Boldekow / Wendeschen Boldekow

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns - columns with capitals and bases - 16

Scene Description: all around the sixteen-sided basin

Image Source: digital photograph 2021 in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Spantekow [http://www.kirche-spantekow.de/seite/484206/kirche-boldekow.html] [accessed 14 October 2022]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 2021 in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Spantekow [http://www.kirche-spantekow.de/seite/484206/kirche-boldekow.html] [accessed 14 October 2022]

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design element - motifs - scotia

Image Source: digital photograph 2021 in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Spantekow [http://www.kirche-spantekow.de/seite/484206/kirche-boldekow.html] [accessed 14 October 2022]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Große Freude über den sensationellen Fund: Pastor Philipp Staak mit dem kürzlich in der Boldekower Kirche geborgenen Taufstein. -- Foto: S. Kühl"

Image Source: digital photograph 14 December 2015 by Ssebastian Kühl, PEK [https://www.kirche-mv.de/nachrichten/2015/dezember/700-jahre-alter-taufstein-in-boldekow-entdeckt] [accessed 14 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Boldekow"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 2 October 2012 by Erell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boldekow_Kirche_Südwest.JPG] [accessed 14 October 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the restored font in the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph 2021 in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Spantekow [http://www.kirche-spantekow.de/seite/484206/kirche-boldekow.html] [accessed 14 October 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim of the basin, and that the basin does not have a drain hole; the block on the right is the pedestal base; the stone on the left is the lower base

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Justizministerin Katy Hoffmeister (CDU) übereichte einen Zuwendungsbescheid über eine Summe von 20.000 Euro an Pastor Philipp Staak. [photo] Matthias Diekhoff "

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2020 by Matthias Diekhoff, in 'Rarität in Boldekower Kirche kann jetzt saniert werden: 700 Jahre alter Taufstein [https://www.nordkurier.de/anklam/raritaet-in-boldekower-kirche-kann-jetzt-saniert-werden-0340908010.html] [accessed 14 October 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24367BOL

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Pfarrkirche Boldekow

Church Location: 17392 Boldekow, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Located off county road [ Bundesstraße] 197 [aka Friedlander Strasse], 8 km NNE of Friedland, 17 km SSW of Anklam, 31 km NE of Neubrandenburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1320?

Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland 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: 13thC church; modified 15thC; destroyed in Thirty Years War; re-built 1728; renovated 19thC; expanded 1950

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An article in the December 2015 news issue of Evangelische Kirche in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [https://www.kirche-mv.de/nachrichten/2015/dezember/700-jahre-alter-taufstein-in-boldekow-entdeckt] [accessed 14 October 2022] informs of a baptismal font of ca. 1320(?) discovered during renovation work in the church grounds, where the excavated two stone blocks supporting the gallery pillars turned out to be a sixteen-sided medieval stone basin and its base: "Bei der dafür notwendigen Freilegung des Fundaments der zu erneuernden hölzernen Stützpfeiler der Empore, die mit der Fachwerkkonstruktion des Turms verbunden ist, kam es zur Sensation: Die beiden als Fundament dienenden Steine unter den zwei Emporenpfeilern entpuppten sich als der Standfuß und das Becken eines mittelalterlichen Taufsteins. Sechzehn Ecken hat das gewaltige Steinbecken, das mit einem gleichmäßigen figürlich anmutenden Relief verziert ist." The same source notes that the pastor, Philipp Staak, suggested that the font may have been made localy, probably on the banks of the Peene, from imported Gotland sandstone; he further noted that there were traces of rust around the outer perimeter of the basin where anchoring for a cover may have existed;, and added there was no drain hole in the basin bottom. Matthew Diekhoff's article 'Rarität in Boldekower Kirche kann jetzt saniert werden: 700 Jahre alter Taufstein [https://www.nordkurier.de/anklam/raritaet-in-boldekower-kirche-kann-jetzt-saniert-werden-0340908010.html] [accessed 14 October 2022] informs that the font damage will be restored with governmental funds and shows the font already re-set and waiting for its restoration. [NB: the Wikipedia entry for Kirche Boldekow [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirche_Boldekow] [accessed 14 October 2022] mistakingly gives the material of the font as granite: "Der Rundfuß eines mittelalterlichen Taufsteins ist aus Granit", although it cites the source as the above article which identifies the material as Gotland sandstone].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.723361, 13.593083

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 43′ 24.1″ N, 13° 35′ 35.1″ E

UTM: 33U 407170 5953662

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone [Gotland?]

Font Shape: hexadecagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexadecagonal

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]