Amelungsborn No. 2 / Amelunxborn / Kloster Amelungsborn nr. Negenborn / Kloster Amelunxen

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02542AME
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Konigsluter workshop [Wulf]
Church / Chapel Name: Klosterkirche St. Marien zu Amelungsborn / Evangelisch-lutherischen Zisterzienserkloster Amelungsborn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wall-mounted on the E wall of the choir
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church originally built 1135-1150 -- abbey still active in the 21stC
Church Address: K;oster Amelungsborn, 37643 Negenborn, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5532 8300
Site Location: Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the B64, SW of Hildesheim and Hannover
Ecclesiastic Region: [Bistum Hildesheim?]
Font Notes:
Wulf (1996) mentions a number of piscinae on the eastern wall of the choir, of which two are decorated with "colonnes fasciculees et des piliers, avec elegants reliefs a rinceaux et palmettes en eventail, ainsi que des bandes a spirales en pointes de diamant, d'une qualite extraordinaire"; he dates them to the second half of the 12th century and traces them to the Konigslutter workshop. [NB: it is not known whether they are stoups or piscinae for ablutions].

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 540803 5749749
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.897, 9.593
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 49.2″ N, 9° 35′ 34.8″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

  • Wulf, Walter, Saxe romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1996, p. 40-42