Muhlau / Mühlau / Mühlau bei Chemnitz
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dorfkirche Mühlau (Sachsen)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aagnverglaser, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph22 April 2021 by Aagnverglaser [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorfkirche_Mühlau_(Sachsen)_(2).jpg] [accessed 25 July 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der romanische Taufstein, der vorher als Pflanzkübel vor dem Pfarrhaus stand, wurde Ende der 60er Jahre wieder in die Kirche zurückgebracht und am Altarplatz aufgestellt. Seitdem wird hier getauft"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde Hartmannsdorf-Mühlau 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde Hartmannsdorf-Mühlau 2023 [https://kirche-hartmannsdorf-muehlau.de/kirche-muehlau/] [accessed 25 July 2023]
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view of baptistery
Scene Description: interior of the Taufkapelle with the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde Hartmannsdorf-Mühlau 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde Hartmannsdorf-Mühlau 2023 [https://kirche-hartmannsdorf-muehlau.de/kirche-muehlau/] [accessed 25 July 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the old font is partially visible at the far-left [northeast] corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde Hartmannsdorf-Mühlau 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde Hartmannsdorf-Mühlau 2023 [https://kirche-hartmannsdorf-muehlau.de/kirche-muehlau/] [accessed 25 July 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24826MUH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Pfarrkirche in Mühlau
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the NE corner of the nave
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; modified 18th, 20thC
Church Address: 09241 Mühlau, Germany
Site Location: Mittelsachsen, Sachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Bd72, 15 km NW of Chemnitz
Additional Comments: disused font / restored font
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchgemeinde Harmannsdorf-Mühlau [https://kirche-hartmannsdorf-muehlau.de/kirche-muehlau/] [accessed 25 July 2023] reports a Romanesque baptismal font that had served as planter in the vicarage garden for a long time until it was brought back to the church in the late 1960s ["Der romanische Taufstein, der vorher als Pflanzkübel vor dem Pfarrhaus stand, wurde Ende der 60er Jahre wieder in die Kirche zurückgebracht und am Altarplatz aufgestellt. Seitdem wird hier getauft"]. The same source (ibid.) notes and illustrates a modern font of stone, also inside the church, in the baptistery chapel ["der Taufkapelle"].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 342760 5641620
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.904797, 12.763597
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 54′ 17.27″ N, 12° 45′ 48.95″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal