Groningen / Groeningen / Gröningen / Grüningen
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph 15 March 2017 by Roman(t)iker [http://romanische-schaetze.blogspot.com/2017/03/deutschland-groningen-sachsen-anhalt.html] [accessed 9 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehem. Benediktinerklosterkirche St. Vitus in Kloster Gröningen in Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Doris Antony, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2006 by Doria Antony [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Groeningen_church.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kloster Gröningen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2012 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Gröningen5.JPG] [accessed 9 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kloster Gröningen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2012 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Gröningen7.JPG] [accessed 9 January 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Grüningen Closter (Merian)"
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Matthäus Merian's Topographia und Eigentliche Beschreibung Der Vornembsten Stäte, Schlösser auch anderer Plätze und Örter in denen Hertzogthümer[n] Braunschweig und Lüneburg, und denen dazu gehörende[n] Grafschafften Herrschafften und Landen (Frankfurt am Main,1654/1658), Bd. 15 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grüningen_Closter_(Merian).jpg] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kloster Gröningen, Luftaufnahme (2017)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2017 by Wolkenkratzer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Gröningen_009.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kloster Gröningen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2012 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Gröningen8.JPG] [accessed 9 January 2023]
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view of church interior - west side - detail
![Source caption: "kleine Apsis der Kapelle befindet, die um 1170 im Westwerk eingebaut wurde." [NB: there is no indication in the source about the nature of the object in the small apse; could it possibly be a baptismal font?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230109008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "kleine Apsis der Kapelle befindet, die um 1170 im Westwerk eingebaut wurde." [NB: there is no indication in the source about the nature of the object in the small apse; could it possibly be a baptismal font?]
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Image Source: digital photograph 15 March 2017 by Roman(t)iker [http://romanische-schaetze.blogspot.com/2017/03/deutschland-groningen-sachsen-anhalt.html] [accessed 9 January 2023]
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view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roman(t)iker, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 15 March 2017 by Roman(t)iker [http://romanische-schaetze.blogspot.com/2017/03/deutschland-groningen-sachsen-anhalt.html] [accessed 9 January 2023]
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view of font in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roman(t)iker, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 15 March 2017 by Roman(t)iker [http://romanische-schaetze.blogspot.com/2017/03/deutschland-groningen-sachsen-anhalt.html] [accessed 9 January 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24569GRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ehemalige Benediktinerklosterkirche St. Vitus in Kloster Gröningen
Church Patron Saints: St. Vitus
Church Location: Kloster Gröningen, Poststraße, 39397 Gröningen, Germany -- Tel. +49 39403 4647
Country Name: Germany
Location: Börde, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B81, 10 km ENE of Halberstadt, 40 km SW of Magdeburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: Benedictine priory consecrated 940 by Abbot Volkmar I. († 942); Romanesque basilica church 12thC; modified 16th, 17th and 19thC;
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Straße der Romanik [https://romanik-strasse-erleben.de/klosterkirche-in-kloster-groeningen/] [accessed 9 January 2023] reports a fine Romanesque baptismal font in it: "Die Klosterkirche St. Vitus hat zusätzlich, zu den kunstvollen Malereien noch einen romanischen Taufstein zu bieten, der die Schönheit dieser Kirche unterstreicht." The font is also reported in the entry for this church in the Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz [https://www.denkmalschutz.de/denkmal/ehem-benediktinerklosterkirche-st-vitus.html] [accessed 9 January 2023]: "ein romanischer Taufstein".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9372, 11.1969
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 13.92″ N, 11° 11′ 48.84″ E
UTM: 32U 651020 5756334