Rieseby

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design element - architectural - arch-head - 4

Scene Description: framing each of the four sides of the base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pelz, 2013

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 April 2013 by Pelz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rieseby_5259.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2022]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - vine

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at the upper corners of the base

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symbol - Tree of life? - 4

Scene Description: each slightly different from the other; the one seen here on the left appears to have legs, and the scrolls of the 'arms' rest on cross-shaped motifs

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " St. Petri-Kirche In Rieseby (Schleswig-Holstein) von SW"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Agnete, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph 3 June 2013 by Agnete [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rieseby_außen.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rieseby, Kirche St. Petri; Innenraum" -- the font, invisible in this photograph, is located in the northwest corner, across left from the pulpit, beneath the raised cover

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view of font and baptismal dish

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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Riseby kirkes granitdøbefont i Sydslesvig"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valnød, 1995

Image Source: edited detail of a 23 July 1995 photograph by Valnød [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riseby_kirkes_granitdøbefont_i_Sydslesvig.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: " Rieseby, Kirche St. Petri; Taufbecken"

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24388RIE
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Petri-Kirche in Rieseby
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Petriweg, 24354 Rieseby, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein
Directions to Site: Located off (N) local road K83 [aka Dorfstrasse], 6-7 km N of Eckernförde, about 20 km E of Schleswig
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting these two fonts
Church Notes: brick church of ca. 1220-1230; modified 1673; restored 1913
Baptismal font made of granite probably at about the time of the building of the church itself, ca. 1220-1230; it consists of a round irregular basin, between cylindrical and hemispherical, decorated with a broad vine all around; raised on a round-to-square, not quite a cushion capital, decorated with tiny human heads on the upper corners, while the four panels are decorated with Trees of Life, each somewhat different from the other, framed in an irregular arch-head. The Baroque wooden cover of 1649 was donated by Kai von Ahlefeldt and his wife Margarethe of Gut Saxtorf.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.542222, 9.813667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 32′ 32″ N, 9° 48′ 49.2″ E
UTM: 32U 552639 6044157

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German?
Inscription Location: painted on the lower sides of the cover

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1649
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: profusely decorated; painted