Giesenslage
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans-Peter Bodenstein, 2015
Image Source: digital image of content in Taufstein aus der Kirche in Räbel by Hans-Peter Bodenstein in Obiter dictum, Nr. 64, 08/2015 [od64.pdf] [accessed 27 January 2024]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dietlinde Bodenstein / Hans-Peter Bodenstein, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Dietlinde Bodenstein, in Taufstein aus der Kirche in Räbel by Hans-Peter Bodenstein in Obiter dictum, Nr. 64, 08/2015 [od64.pdf] [accessed 27 January 2024]
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view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dietlinde Bodenstein / Hans-Peter Bodenstein, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Dietlinde Bodenstein, in Taufstein aus der Kirche in Räbel by Hans-Peter Bodenstein in Obiter dictum, Nr. 64, 08/2015 [od64.pdf] [accessed 27 January 2024]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Kirche in Giesenslage (Kirchenkreis Stendal)."
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Image Source: digital photograph 10 May 2015 by Kirchenfan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giesenslage_Kirche_ev.jpg] [accessed 27 January 2024]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dietlinde Bodenstein / Hans-Peter Bodenstein, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Dietlinde Bodenstein, in Taufstein aus der Kirche in Räbel by Hans-Peter Bodenstein in Obiter dictum, Nr. 64, 08/2015 [od64.pdf] [accessed 27 January 2024]
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view of font - elevation, section, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans-Peter Bodenstein, 2015
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Taufstein aus der Kirche in Räbel by Hans-Peter Bodenstein in Obiter dictum, Nr. 64, 08/2015 [od64.pdf] [accessed 27 January 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25292GIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche Giesenslage
Church Location: Dorfstrasse, Gleseslage, 39615 Werben, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Stendal, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located off the L16 [aka Dorfstrasse], in the municipality and 5-6 km SSW of Weben, 8-10 km WSW of Havelberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: late-Romanesque (12thC) brick church; modified 13thC; restored 1967;
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Giesenslage] [accessed 27 January 2024] reports a trough-like Romanesque baptismal font made of sandstone, moved from Räbel ["Der altertümliche trogartige Taufstein aus Sandstein stammt sicher noch aus romanischer Zeit und wurde aus der Kirche in Räbel hierher überführt"]. An article Taufstein aus der Kirche in Räbel by Hans-Peter Bodenstein in Obiter dictum, Nr. 64, 08/2015 [od64.pdf] [accessed 27 January 2024] describes and illustrated a tub-shaped object that is now located in the church at Giesenslage, but was earlier at the nearby church of Räbel. Bodenstein (ibid.) informs that this was the original font at the Havelberger Dom, whence it was moved to the church at Räbel, and eventually into the Dorfkirche Giesenslage. The tub-shaped basin has damage and missing sections around the upper rim; the only decoration is a band of rough chiselling around the lower end of the basin; given its height (65 cm) it is likely it originally stood on a base of sorts; it now rests directly on the ground. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.806388, 11.955809
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 23″ N, 11° 57′ 20.91″ E
UTM: 32U 699228 5854828
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 85 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 104 cm*
Basin Depth: 42 cm*
Basin Total Height: 65 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bodenstein [od64.pdf]