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
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B02: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Creation of Adam
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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.
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B08: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - angel holding clothes - dove present
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view of font
Scene Description: the pedestal is modern; the font is located in the new church at Burgdorf
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © losch, 2010
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]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rabanus Flavus, 2008
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]
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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
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00097BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1997-06-25
Font Date: ca. 1200? [Pudelko]
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [altered font]
Museum: [the font was at the Niedersachsischen Landesgalerie in Hannover for several years]
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Pankratius-Kirche
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]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]
Church Notes: The old church burnt down in the 19th century and a newer one stands now in the same site.
Church Address: Spittaplatz 1, 31303 Burgdorf, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5136 3881
Site Location: Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 443, 20-22 km NE of Hannover
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Hildesheim
Additional Comments: recycled font: from old church; later in museum; now (1997) returned to the church / altered font (on a modern base)
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 568428 5811138
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.446139, 10.006818
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 46.1″ N, 10° 0′ 24.55″ E
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 System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 65, 83
- Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984, p. 98, 126, 128, 129, fig.73