Flensburg No. 6 / Flansborj / Flensborag / Flensborg / Flensborre / Flensburg-Adelby

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4

Scene Description: the added sandstone figures

Image Source: digital photograph 27 March 2015 by Hajotthu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johanniskirche_Flensburg_Taufstein_(1592).JPG] [accessed 4 March 2024]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: on the short pedestals below the four figures

Image Source: digital photograph 27 March 2015 by Hajotthu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johanniskirche_Flensburg_Taufstein_(1592).JPG] [accessed 4 March 2024]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: on the stem of the central shaft of the base

Image Source: digital photograph 27 March 2015 by Hajotthu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johanniskirche_Flensburg_Taufstein_(1592).JPG] [accessed 4 March 2024]

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inscription

Scene Description: Biblical text and date

Image Source: digital photograph 14 January 2007 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Hans_Kirke_(Flensborg)_8.JPG] [accessed 4 March 2024]

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inscription

Scene Description: Biblical text

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view of church interior chancel - ceiling - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chor der St. Johanneskirche in Flensburg"

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein von 1592 in der Johanniskirche von Flensburg" -- the 1592 limestone font with the four later sandstone statues

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Johanniskirche (Sankt Hans Kirke) in Flensburg (Flensborg), town's oldest church, 12th century." -- the 1592 limestone font with the four later sandstone statues

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Johanniskirche (Sankt Hans Kirke) in Flensburg (Flensborg), town's oldest church, 12th century."

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Image Source: digital photograph 14 January 2007 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Hans_Kirke_(Flensborg)_7.JPG] [accessed 4 March 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25371FLE

Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche St. Johannes / Johanniskirche / Adelbyer Kirche / Kirche St. Johannis zu Adelby

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist

Church Location: Johanniskirchhof 22, 24937 Flensburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 461 12 771

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the K28, at the SW end of the Flensburger Förde, 86 km NW of Kiel. Adelby is the core of Flensburg old town

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Schleswig

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1592 [altered]

Century and Period: 16th century(late) [altered], Renaissance [altered?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hainaut type font?

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it

Church Notes: legendary construction date 1128; modified and extended 15thC; present tower of 1741;

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A description of this church by Janne Thomassen Küster an St. Johannis [https://altstadt-flensburg.de/pdf/vortrag_stjohannis_de.pdf] [accessed 4 March 2024] notes that the octagonal baptismal font was donated by Harder Vake, a city councillor, bears inscriptions with texts from Matt. 28,19 and Mark. 16,16, and that the statues of the Four Evangelists were a later addition ["Der Taufstein wurde der Kirche von einem flensburger Ratsherren, Harder Vake, gegeben. Er ist achteckig und trägt zwei Bibelzitate, Matth. 28,19 und Mark. 16,16. Der Taufstein wird von den vier Evangelisten getragen, die später als Unterstützung beigefügt wurden"]. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanniskirche_(Flensburg)] [accessed 4 March 2024] mentions an octagonal baptismal font from 1592 with four statues of the Four Evangelists ["Der Taufstein in achteckiger Kelchform stammt aus dem Jahr 1592. Er zeigt vier Statuen, die die vier Evangelisten: Matthäus, Markus, Lukas und Johannes symbolisieren sollen"]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (25 October 2023) notes: "This font looks very much like a Hainaut-type Renaissance font, of which you can find hundreds more to the west of Belgium. The limestone come from quarries around Arquennes, Feluy, Ecaussines, Maffle, etc… The font of Attre, église Saint-Martin, seems almost identical. The same is true for some other fonts in Denmark (Flynder) and the north of Germany (Tating, Vollerwiek, Katharinenheerd, Odenbüll, Nordstrand, Schobüll, Hollingstedt, Bergenhusen, Friedrichstadt (St. Christopherus)). Always referred to as “Namur”, but I think they are “Hainaut-type”. I have no idea yet how they ended up in this region. It could be by immigrant workers from Belgium and the Netherlands that helped rebuild the area after severe flooding [...] Sometimes these fonts carry mason’s marks, and can be attributed to “quarry masters”. I have been able to identify some."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.783583, 9.440889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 47′ 0.9″ N, 9° 26′ 27.2″ E

UTM: 32U 528355 6070798

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (sandstone additions)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German and numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the basin sides

Inscription Text: "1597 / [...]"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]