Muhlau / Mühlau / Mühlau bei Chemnitz

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view of baptistery

Scene Description: interior of the Taufkapelle with the modern font

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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 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 church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the old font is partially visible at the far-left [northeast] corner of the nave

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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 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"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24826MUH
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Pfarrkirche in Mühlau
Church Location: 09241 Mühlau, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Mittelsachsen, Sachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Bd72, 15 km NW of Chemnitz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the NE corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
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: 12th-13thC church; modified 18th, 20thC
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"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.904797, 12.763597
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 17.27″ N, 12° 45′ 48.95″ E
UTM: 33U 342760 5641620

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal