Gielow
Image copyright © Peter Schmelzle, 2011
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Gielow während der Sanierung 2011"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Schmelzle, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2011 by Peter Schmelzle [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gielow-Kirche-Sanierung2011-b.JPG] [accessed 9 February 2025]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Gielow [...] Taufstein [...] Granit [...] Ikonographie: 31A221 * Kopf (als Teil des menschlichen Körpers)"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gielow [...] Taufstein [...] Granit [...] Ikonographie: 31A221 * Kopf (als Teil des menschlichen Körpers)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph in the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, in the Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur [https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20602209] [accessed 9 February 2025]
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animal - head
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gielow [...] Taufstein [...] Granit [...] Ikonographie: 31A221 * Kopf (als Teil des menschlichen Körpers)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph in the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, in the Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur [https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20602209] [accessed 9 February 2025]
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animal - head
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gielow [...] Taufstein [...] Granit [...] Ikonographie: 31A221 * Kopf (als Teil des menschlichen Körpers)" -- showing a very sketchy head highlighted (in paint?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph in the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, in the Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur [https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20602209] [accessed 9 February 2025]
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human figure - standing
Scene Description: showing a human figure on the right, next to an arch-head topped with a large lilly
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph in the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, in the Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur [https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20602209] [accessed 9 February 2025]
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design element - architectural - arch-head?
Scene Description: several of them around the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stiftung KiBa, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph in Stiftung KiBa [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/dorfkirche-gielow] [accessed 9 Fberuary 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-gielow] [accessed 9 Fberuary 2025]
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view of font in context - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stiftung KiBa, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph in Stiftung KiBa [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/dorfkirche-gielow] [accessed 9 Fberuary 2025]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25829GIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (?) [basin only], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, E end, near the pulpit
Church Notes: 14thC church; re-built 1890s;
Church Address: Straße der Einheit 60, 17139 Gielow, Germany -- Tel.: +49 39957 20342
Site Location: Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off local road L202 [aka Malchiner Str.], in the municipality and 6 km S of Malchin, about 65 km SE of Rostock
Additional Comments: altered font (the pedestal base is modern)
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in the Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur, 2025 [https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20602209] [accessed 9 February 2025]. Baptismal font of stone consisting of two parts: a modern pedestal base and a roughly barrel-shaped basin covered in multiple carvings that include a human figure, a sketchy human head, animal heads, arch-heads, floral, foliage, etc. A wooden cover with a large decorated handle is on it [cf. ImagesArea]. Illustrated in Stiftung KiBa [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/dorfkirche-gielow] [accessed 9 February 2025]. Illustrated in the Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur [https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20602209] [accessed 9 February 2025].
A communication to BSI by Pol Herman (e-mail of 4 February 2025) reports a claim by local historian Hans Behn, member of the Malchiner Heimatverein, who is convinced that the basin at the church of Gielow and the base at the church of Malchin [cf. BSI entry] belong together [https://www.nordkurier.de/regional/mecklenburgische-schweiz/raetselhafter-taufstein-hat-seinen-platz-jetzt-in-der-kirche-3292237] [accessed 4 February 2025]; Pol Herman adds "I don’t know how he comes to this conclusion", and we wonder also what the claim is based on, other than the age of the object and the proximity of the two churches.
A communication to BSI by Pol Herman (e-mail of 4 February 2025) reports a claim by local historian Hans Behn, member of the Malchiner Heimatverein, who is convinced that the basin at the church of Gielow and the base at the church of Malchin [cf. BSI entry] belong together [https://www.nordkurier.de/regional/mecklenburgische-schweiz/raetselhafter-taufstein-hat-seinen-platz-jetzt-in-der-kirche-3292237] [accessed 4 February 2025]; Pol Herman adds "I don’t know how he comes to this conclusion", and we wonder also what the claim is based on, other than the age of the object and the proximity of the two churches.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 351362 5952013
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.695634, 12.748653
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 41′ 44.28″ N, 12° 44′ 55.15″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: barrel-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]