Ostonnen / Hostinen / Ostönnen
Image copyright © Ev. Kirchengemeinde Ostönnen, 2016
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the font as exhibited ca. 1920 at the Burghofmuseum in Soest; the font was returned to the church in 1964
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev. Kirchengemeinde Ostönnen, 2016
Image Source: 1920 postcard "Düllberg-Kirchenkarten",
reproduced in the Ev. Kirchengemeinde Ostönnen [http://kirche.ostoennen.de/kirche/] [accessed 31 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 168 fig. 12)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 24 - columns with bases
Scene Description: like niches all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 168 fig. 12)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 168 fig. 12)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: the church in the context of the village
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Kramer, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2014 by Michael Kramer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soest-Ostönnen_St_Andreas_FFSN-274.jpg] [accessed 31 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fotomoppel, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 December 2010 by Fotomoppel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ev._St.Andreas-Kirche_SOEST-Ostönnen.jpg] [accessed 31 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02573OST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Group A2 [Drake]
Museum: for a time at the Burghofmuseum in Soest, until 1964
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Dorfkirche St.-Andreas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: tower dated to early-12thC, nave to the late-12thC; early-13thC murals uncovered ca.1960; church here first documented 1169; restored 1978-1979
Church Address: Kirchpl. 12, Ostönnen, 59494 Soest, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2928 239
Site Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) Werler-Landstrasse, N of highway 44, WSW of Soest, 30 km ENE of Dortmund, 50 km WSW of Paderborn
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Köln
Additional Comments: disused font (for a time at the Burghofmuseum in Soest) / restored font (returned to the church in 1964)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Ludrof (1914). Noted and illustrated in Ligtenberg (1915). Noted in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the "Bentheim School, Group A2, modified cylinder", a group in which this author includes the fonts at Bersenbrück, Büttel, Emsbüren, Enschede, Epe, Ermelo, Gimpte, Herzlake, Holtland, Ochtrup, Ostönnen, Otterloo, Ueffeln. Noted and illustrated in the Ev. Kirchengemeinde Ostönnen [http://kirche.ostoennen.de/] [accessed 31 January 2016], which reports the font being in the courtyard at the Burghofmuseum in Soest until its return to the church in 1964. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with low-relief arcade of 24 (?) round arches on columns with bases all around, with two thick roll mouldings below; on a plain round base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 430729 5711271
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.548278, 8.000972
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 32′ 53.8″ N, 8° 0′ 3.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 177
- Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; p. 168 fig. 12
- Ludorf, L., Die Bau- und Kunftdenkmäler von Westfalen, Paderborn: Komissions Verlag Von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1914, p. 66