Graba
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gertrudiskirche in Saalfeld-Graba"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 23 July 2019 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saalfeld_Gertrudiskirche_01.jpg] [accessed 14 January 2024]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gertrudiskirche (Saalfeld-Graba), 7 m hoher spätgotischer Schnitzaltar aus Saalfelder Schule. Die Figuren wurden etwa 1510 von Hans Gottwald von Lohr angefertigt. Im Mittelteil befinden sich die lebensgroßen Figuren der heiligen Gertrud zwischen Benedikt von Nursia und Anno von Köln. In den geöffneten Flügeln stehen die in Flachreliefs ausgeführten Heiligen Sebastian und Jakobus der Ältere sowie Katharina und Barbara. Der filigran geschnitzte Auszug über dem Schrein wird geschmückt von den Figuren der Maria mit Kind zwischen Petrus und Paulus; im obersten Teil erscheint die Figurengruppe des Gnadenstuhls oder der Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 23 July 2019 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saalfeld_Gertrudiskirche_05.jpg] [accessed 14 January 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gertrudiskirche in Saalfeld-Graba, Blick zum Chor" -- showing the baptismal font at the east end of the nave, in the centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 23 July 2019 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saalfeld_Gertrudiskirche_04.jpg] [accessed 14 January 2024]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Innenraum Panorama der Gertrudiskirche in Saalfeld-Graba, rechts die Fürstenloge"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Erwin Meier, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 23 July 2019 by Erwin Meier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saalfeld_Gertrudiskirche_02.jpg] [accessed 14 January 2024]
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view of font in context - west side
Scene Description: Source caption: "alter Taufsteine, undatiert"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christina Weigl, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Christina Weigl, in the EKMD [https://www.ekmd.de/aktuell/projekte-und-aktionen/wasser-des-lebens-ekm-sommerserie-2023/#gallery-94] [accessed 14 January 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25263GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Gertrudiskirche Graba
Church Patron Saints: St. Gertrude of Nivelles [aka Gertraud, Gertraudt, Gertrude, Gertrudis]
Church Location: Graba, 07318 Saalfeld/Saale, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the Bd281, in the municipality and NW area of Saalfeld-Saale (since 1922), on the W bank of the Saale river, about 50 km SE of Erfurt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, in the centre
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th - 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: the ecclesiastical parish of Graba and its Romanesque church existed before the city of Saalfeld; the church was dedicated to St. Gertrude; new tower of the late-15thC;
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrudiskirche_(Graba)] [accessed 14 January 2024] mentions a baptismal font inside ["Der Taufstein steht im Zentrum des Raumes"]. The large stone font consists of an octagonal basin raised on a short pedestal base of the same shape, and a wide plinth; all of it plain.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.65547, 11.358565
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 39′ 19.69″ N, 11° 21′ 30.83″ E
UTM: 32U 666713 5614167
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal