Hohenwerbig
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church in Niemegk-Hohenwerbig in Brandenburg, Germany"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Doris Antony, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2006 by Doris Antony [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niemegk_Hohenwerbig_Church.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2025]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dorfkirche Hoherwerbig, Dorfstraße Hohenwerbig, 14823 Hohenwerbig"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans G. Oberlack, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 20 April 2018 by Hans G. Oberlack [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorfkirche_Hohenwerbig_2018_SE.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2025]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Beling-Brandenburg e.V., 2025
Image Source: digital photograph in Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Beling-Brandenburg e.V. [https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-hohenwerbig] [accessed 8 February 2025]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stiftung KIBA, 2025
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Stiftung KIBA [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/dorfkirche-hohenwerbig] [accessed 8 February 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25828HOH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche Hohenwerbig
Church Location: Dorfstraße Hohenwerbug, 14823 Niemegk, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road L82 [aka Dorfstraße Hohenwerbig], in the municipality of Niemegk, 25-30 km N of Lutherstadt Wittenberg, about 50 km SW of Potsdam
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th century (?), Late Romanesque / Transitional
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: late-Romanesque church of early-13thC; modified 19thC
Font Notes:
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The Hohenwerbig (Ev. Dorfkirche) site [http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~engeser/potsdam-mittelmark/hohenwerbig/hohenwerbig.html] [accessed 8 February 2024] lists references for the baptismal font of Hohenwerbig in the following sources: Dehio/Potsdam: "Taufe, Sandstein" and Dehio/Brandenburg: "Spätromanische Sandsteintaufe, kelchförmig mit schwerer Kuppa." In Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in der DDR: "Taufstein 13. Jh." In Historisches Ortslexikon für Brandenburg: "Taufstein 13." In Gericke, Schleiff und Wendland (1974) as having a dodecagonal basin: "Von den alten Ausstattungsstücken sind bemerkenswert eine Sandsteintaufe, wohl noch spätmittelalterlich, deren Becken zum Zwölfeck gebrochen ist". In Pfeifer (1997) as dodecagonal and from the Transitional period: "Das dritte und äußerst sehenswerte alte Element ist der Taufstein, dessen mächtige, oben zwölfeckige Kuppa noch in romanische Zeit gehören könnte, wenn da nicht der Beckenträger wäre, (eine viel zu schmächtige niedrige Säule), so daß an eine Übergangszeit zur Gotik gedacht werden könnte."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.046906, 12.705868
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 2′ 48.86″ N, 12° 42′ 21.13″ E
UTM: 33U 342681 5768739
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal