Zaasch

Image copyright © Andreas Bechert, 2016

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: all around the basin sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Bechert, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 30 June 2016 by Andreas Bechert provided by Pol Herman

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Kirche Zaasch"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2023 by Catatine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zaasch,_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the top of the font cover on the left, by north pillar of the chancel arch

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sens, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 28 March 2019 by Wolfgang Sens in the Leipziger Volkszeitung [https://www.lvz.de/lokales/nordsachsen/delitzsch/die-besonderheiten-der-kirche-zaasch-NTA5DEVXJDQ5IJD3KRQU5UYLR4.html] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the modern replacement base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Bechert, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 30 June 2016 by Andreas Bechert provided by Pol Herman

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24852ZAA
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Ursula, Zaasch
Church Patron Saints: St. Ursula
Church Location: Zaasch, 04509 Wiedemar, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Nordsachsen, Sachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Bd183a, in the municipality of Wiedemar, 7 km WNW of Delitzsch, about 28-29 km N of Leipzig
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N pillar of the chancel arch
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
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: 13th-14thC church; modified since
A baptismal angel and a wooden font (?) in this church are mentioned in the Architektur-Blicklicht [https://www.architektur-blicklicht.de/kirchen/kirchen/zaasch-kirche-wiedemar-nordsachsen/] [accessed 3 August 2023]. The original baptismal font here is mentioned in the Kirchekreis Thorgau-Delitzsch EKM [https://www.kirche-in-nordsachsen.de/index.php/gemeindeleben/foerdervereine/zaasch] [accessed 3 August 2023]. The font here is shown in a 2016 photograph by Andreas Bechert [cf. ImagesArea]: a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with an incised arcade of blind round arches around its sides, raised on a modern replacement base. The pyramidal wooden cover is brightly painted and appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.551451, 12.274518
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 33′ 5.23″ N, 12° 16′ 28.27″ E
UTM: 33U 311046 5714672

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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