Dobin am See

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: around the stem

Image Source: digital image of a 1898 B&W photograph in Die Kunst- und Geschichts-Denkmäler des Grossherzogthums Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Im Auftrage des Grossherzoglichen Ministeriums des Inneren, Herausgegeben von der Commission zur Erhaltung von Denkmäler II. Band Die Ämtsgerichtsbezirke Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch und Schwerin, Bearbeitet von Professor Dr. Friedlich Schlie, Museumsdirektor und Hofrath (1898)

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

human figure - grotesque or fantastic

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein von Dobin, gefunder in der Döpe [...] Z. Zt. im Garten des Herrn. Prof. Dr. Stötzer in Bützow"

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Schloss Wiligrad in Lübstorf" -- the old Dobin font spouting away in the grounds of Schloss Wiligrad [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 12 May 2016 by Oberlausitzerin64 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luebstorf_Schloss_Wiligrad.jpg] [accessed 2 November 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Schloss Wiligrad in Lübstorf" -- the old Dobin font spouting away in the grounds of Schloss Wiligrad [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 May 2016 by Oberlausitzerin64 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luebstorf_Schloss_Wiligrad.jpg] [accessed 2 November 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24421DOB

Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]

Church Location: [address & coordinates given for Dobin am See] 19067 Dobin am See, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Dobin am See is located off (N) county road 14, on the E bank of the Schweriner See, 6-7 km SE of Hohen Vieheln, 16 km SSE of Wismar -- the See Döpe, where the font was rescued from, is just SE of Hohen Bieheln -- Schloss Wiligard is located on the W bank of the Schweiner See, across from Dobin am See

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

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 castle in the area existed ca. 1160 but was destroyed during the Wendish Crusade; there may have been a church in therea between the 13th and the 18thC

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The picture of a baptismal font is captioned "Taufstein von Dobin, gefunder in der Döpe" appears on p, 338 of Die Kunst- und Geschichts-Denkmäler des Grossherzogthums Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Im Auftrage des Grossherzoglichen Ministeriums des Inneren, Herausgegeben von der Commission zur Erhaltung von Denkmäler II. Band Die Ämtsgerichtsbezirke Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch und Schwerin, Bearbeitet von Professor Dr. Friedlich Schlie, Museumsdirektor und Hofrath (1898). The font consists of a tub-shaped basin with plain sides and a rounded underbowl, raised on an odd-looking base with a stem decorated with round arches, and several (6? / 8?) grotesque or deformed human heads on the lower base. A communicattion from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 11 July 2022) states: "Although some authors doubt it, I think this is the font that is standing in the garden of the Schloss Willigrad. Pol Herman adds the reference to the 1898 source above, as well as other information related to the font and associated claims from assorted sources: "In 1770 or 1775, at the village Hohen Viecheln, a baptismal font was dredged up from the lake Döpe. The carved decoration on the base was interpreted as showing eight Slavic heads. The font therefore became linked to a legend about the violent baptism of the local Slavic population in 1148. In the spring of 1148, crusaders advanced into the Wendenland in two battle groups; one party advanced against Dobin castle, the other against Demin. 'partito exercitu duas munition es obsede runt, Dubin et Dimin, et fecerunt contra eas machinas multas. Venit quoque Danorum exercitus et additus est his, qui obsederant Dubin, et crevitobsidio. Una ergo dierum, considerantes ii, qui tenebantur inclusi, quia Danorum exercitus segnius ageret, facta subita eruptione percusserunt ex eis multos; quibus etiam subveniri nonpoterat propter inter jacens stagnum. Ad ultimum, nostris jam pertaesis, conventio talisfacta est, ut Slavi fidem Christianam reciperent; - multi ergo eorum falso baptizati sunt". On Internet you will find websites that question the legendary link between the font and the events in 1148, but also websites that continue to state it as a fact. You will find websites that pretend that the font has since been lost. Others describe that it went to the Friedrich-Universität Bützow, that it was later transferred in the private garden of Oskar Glorius Stötzer at Bützow, and that duke Johann Albrecht installed it in the park of his castle Willigrad in 1898."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.733333, 11.533333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 44′ 0″ N, 11° 32′ 0″ E

UTM: 32U 667102 5956832

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round