Zschepplin

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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Circumcision of Christ

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

New Testament - public life of Christ - Christ blessing the children

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Old Testament - Moses - crossing of the Red Sea

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

human figure - putti - holding shield - coat of arms - Von Ende Family - 4

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Stiftung zur Bewahrung kirchlicher Baudenkmäler in Deutschland [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/st-lucia-zschepplin] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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symbol - coat of arms or emblem - Von Ende Family - 4

Scene Description: one in each space between the scenes

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche St. Lucia in Zschepplin"

Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2014 by Jwaller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ZschepplinKirche2.JPG] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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view of font - east side

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font - west side

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view of font in context - east side

Image Source: digital photograph in Stiftung zur Bewahrung kirchlicher Baudenkmäler in Deutschland [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/st-lucia-zschepplin] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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view of font in context - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph in Stiftung zur Bewahrung kirchlicher Baudenkmäler in Deutschland [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/st-lucia-zschepplin] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph in Stiftung zur Bewahrung kirchlicher Baudenkmäler in Deutschland [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/st-lucia-zschepplin] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25830ZSC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Lucia zu Zschepplin

Church Patron Saints: St. Lucy [aka Lucia of Syracuse]

Church Location: Alte Dübener Straße, 04838 Zschepplin, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordsachsen, Sachsen

Directions to Site: Located off (E) road B107, about 30 km NE of Leipzig

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

Date: [ca. 1570?]

Century and Period: 16th century [late?], Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Heinrich Pilgram von Ende

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-15thC church; expanded ca. 1600; restored 1965-1969 and 1994+

Font Notes: Click to view

The entry for this church in Stiftung zur Bewahrung kirchlicher Baudenkmäler in Deutschland [https://www.stiftung-kiba.de/kirchen/st-lucia-zschepplin] [accessed 9 February 2025] mentions and illustrates a remarkable baptismal font by Heinrich Pilgram von Ende ["Im Inneren ist ein prächtiger Taufstein von Heinrich Pilgram von Ende"]. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lucia_(Zschepplin)] [accessed 9 February 2025] reports an elaborate sandstone baptismal font from ca. 1570; it consists of a basin decorated with four scenes: the Crossing of the Red Sea, the Circumcision and Baptism of Christ, and the Blessing of the Children; between the scenes are cartouches with the arms of the von Ende Family; on the base putti hold coats of arms, while the central shaft is decorated with foliage ["Die aufwändige Taufe aus Sandstein stammt aus der Zeit um 1570, am Fuß sind Putten mit Wappenschilden, am Schaft Blattwerk und an der Kuppa vier figurenreiche Reliefs mit einer Darstellung der Beschneidung, des Zugs durch das Rote Meer, der Segnung der Kinder durch Jesus und der Taufe Christi angeordnet, dazwischen Kartuschen mit Wappen der Familie von Ende."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.502231, 12.604525

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 8.03″ N, 12° 36′ 16.29″ E

UTM: 33U 333742 5708398

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round