Dornthal / Dörnthal
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angel - cherub
Scene Description: four?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchspiel Olbernhau, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchspiel Olbernhau [https://kirchspiel-olbernhau.de/doernthal/] [accessed 6 August 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - vine
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human figure - seated - 4
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inscription
Scene Description: four? in decorated cartouches on the basin sides
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wehrkirche (GMP: 50.737434,13.357734), im Kern vermutlich 13. oder 14. Jh. Chor 1520 bis 1539.Dachreiter von 1610 und 1773 und 1857 erneuert. Die beiden Anbauten auf der Südseite (Eingang mit Sonnenuhr und Sakristei) sowie die östlichen und westlichen Anbauten entstanden nach 1686/87. Zwischen 1877 und 1894 wurde die Schindelbedachung durch Schiefer ersetzt. Der Zugang zum Kirchhof führt durch ein 1683 erbautes Torhäuschen, das bis 1912 als Leichen- und Gerätehalle diente."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jörg Blobelt, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2016 by Jörg Blobelt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20160718510DR_Dörnthal_Wehrkirche.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Dörnthal – Taufstein geschmückt"
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view of font
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view of font - upper view
Scene Description: showing the lining or baptismal dish
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view of font in context - west side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24857DOR
Church/Chapel: Wehrkirche / Wehrgangkirche Dörnthal
Church Location: Markt 9, 09526 Olbernhau, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen
Directions to Site: Located off local roads S223 [Blumenauer Str.], E of the Bd171, just NW of Brandau and the Czech border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end of the nave
Date: 1610
Century and Period: 17th century(early), Baroque
Church Notes: church of 1346; expanded 1520 to 1539; turret added 1610;
The entry for this church in the Adventskalender der TU Chemnitz 2006 [https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/advent/2006/21/] [accessed 6 August 2023] reports and illustrates a baptismal font donated by Elisabeth von Steinberg in 1610 in it ["Taufstein, einem Geschenk der Elisabeth von Steinberg von 1610."]. Noted and illustrated in the Ev. Luth. Kirchspiel Olbernhau [https://kirchspiel-olbernhau.de/doernthal/] [accessed 6 August 2023] as a sandstone font of 1610 ["Bemerkenswert ist auch das Sandstein-Taufbecken aus dem Jahr 1610."] The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated wirh [four?] large cartouches bearing inscriptions held by standing cherubs all around; a vine runs all around the lower edge of the basin; stands on a round-to-square pedestal base with four human figures at the angles; roll moulding all around; on a plain round plinth.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.661278,
13.334833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 39′ 40.6″ N,
13° 20′ 5.4″ E
UTM: 33U 382310 5613482
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: inscription on cartouches around the basin sides; there is also a carved one on one of the sides of the lower bas
Inscription Location: on the basin sides