Burgdorf (Hannover)

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - angel holding clothes

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ on the extreme left of the image: an angel holds the clothes

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

B02: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Creation of Adam

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

B03: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Creation of Eve - Eve emerges from Adam's body

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

B04: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Garden of Paradise - God warns Adam and Eve not to eat from tree of Knowledge

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

B05: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

B06: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall: Adam and Eve in paradise (after the Fall) (Genesis 3:8-21)

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

B07: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - labours of Adam and Eve

Scene Description: Adam and Eve toiling on Earth. Eve spinning and Adam cutting down a tree.

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

B08: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - angel holding clothes - dove present

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the modern baptismal dish on it

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2010 by losch [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pankratiuskirche_in_Burgdorf_IMG_3226.jpg] [accessed 18 December 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2008 by Rabanus Flavus [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burgdorf_StPankratius_Innen.jpg] [accessed 18 December 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: the pedestal is modern; the font is located in the new church at Burgdorf

Image Source: digital image of a 25 June 1997 photograph by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00097BUR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Museum and Inventory Number: [the font was at the Niedersachsischen Landesgalerie in Hannover for several years]

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Pankratius-Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]

Church Location: Spittaplatz 1, 31303 Burgdorf, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5136 3881

Country Name: Germany

Location: Hannover, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 443, 20-22 km NE of Hannover

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Hildesheim

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the N side of the apse [was earlier in the museum at Hannover for several years]

Date: ca. 1200? [Pudelko]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [altered font]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: The old church burnt down in the 19th century and a newer one stands now in the same site.

Font Notes: Click to view

Only the original basin remains of this font: it is roughly hemispheric in shape and covered in ornamentation; the upper part of the basin side has the remains of an inscription, most of it missing now; the basin sides include a scene of the Baptism of Christ and the Genesis scenes of Adam and Eve from creation to expulsion from Eden. It is now raised on a modern cylindrical pedestal. No cover present. [NB: many sources, including Davies (1962) and Nordström (1984), locate this font the Niedersachsischen Landesgalerie in Hannover, where it had been for a long time, but our visit to the Kirchenkreis Burgdorf in June 1997 verified that the font is back in Burgdorf itself, now in its new church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.446139, 10.006818

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 46.1″ N, 10° 0′ 24.55″ E

UTM: 32U 568428 5811138

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two (only the basin is original)

Font Shape: chalice-shaped / hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 14 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 82 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 47 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Height of Base: 40 cm* [modern]

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm* [includes modern base]

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: Around the upper rim - but this has been broken in most parts and is mostly illegible

REFERENCES

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984