Grossenwiehe / Großenwiehe / Store Vi Kirke

Results: 28 records

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angel

Scene Description: putto-like, standing in an atlante pose

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral and foliage

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information

Scene Description: posted inside the church

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information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

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view of church exterior - detail - mason's mark

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior - alms box

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view of church interior - altar and retable

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the 17thC font and cover on the left, in the northwest corner of the nave

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board

Scene Description: the wooden pulpit of 1630

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view of church interior - retable - detail

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view of church interior - retable - detail

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view of church interior - retable - detail

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view of church interior - retable - detail

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view of church interior - statue - Christ

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view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: the child's head missing

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view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: the child's head missing

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view of font

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view of font - upper view

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view of font and baptismal dish - upper view

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing the 17thC font and cover on the left, in the northwest corner of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2023 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2023 by BSI

view of font cover

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view of font cover

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view of font cover - detail - inscription

Scene Description: with the date 1694

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25770GRO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Laurentiuskirche zu Großenwiehe / Store Vi Kirke

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Dorfstraße, 24997 Großenwiehe, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the L14-K67 crossroads, about 20 km WSW of Flensburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave

Date: 1694

Century and Period: 17th century (late), Baroque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tonder workshop

Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Fahretoft and Løgumkloster

Church Notes: late-12thC fieldstone church; modified and expanded mid-18thC; renovated 1950s and 1980s

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font of hexagonal design, made of wwod in 1694, as dated by an inscription on the comtemporary font cover; the font sides are decorated with a large putto-like angel surrounded in deeply-carved floral and foliage motifs; the cover, suspended above, is a towering canopy decorated with figures, motifs, symbols and bears the date of the donation as well as the names of the donors [cf. infra]. Noted in Riechert (2010) as a baptismal font and cover/canopy donated by the "hochgräfl. rantzauischen Raths" Michael Gude and his wife Anna, in 1694.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.707652, 9.249998

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 42′ 27.55″ N, 9° 14′ 59.99″ E

UTM: 32U 516108 6062289

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

Font Shape: hexagonal

Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Rim Thickness: 13-16 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 57-65 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 83-96 cm*

Basin Total Height: 75 cm*

Height of Base: 15 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1694

Material: wood

Apparatus: yes; counterweight

Notes: tall canopy [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Riehert, Kirsten, "Taufbecken in Nordelbien zwischen 1500 und 1914: Gestalt- und Bedeutungswandel eines Prinzipalstücks", Dissertation_Riechert_Taufbecken_Nordelbien.pdf [accessed 28 Oct 2022, Hamburg, 2010