Ballum
Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2008
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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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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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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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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 - 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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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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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 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 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 - 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 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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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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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 - 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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00495BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font?
Cognate Fonts: Tønder, Højer, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Ballum Kirke / Tufstenskirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra [in the 16thC]
Church Notes: Romanesque church of tufa stone from the Rhine area ca. 1150; nave added ca. 1200; red brick tower added ca. 1500
Church Address: Vesterende 31B, 6261 Bredebro, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 74 71 62 34
Site Location: Sydjylland, Syddanmark, Denmark, Europe
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
Additional Comments: imported font (originally from Belgium)
Font Notes:
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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.
Baptismal font restored in the 1950s by Valdemar Vitus Nielsen. Brass baptismal dish of 1860.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 478185 6104893
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 55.090297, 8.6582
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 5′ 25.07″ N, 8° 39′ 29.52″ E
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, p. 65
- Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941, p. 364, 366, 387, pl. 365
- Sauermann, Ernst, Die Mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, 1904, p. 6ff