [https://www.kirche-mv.de/kroeslin/christophorus-kirche-kroeslin#lb1587-4] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: a number of the spandrels are decorated with human heads; some of the ones seen here are male, with facial hair; one has leaves on the head; others are rosettes and other floral motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin [https://www.kirche-mv.de/kroeslin/christophorus-kirche-kroeslin#lb1587-4] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: the medieval font now uses a baptismal dish supported by an internal metal grill
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a photograph by Peter Machule [https://docplayer.org/107397076-Oktober-november-2017-hol-oewer-nachrichten-der-kirchengemeinde-kroeslin.html] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Kirche in Kröslin entstand vermutlich im 14. Jahrhundert. Im Innern befindet sich unter anderem ein Freester Fischerteppich."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Assenmacher, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2017 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Kröslin_Nordansicht.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Kirche in Kröslin entstand vermutlich im 14. Jahrhundert. Im Innern befindet sich unter anderem ein Freester Fischerteppich."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Assenmacher, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2017 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Kröslin_Turmhalle.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein aus dem 14. Jh"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kröslin [https://www.kirche-mv.de/kroeslin/christophorus-kirche-kroeslin#lb1587-4] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: Source caption: "Am 21. März des Jahres 2006 bestätigte Käte Sontag als Tochter des Bauern Bentzien mit ihrer Unterschrift in einem Schreiben,
dass nun wiederum die Kirchengemeinde Kröslin der rechtmäßige Eigentümer dieses Taufsteines ist."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchengemeinde Kröslin [https://docplayer.org/107397076-Oktober-november-2017-hol-oewer-nachrichten-der-kirchengemeinde-kroeslin.html] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font had been sold away in 1878 and used a garden ornament by its new owners; it was restored to the church in 1947
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Kröslin, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of an undated [pre-1947?] B&W photograph in Kirchengemeinde Kröslin [https://docplayer.org/107397076-Oktober-november-2017-hol-oewer-nachrichten-der-kirchengemeinde-kroeslin.html] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24341KRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche Kröslin / Christophorus Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Church Location: Bahnhofstraße 31, 17440 Kröslin, Germany -- Tel.: +49 38370 20259
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Located off local road L262 [aka Bahnhofstraße], 8-9 km N of Wolgast. 90-100 km E of Rostock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font / Paradise font
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: 13th-14thC church; modified 19th and 19thC
Font Notes:
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Medieval [1330s?] octagonal baptismal font of Gotland sandstone sold to a farmer in the 1878 renovation; restored to the church after 1947; the font appears to be one of the more ornamented Paradise fonts made on Gotland; the octagonal basin nas a rounded underbowl and is decorated with an arcade of twenty-four trefoiled arches all around; most of the spandrels of the arches are decorated with floral and leafy heads, a few with single flowers; each 'column' of the arcade has a rosette just below the arch head; the splaying pedestal base is octagonal and decorated with moulding on the arrises. No cover present; the small metal baptismal dish is supported by a metal grill on the inside of the basin.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.117333, 13.752
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 7′ 2.4″ N, 13° 45′ 7.2″ E
UTM: 33U 418426 5997296
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining