Bad Liebenwerda
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angel - cherub - 4
Scene Description: with open wings; set at 90-degree angles of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Assenmacher, 2015
Image Source: edted detail of a digital photograph 21 June 2015 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Liebenwerda_Nikolaikirche_Fünte.JPG] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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design element - motifs - fruit - 4
Scene Description: between the chrub heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Assenmacher, 2015
Image Source: edted detail of a digital photograph 21 June 2015 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Liebenwerda_Nikolaikirche_Fünte.JPG] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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human figure - face, head or mask - 4
Scene Description: on the sides of the square pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Assenmacher, 2015
Image Source: edted detail of a digital photograph 21 June 2015 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Liebenwerda_Nikolaikirche_Fünte.JPG] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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view of baptismal dish - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirche im Mitteldeutschland, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in the EKM's Ein alter Schatz ist zurückgekehrt [https://www.meine-kirchenzeitung.de/bad-liebenwerda/c-kirche-vor-ort/ein-alter-schatz-ist-zurueckgekehrt_a28134] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Nikolai-Kirche in Bad Liebenwerda"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © OnkelJohn, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2009 by OnkelJohn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Nikolai_Kirche_Liebenwerda_1.jpg] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Nikolai-Kirche (Marktkirche) in Bad Liebenwerda"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © SchiDD, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 30 January 2016 by SchiDD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LIB-Marktkirche-2.jpg] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Stadtpfarrkirche St. Nikolai in Bad Liebenwerda ist ein spätgotisches Bauwerk, dessen genaues Baudatum unbekannt ist. Nach einem Brand setzte sich Friedrich III. (Sachsen) dafür ein, sie im Jahr 1515 wieder aufzubauen. Aus den Jahren 1519 und 1544 sind Besuche Martin Luthers überliefert. Im Innern befinden sich eine neugotische Kanzel sowie eine prachtvolle Flachdecke, die August Oetken im Jahr 1911 gestaltete. Die Glasmalereien in den vier Fenstern des Chors zeigen die Taufe Jesu, Geburt, Kreuzung und Auferstehung Jesu Christi. Sie stammen aus dem Jahr 1908 und entstanden in der Werkstatt von Gerstner und Werner in Görlitz und gehen auf Stiftungen des Apothekers Liebe sowie dem Büromaschinenhersteller Reiss zurück. Sehenswert ist weiterhin eine Fünte aus Sandstein aus dem Jahr 1671. sowie ein überlebensgroßes Kruzifix vor einem Triumphkreuz an der Südwand, das vermutlich aus dem 16. oder 17. Jahrhundert stammt." -- showing the top of the baptismal font behind the benches on the left, left of the altar, right of the psalms board, with a vase of flowers on top
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Assenmacher, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 21 June 2015 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Liebenwerda_Nikolaikirche_Schiff_und_Chor.JPG] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein. Sandstein. Liebenwerda"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek / Reinecke, Hans, 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1989 photograph [Aufn.-Nr.: df_hauptkatalog_0264444] by Hans Reinecke, in the Deutsche Fotothek [http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/33078595] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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view of font and baptismal dish in context
Scene Description: the ceremony of the restoration of the old (1671) baptismal dish to the church: Werner Lindner, Kunstsammler Wolfgang Schröder and Bürgmeister Johannes Berger shown around the font and its baptismal dish
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirche im Mitteldeutschland, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in the EKM's Ein alter Schatz ist zurückgekehrt [https://www.meine-kirchenzeitung.de/bad-liebenwerda/c-kirche-vor-ort/ein-alter-schatz-ist-zurueckgekehrt_a28134] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "eine Fünte aus Sandstein aus dem Jahr 1671" -- the small inner basin was probably never intended to hold the holy water inside, but rather be used to fit a baptismal dish on top
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Assenmacher, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 21 June 2015 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Liebenwerda_Nikolaikirche_Fünte.JPG] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken aus Zinn wieder in Kirche" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Werner Lindner, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2021 in Werner Lindner [https://www.badliebenwerda.de/nun-waechst-wieder-zusammen-was-zusammen-gehoert/] [accessed 9 June 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25544LIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Nikolai / Nikolaikirche Bad Liebenwerda
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Markt 24, 04924 Bad Liebenwerda, Germany -- Tel.: 035341 2264
Country Name: Germany
Location: Elbe-Ester, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Located off (N) of road 183, on the S bank of the Schwarze Elster river, about 55 km NNW of Dresden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Date: 1671 (5 June 1671)
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Baroque
Church Notes: church here probably by 1231; documented 1376; destroyed in 1490 fire; re-built early-16thC; further damage, arson, etc. and restorations since
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Evagelische Kirchengemiende Bad Liebenwerda / EKM [https://www.kirche-badliebenwerda.de/gemeinde-und-kirchen/bad-liebenwerda-0421/st-nikolai-kirche/] [accessed 9 June 2024] reports a baptismal font made of sandstone in the early-Baroque period bearing the date 5 June 1671 on the basin; also on the basin are angels with hanging fruit bunches between them, while the square pedestal is decorated with stylised male masks ["der Taufstein (aus Sandstein) mit frühbarockem Dekor, datiert: 5. Juni 1671, an der achteckigen Kuppa Engelsflüchte zwischen Fruchtgehängen, am quadratischen Schaft charaktervolle, meisterhaft stilisierte Männermasken"] [NB: the same source notes that the font was moved to its present more spacious location in 2020]. The story of the recovery of the 350-year old baptismal dish and its restoration in the church is narrated in Werner Lindner [https://www.badliebenwerda.de/nun-waechst-wieder-zusammen-was-zusammen-gehoert/] [accessed 9 June 2024] and in the EKM's Ein alter Schatz ist zurückgekehrt [https://www.meine-kirchenzeitung.de/bad-liebenwerda/c-kirche-vor-ort/ein-alter-schatz-ist-zurueckgekehrt_a28134] [accessed 9 June 2024]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.515778, 13.393396
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 56.8″ N, 13° 23′ 36.23″ E
UTM: 33U 388523 5708407
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [5 June 1671]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]