Schonhausen / Schönhausen / Schönhausen am Elbe
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: large leaves in rectangular niches below the upper rim
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Image Source: digital photograph 17 January 2019 by Orwendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Dorfkirche_Schönhausen_(Elbe).jpg] [accessed 25 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orwendel, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 17 January 2019 by Orwendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Dorfkirche_Schönhausen_(Elbe).jpg] [accessed 25 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanische Dorfkirche in Schönhausen (Elbe)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Björn Gäde, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2007 by Björn Gäde [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schönhausen_romanische_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 25 October 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dorfkirche Schönhausen (Elbe) innen" -- showing the medieval font at the east end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orwendel, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 17 January 2019 by Orwendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Dorfkirche_Schönhausen_(Elbe)_innen_(Januar_2019).jpg] [accessed 25 October 2023]
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view of church interior - statue - angel
Scene Description: Source caption: "Auffallendes Interieur ist die anmutige Skulptur eines Taufengels im Chorbereich"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Feldstein, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2016 by Feldstein [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanische_Dorfkirche_in_Schönhausen,_Landkreis_Stendal,_Sachsen-Anhalt.jpg] [accessed 25 October 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein Dorfkirche Schönhausen (Elbe)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orwendel, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 17 January 2019 by Orwendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Dorfkirche_Schönhausen_(Elbe).jpg] [accessed 25 October 2023]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dorfkirche Schönhausen, romanisher Taufstein" -- showing a 'Taufengel' in the background
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H. Brünig, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2023 by H. Brünig, in Romanische Backsteinkirchen im Jerichower Land - Teil 4 [https://www.portalsaeule.de/index.php?cat=Backsteinbauten&page=Jerichower Land - 4] [accessed 25 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25006SCH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche St. Marien und Willebrord in Schönhausen
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Willibrord
Church Location: Fontanestraße 12, 39524 Schönhausen (Elbe), Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Stendal, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located off (W) Bd107 [aka Fontanestraße], on the E bank of the Elbe river, 14-15 km E of Stendal
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, E end
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th century, 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: church consecrated 1212;
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Romanische Backsteinkirchen im Jerichower Land - Teil 4, portalsaeule.de [https://www.portalsaeule.de/index.php?cat=Backsteinbauten&page=Jerichower Land - 4] [accessed 25 October 2023] notes and illustrates a Romanesque baptismal font in it ["Aus der romanischen Bauzeit sind der Taufstein und die Figur des Gekreuzigten am hölzernen Triumphkreuz erhalten geblieben"]. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a band of foliage inscribed in rectangular frames below the upper rim, raised on a round pedestal base with a roll moulding atop. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.582791, 12.035695
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 58.05″ N, 12° 2′ 8.5″ E
UTM: 33U 299175 5829989
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining