Ballum

Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

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Results: 16 records

animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with bow and arrow - passant-regardant

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche Ballum. Romanischer Taufstein ( 1200 ): Zentaur mit Pfeil und Bogen" -- passant to the right but turned backwards to shoot an arrow at the dragon in the previous panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_3.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - foliated tail - passant

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche Ballum. Romanischer Taufstein ( 1200 ): Drache" -- passant to the right and perhaps chasing the centaur in the next panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_2.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail - passant-gardant

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche Ballum. Romanischer Taufstein ( 1200 ): Löwe"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_4.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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animal - mammal - quadruped - knotted tail - passant

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche Ballum. Romanischer Taufstein ( 1200 ): Unidentifizierbares Tier" -- passant to the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_5.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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design element - architectural - column - 5

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_1.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: at the top of each of the outer colonnettes

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_1.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: Forms the bases of the pedestal columns of the base.

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_1.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche Ballum. Romanischer Taufstein ( 1200 ): Männlicher Kopf" -- one of four

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_6.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche von Ballum"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2010 by Fitzbruno [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_Kirke.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ballum Kirke, 2021"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Dahlstrøm Nielsen, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 14 April 2021 by Thomas Dahlstrøm Nielsen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_Kirke,_2021.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ballum Kirke, 2021"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Dahlstrøm Nielsen, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 14 April 2021 by Thomas Dahlstrøm Nielsen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_Kirke,_2021.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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view of church interior - apse - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche Ballum. Romanische Kalkmalereien ( 12.Jhdt. ) mit Darstellungen der Apostel in der Apsis"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Fresken_Apsis_12.Jhdt_1.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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view of church interior - apse - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche Ballum. Romanische Kalkmalereien ( 12.Jhdt. ) mit Darstellungen der Apostel in der Apsis"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Fresken_Apsis_12.Jhdt_2.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick durch die Ballum Kirke zum Altar und zu der Kanzel. Aufnahmedatum 2011-05."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxfordian Kissuth, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 20 February 2016 by Oxfordian Kissuth [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_Kirke_-_Altar_und_Kanzel.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche Ballum. Romanischer Taufstein ( 1200 )"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 17 July 2008 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_-_Taufstein_1.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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view of font and baptismal dish in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Altarraum und Taufbecken der Ballum Kirke. Aufnahmedatum 2011-05."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxfordian Kissuth, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 20 February 2016 by Oxfordian Kissuth [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballum_Kirke_-_Altar.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00495BAL
Church/Chapel: Ballum Kirke / Tufstenskirke
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra [in the 16thC]
Church Location: Vesterende 31B, 6261 Bredebro, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 74 71 62 34
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Sydjylland, Syddanmark
Directions to Site: Located off local road 419, in the municipality of Tønder, 20 km W of Logumkloster
Ecclesiastic Region: Ribe Stift
Historical Region: Tønder amt / Tønder-Højer-Lø herreder
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, centre aisle
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font?
Cognate Fonts: Tønder, Højer, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: Romanesque church of tufa stone from the Rhine area ca. 1150; nave added ca. 1200; red brick tower added ca. 1500
Described in Sauermann (1904: 6ff). Described and illustrated in Mackeprang (1941, 2003) with reference to Sauermann, as a 'Namurfontene' baptismal font imported from Belgium. Mackeprang lists it in a chapter dedicated to "Importerede Kalk og Sandstensfonte, II Vestlig Import: Belgien og Nordvesttyskland". Described and illustrated in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Sjyll_1401-1418.pdf p. 488 and fig. 13] [accessed 21 November 2021] as a baptismal font imported from Belgium and made of Namur limestone and similar to the one at Højer ["Døbefont (fig. 13), romansk, af sort Namur-kalksten, et belgisk importstykke, ret nøje svarende til Højer (p. 1037 med lit.henvisn.). Kummens ydre tværmål er 96—97 cm, det indre ca. 70. I felternemellem de fire fremspringende menneskehoveder ses: 1) drage, forfølgende 2) kentaur, som med pil på bue sigter mod forfølgeren, 3) løve med hale over ryggen og endende i to akantusblade og 4) ubestemmeligt dyr med knude på halen. Indtil 1861 var fonten indvendig beklædt med »4re til hinanden naglede, tynde Kaaber-Plader«35. 1957—58 underkastedes fonten en gennemgribende istandsættelse af billedhugger Vitus Nielsen; ved denne lejlighed viste det sig, at store dele var fornyet i sortmalet cement, kun een af småsøjlerne var intakt, plinten manglede tre hjørner og profilerne var overalt stærkt forvitrede. Ved restaureringen fjernedes desuden en 12 cm tyk cementforing i kummen. De manglende dele nyhuggedes i Namur-sten, og fonten, der tidligere havde stået nordvest for alteret (jfr. †fontehimmel) og enere omtrent midt i korgulvet, anbragtes nu på en blyplade smst." Baptismal font restored in the 1950s by Valdemar Vitus Nielsen. Brass baptismal dish of 1860.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.090297, 8.6582
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 5′ 25.07″ N, 8° 39′ 29.52″ E
UTM: 32U 478185 6104893

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur marble)
Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 96-97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Danmarks Kirker

REFERENCES

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941
Sauermann, Ernst, Die Mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, 1904