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view of font in context - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2014 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Büsum_St._Clemens_Taufstein_Seitenansicht.JPG] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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view of font in context - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2009 by Misburg3014 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Büsum_-_St.Clemens_-_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: several, on the upper and lower sides of the basin

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 18 October 2014 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Büsum_St._Clemens_Taufstein_Seitenansicht.JPG] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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Christ - Christ in Majesty - holding book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction - Evangelists' symbols

Scene Description: the symbols of the Evangelists inscribed in tiny medallions

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inscription

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view of basin - south side

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the baptismal dish [Taufschale]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2014 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Büsum_St._Clemens_Taufschale.JPG] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - bell-cote

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2014 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Büsum_Glockenturm_mit_Ehrenhalle_02.JPG] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2009 by Misburg3014 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Büsum_-_St.Clemens_-_Nordostseite.jpg] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2015 by Radler59 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buesum_St._Clemens_Abend.jpg] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by joergens.mi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Büsum)_jm24157.jpg] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2014 by Assenmacher [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Büsum_St._Clemens_Altar_mit_Taufstein.JPG] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with a view of the font and the baptismal dish in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by joergens.mi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Büsum)_jm21687.jpg] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible in the chancel, by the altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by joergens.mi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Büsum)_jm21674.jpg] [accessed 8 April 2018]

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human figure - standing - 4

NB: Enlart's identification as the symbol of the four rivers of paradise is not supported by any symbol here, unlike, for example, in the font at Hildesheim

Scene Description: NB: Enlart's identification as the symbol of the four rivers of paradise is not supported by any symbol here, unlike, for example, in the font at Hildesheim

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03199BUS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: [ca. 1300?]

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic

Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Büsum, Marne, Altenbruch, Borstel, Oederquart and Holdenstedt, are very similar and perhaps reproduced from the same models [cf. FontNotes]

Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Clemens-Kirche zu Büsum [aka Fischerkirche]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Clement

Church Notes: original church of ca. 1140 (?) destroyed by fire in 1362; re-built church also burned down; present church re-built 1442; modified 18thC; church is oriented SE rather than E

Church Address: 25761 Büsum, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4834 9605946

Site Location: Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Directions to Site: Büsum or Büsen is located near Heide, in Nordfriesland, about 50 km NW of Itzehoe

Font Notes: Click to view

Enlart (1902) writes: "la cuve en laiton de Büsum est pareillement soutenue par les figures des quatre Fleuves" [Géon, Phison, Tigre, Euphrate]. Described and illustrated in Kroesen and Steensma (2004): "A number of fonts borne by three or four human figures date from the second half of the thirteenth century. They are standing on a ring on the ground that makes the font an optically stronger unit. The human figures are no longer stiff, straight figures but have the natural posture of someone bearing a heavy load and the folds of their garments suggest the style of the early Gothic. Six fonts of this type are identical to each other, which reveals that they could be reproduced from the same models. They are the fonts in Büsum [...], Marne, Altenbruch, Borstel and Oederquart, near the Elbe stuary and Holdenstedt near Lüneburg. Only the shape of the letters of the inscription betrays that these fonts were worked on by different people. The wall of the bowl has a small band at the top with the following inscription [...] [cf. Inscription area]. Under the inscription is a relief of a large enthroned Christ repeated four times. It takes up the entire height of the wide middle zone and is surrounded by four small medallions with the symbols of the evangelists. Apart from them, in this zone there are St Peter and St Paul, a saint with a book and a saint with a bishop's mitre." There is no font cover present, but there are two anchoring spots at opposite ends of the upper rim that were part of the original font and meant to accommodate a rod-type locking system for a font cover.

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 490935 5997951

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.129611, 8.861278

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 7′ 46.6″ N, 8° 51′ 40.6″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: around the upper basin side

Inscription Text: "QUI BAPTIZATUR HOC SACRO FONTE LAVATUR / MUNDUS LAB[atur] ET CATHOLICUS REPUTATUR"

Inscription Notes: Kroesen and Steensma (2004) give translation after Teuchert (1986): "Whoever is baptised by this holy fount shall be cleansed , the world may perish, but the baptised shall be counted as believers"

Inscription Source: Kroesen and Steensma (2004)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 781 footnote 3
Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004, p. 353-354