Altefahr / Altegaer / Altefähr

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 by Rolf Böhm in RuegenUrlaub.de [https://www.ruegenurlaub.de/insel-ruegen/kirchen/route-4/st-nikolaikirche-altefaehr.html] [accessed 15 October 2022]

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inscription

Scene Description: the whole upper rim above the metal band appears to be a restoration; the inscription is modern

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Altefähr, Insel Rügen, Kirche St. Nikolai"

Image Source: digital photograph 3 May 2015 by Unukorno [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altefaehr_Church_St._Nikolai.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Nikolai-Kirche Altefähr, Rügen. Ansicht aus südwestlicher Richtung"

Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2007 by Rainer Knäpper / Smial [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nikolai_Altefaehr_imgp7758.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2022]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2007 by Rainer Knäpper / Smial [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nikolai_Altefaehr_Chor_IMGP7772.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2022]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the pulpit in the centre of the image; the top of th baptismal font in the bottom-right corner

Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2007 by Rainer Knäpper / Smial [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nikolai_Altefaehr_Kanzel_IMGP7769.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2022]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: the restored font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24372ALT

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Dorfkirche St.-Nikolai Altefähr / St.-Nikolaus zur Fähre / Seefahrerkirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Kirchweg 8, 18573 Altefähr, Germany -- Tel.: +49 38306 75231

Country Name: Germany

Location: Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway E22, on the Strelasund, on Rügen, across the strait from Stralsund

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel

Century and Period: 14th century [restored], Gothic [altered]

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: a ca. 1220 chapel here first documented as "capella opposita civitati stralsund"; present church mid-15th century; modified 17thC, 1803, 1912-1013

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for this church in i-Rügen [https://www.ruegencenter.de/1-info/sehen-1-5-kirchen.php] [accessed 15 October 2022] reports a 14th-century font of Swedish limestone in it. The font is noted and illustrated in RuegenUrlaub.de [https://www.ruegenurlaub.de/insel-ruegen/kirchen/route-4/st-nikolaikirche-altefaehr.html] [accessed 15 October 2022]. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin, almost cylindrical, the sides decorated with a blind arcade of round arches all around; the upper section of the basin, above the metal band that cinches the top, appears to be a total replacement and is carved with the well-known phrase from Matthew 19:14: "Lasset - die - Kindlen [...]" on its upper surface; it has a metal baptismal dish covering the inner basin; the base is a plain circular stone that appears unaltered. A later font of metal, perhaps 18th-century, is also in this church; both fonts are located in different parts of the chancel.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.33, 13.125278

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 19′ 48″ N, 13° 7′ 31″ E

UTM: 33U 378094 6021859

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Gotland?]

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: [Matthew 19:14]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]