Kosel / Cosleve / Koslev

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design element - motifs - foliage or plant - 4

Scene Description: one on each side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: all around

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: showing two of them here

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information

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symbol - cross - Greek

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view of base - detail

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view of basin - upper view

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view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: now blocked

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - west end

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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 west

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view of church interior - organ

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view of church interior - organ - detail - musical angel

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view of church interior - organ - detail - musical angel

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view of church r - northwest view

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view of church r - southeast view

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view of church r - southeast view - detail

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view of church r - southwest end

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view of font and baptismal dish

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25773KOS

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Laurentius-Kirche Kosel

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: An. d. Kirche, Kosel, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located off (N) road L179, in the municipality and 5 km NW of Eckernförde, about 20 km E of Schleswig

Historical Region: Via Jutlandica

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, E side

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century (?), Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Rieseby

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the church staff for their welcome and access to the church on its font

Church Notes: 12thC church; documented as a chapel ca. 1300; renovated 1646, 1863 and 1968 -- Pilgrimage church in the Via Jutlandica

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Medieval baptismal font of granite noted in Teuchert (1986) with a baptismal dish of brass that was made in southern Germany in the 16th century. The font consists of a roughly-hemispherical basin decorated with a large vine all around, and a single Greek cross on one of the sides; on a round-to-square base decorated with a small human head at each upper corner, the side panels with a foliage motif on each. [cf. ImagesArea and FieldNotes for a detailed description of the decorations on the font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.505512, 9.751843

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 30′ 19.84″ N, 9° 45′ 6.64″ E

UTM: 32U 548683 6040028

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 12.5-13 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm*

Basin Depth: 22 cm*

Basin Total Height: 38 cm*

Height of Base: 50 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 51 x 54 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Teuchert, Wolfgang, Taufen in Schleswig-Holstein: Taufen in Stein, Bronze und Holz vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Heide: Boyens, 1986