Arendsee
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Arendsee (Altmark), die Klosterkirche St. Maria"
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Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2019 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arendsee_(Altmark),_die_Klosterkirche_St._Maria.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Arendsee, die Klosterkirche St. Maria, Innenansicht"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dguendel, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2019 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arendsee_(Altmark),_die_Klosterkirche_St._Maria,_Innenansicht.JPG] [accessed 22 October 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Arendsee, die Klosterkirche St. Maria, der Taufstein"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dguendel, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2019 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arendsee_(Altmark),_die_Klosterkirche_St._Maria,_der_Taufstein.JPG] [accessed 22 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25002ARE
Church/Chapel: Evangelish-lutherische Pfarrkiche Arendsee [former Benedictine monastery church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin?, St. John & St. Nicholas
Church Location: a. See 3, 39619 Arendsee (Altmark), Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Altmark, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Bd190, about 20 km W of Seehausen (Altmark)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N transept
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only], Late Romanesque / Early Gothic? [basin only]
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: monastery founded 1183; church built in brick 1185; consecrated 1208; completed 1240; church renovated 1850-1851;
The entry for this monastery in Geschichstouren [https://geschichtstouren.de/strasse-der-romanik/nordroute/arendsee-benediktinerinnenkloster-st-marien/] [accessed 22 October 2023] reports and illustrates a late-Romanesque baptismal font in the north transept ["der Spätromanik, stammt auch der Taufstein im nördlichen Querhaus"]. The entry for this monastery in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Arendsee] [accessed 22 October 2023] reports a baptismal font with an octagonal basin probably of the Gothic period ["Der polygonale Oberteil des schlichten Taufsteins ist vermutlich ebenfalls gotisch."] [source given: Hellmut Müller: Die Klosterkirche Arendsee. 2. Auflage. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München, Berlin 1997, ohne ISBN, S. 20]. The octagonal basin has plain rounded sides around the underbowl; it retains two metal anchorings for an earlier cover at the upper rim; the octagonal base is modern. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.8812,
11.4773
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 52′ 52.32″ N,
11° 28′ 38.28″ E
UTM: 32U 666694 5861929
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
