Meinsdorf / Meynstorff
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design element - motifs - floral
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Zossen-Fläming, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2023 in Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Zossen-Fläming [https://www.kkzf.de/kirchen-im-niederen-flaeming] [accessed 8 February 2025]
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design element - moulding - foliated
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2023 in Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Zossen-Fläming [https://www.kkzf.de/kirchen-im-niederen-flaeming] [accessed 8 February 2025]
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inscription
Scene Description: 1611
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inscription - detail
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2023 in Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Zossen-Fläming [https://www.kkzf.de/kirchen-im-niederen-flaeming] [accessed 8 February 2025]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Niederer Fläming Ortsteil Meinsdorf. Die Kirche wurde 1853/1854 erbaut und steht unter Denkmalschutz."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Clemensfranz, 2009
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: showing the baptismal font towards the east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Zossen-Fläming, 2025
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view of font - west side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25827MEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche Meinsdorf
Church Location: 14913 Niederer Fläming, OT Meinsdorf, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Teltow-Fläming, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Located off road L713 [aka Meinsdorf], in the municipality of Niederer Fläming, about 65 km SSW of Berlin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end
Date: 1611
Century and Period: 17th century (early), Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: present church built 1853-1854
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Förderkreis Alte Kirchen BerlinBrandengurg e.V [https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-meinsdorf] [accessed 8 February 2025] reports a Renaissance baptismal font of 1611 in it. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Meinsdorf] [accessed 8 February 2025] mentions a baptismal font of 1611 in it. It is probably from an earlier church here. The font consists of an octagonal basin bearing a coat or armour on the west side, and painted inscriptions on other sides; the date 1611 is carved and paintin on the underbowl, below the coat of arms; on bulbous pedestal base, also octagonal.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8479, 13.268988
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 52.44″ N, 13° 16′ 8.36″ E
UTM: 33U 380767 5745538
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: 1) basin sides
2) underbowl, west side
Inscription Text: 1) "[...] / IHNEN NICHT / DEN SOLCHER / IST DAS REICH / GOTTES : -- IOHANNI AM 3. ES / SEI DAN DAS IMAND / GEBORN WERDE / AVS DEM WASSER / [...]"
2) "1.6.1.1."
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