Freyburg im Unstruttal
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angel - cherub - head
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche St. Marien in Freyburg (Unstrut) im Burgenlandkreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, Renaissance-Taufbecken um 1592" -- one of six
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_257.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding - patterned
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_283.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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human figure - putti
Scene Description: two of them seen here (left and centre)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_283.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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human figure - seated - 2 - embracing
Scene Description: two of them on this side of the base: on the left is a seated male in rich clothing; on the right is seated female, also dressed in rich coltes; between them a pracing putto and large piles of fruit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_254.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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symbol - fruit
Scene Description: severeal large piles of it between the figures of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_255.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Freyburg an der Unstrut, Marienkirche"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 21 May 2015 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_an_der_Unstrut,_Marienkirche-017.jpg] [accessed 23 Januiary 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Freyburg (Unstrut), Kirchplatz, Kirche St. Marien"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2018 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchplatz,_Kirche_St._Marien_Freyburg_(Unstrut)_20180814_015.jpg] [accessed 23 Januiary 2023]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Freyburg an der Unstrut, Marienkirche"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2018 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchplatz,_Kirche_St._Marien_Freyburg_(Unstrut)_20180814_005.jpg] [accessed 23 Januiary 2023]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Freyburg an der Unstrut, Marienkirche"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2018 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchplatz,_Kirche_St._Marien_Freyburg_(Unstrut)_20180814_006.jpg] [accessed 23 Januiary 2023]
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
Scene Description: Source caption: "Freyburg an der Unstrut, Marienkirche"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 14 August 2018 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchplatz,_Kirche_St._Marien_Freyburg_(Unstrut)_20180814_040.jpg] [accessed 23 Januiary 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Freyburg"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Förderverein Welterbe an Saale und Unstrut e.V., 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 15 May 2017 by Förderverein Welterbe an Saale und Unstrut e.V. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Freyburg.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Freyburg (Unstrut), Kirchplatz, Kirche St. Marien"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2018 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchplatz,_Kirche_St._Marien_Freyburg_(Unstrut)_20180814_034.jpg] [accessed 23 Januiary 2023]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche St. Marien in Freyburg (Unstrut) im Burgenlandkreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, spätgotischer Hochaltar, 1499 geweiht, im Mittelschrein Darstellung der Marienkrönung"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_Hochaltar_258.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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view of church interior - retable - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche St. Marien in Freyburg (Unstrut) im Burgenlandkreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, spätgotischer Hochaltar, 1499 geweiht, im Mittelschrein Darstellung der Marienkrönung; linker Flügel: Verkündigung (oben), Heimsuchung (unten); rechter Flügel: Geburt Christi (oben), Marientod (unten)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_Hochaltar_259.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche St. Marien in Freyburg (Unstrut) im Burgenlandkreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, Renaissance-Taufbecken um 1592"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_283.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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view of font - north side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche St. Marien in Freyburg (Unstrut) im Burgenlandkreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, Renaissance-Taufbecken um 1592"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_255.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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view of font - northwest side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche St. Marien in Freyburg (Unstrut) im Burgenlandkreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, Renaissance-Taufbecken um 1592"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_254.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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view of font in context - west side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche St. Marien in Freyburg (Unstrut) im Burgenlandkreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, Chor mit spätgotischem Flügelaltar"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freyburg_(Unstrut)_Stadtkirche_St._Marien_285.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24572FRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Stadtkirche Sankt Marien in Freyburg (Unstrut)
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Kirchstraße 8, 06632 Freyburg (Unstrut), Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located NE of road 176, on the E banks of the Unstrut river, 3 km E of Balgstädt,
40-45 km WSW of Leipzig. The church is located SE of the market square on the E of Freyburg city limits
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the chancel stairs
Date: ca. 1592? / ca. 1600?
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance? / Baroque?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention
Church Notes: 13thC late-Romanesque church; partially re-built 15thC; restored 1930s
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of hexagonal basin decorated with six cherub heads on the rounded underbowl sides, a patterned roll moulding below, and a round pedestal base with deeply-carved figures and large piles of fruit between them; among the figures are a seated male and a seated female dressed in rich clothes, as well as saveral prancing putti; the hands of all the figures hold or rest on the large piles of fruit; plain splaying lower base. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.211787, 11.771079
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 12′ 42.43″ N, 11° 46′ 15.88″ E
UTM: 32U 693543 5677026
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining