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Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2014
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: all around the basin sides and underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 July 2014 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Güstrow_Dom_-_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - motifs - torus-scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 July 2014 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Güstrow_Dom_-_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
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design element - motifs - trefoil and quatrefoil
Scene Description: alternating in the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 July 2014 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Güstrow_Dom_-_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Güstrower Dom"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Bethke, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 20 April 2023 by Matthias Bethke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20230420_4470_Güstrower_Dom.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
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view of church exterior - northwerst view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dom Güstrow / cathedral in Güstrow"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schiwago, 2018
Image Source: edited version (by Ulamm, 2018) of a digital photograph 28 April 2007 by Schiwago [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G%C3%BCstrow_Dom_vert%2Bhori_ca_50%25_entzerrt.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Güstrow domkirke"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dansk kulturarv, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 October 2019 by Dansk kulturarv [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Güstrow_domkirke_1_af_Erik_Værbak_2019.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: Source caption: "Güstrower Dom-Altar von Hinrik Bornemann"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Bethke, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 28 September 2023 by Matthias Bethke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20230928_9260_Güstrower_Dom-Altar_von_Hinrik_Bornemann.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Güstrower Dom" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0231205000_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Güstrower Dom" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1901 B&W photograph by Friedrich Schlie's Die Kunst- und Geschichts-Denkmäler des Grossherzogthums Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Bd. 4 : Die Amtsgerichtsbezirke Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz und Plau
2. Aufl., Schwerin i.M. [u.a.]: Bärensprung [u.a.] , 1901 [https://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/ppn769038573] [accessed 5 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-70-expired
view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Güstrow ( Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ). Dom: Gotischer Taufstein ( ca.1280)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 July 2014 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Güstrow_Dom_-_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Langschiff und Orgelempore im Dom in Güstrow" -- the 1591 baptismal font and cover in the context of the church interior looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schiwago, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2009 by Shiwago [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guestrow_Dom_Langschiff_Orgelempore2.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom zu Güstrow, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Dom zu Güstrow [https://dom-guestrow.de/08-taufstein.html] [accessed 5 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 25127GUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelish-lutherische Güstrower Dom St. Maria, St. Johannes Evangelista und St. Cäcilia
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin?, St. John ther Baptist and St. Cecilia
Church Location: Dompl. 4, 18273 Güstrow, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rostock, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Güstrow is located off the Bd104, about 40 km S of Rostck. The church is located inside the town walls, in the SW area
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1280?
Century and Period: 13th century (late?) [basin only], Gothic [basin only]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten
Church Notes: original church completed 1335 [it is a collegiate church, not officially a cathedral, despite the name]
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font consisting of a basin of the Gothic 'paradise' type made in Gotland, raised on a modern replacement base totally unsuited to the basin; the basin is decorated with the characteristic arcade of trefoiled arches, the spandrels alternating trefoil and quatrefoil motifs.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.791, 12.1734
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 47′ 27.6″ N, 12° 10′ 24.24″ E
UTM: 33U 313814 5963976
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round