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East choir, Deacon

Naumburg Master13th century

State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of Sachsen-Anhalt

State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of Sachsen-Anhalt
Magdeburg, Germany

The statue represents a deacon – a clergyman who supported the priest during the mass. The Naumburg Master created it in the middle of the 13th century as a stone reading desk. From the late Middle Ages many “Atzmänner” are handed down, but the Naumburger is the oldest in the world!

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State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of Sachsen-Anhalt

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