Grossenwiehe / Großenwiehe / Store Vi Kirke
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view of font and baptismal dish - upper view
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angel
Scene Description: putto-like, standing in an atlante pose
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
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view of church exterior - detail - mason's mark
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover in context
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view of church interior - looking west
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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 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 - altar and retable
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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
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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 - alms box
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information
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view of font cover - detail - inscription
Scene Description: with the date 1694
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25770GRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2023-06-14
Font Date: 1694
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century (late), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tonder workshop
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Fahretoft and Løgumkloster
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Laurentiuskirche zu Großenwiehe / Store Vi Kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: late-12thC fieldstone church; modified and expanded mid-18thC; renovated 1950s and 1980s
Church Address: Dorfstraße, 24997 Großenwiehe, Germany
Site Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the L14-K67 crossroads, about 20 km WSW of Flensburg
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 32U 516108 6062289
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.707652, 9.249998
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 42′ 27.55″ N, 9° 14′ 59.99″ E
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, p. 93