Klessen / Clestim / Cletzin / Kleßen
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Denkmalgeschützte Dorfkirche in Kleßen, Landkreis Havelland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kvikk, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2014 by Kvikk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kleßen_Dorfkirche.JPG] [accessed 16 June 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Nauen-Rathenow, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2018 in the Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Nauen-Rathenow [https://kirche-nauen-rathenow.de/images/Kirchen/Kleßen/oben/1Kleßen.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25561KLE
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche Kleßen
Church Location: Dorfstraße 15, 14728 Kleßen-Görne, Germany -- Tel.: 033235-22611
Country Name: Germany
Location: Havelland, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Located off local road L17 [aka Dorfstraße], in the municipality and 2-3 km N of Kleßen-Görne, 60-70 km WNW of Berlin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Date: 1607
Century and Period: 17th century(early), Baroque
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: a church/chapel of ease to Görne reported here in 1541; present Dofkirche built 1698
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The entry for this church in the Westhavelland site [https://www.westhavelland.de/seite/367677.html] [accessed 16 June 2024] reports a wooden font of 1607 ["hölzerne Taufe aus dem Jahre 1607"] in this church. Baptismal font dated by a 1607 inscription recording the donation of a local farmer, and said to be from an earlier church here; decorated all over, painted and bearing a number of inscriptions on the cover; some lion heads on the scroll ribs of the base. Font cover to match.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.74041,
12.494398
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 44′ 25.48″ N,
12° 29′ 39.83″ E
UTM: 33U 330856 5846338
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
wood
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: yes; pulley/counterweight
Notes: painted all over and with inscriptions