Brechten

Results: 51 records

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left

Scene Description: seen here in the left (Gabriel) and centre (Mary) atches of the font [how much a re-carving? -- cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - detail

Scene Description: Mary holding a closed book in her left hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - detail

Scene Description: Gabriel holding a scroll in his left hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - detail

Scene Description: though probably not meant to be part of the Annunciation scene this spandrel is exceptional; the others are simply foliated

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

seen here in the three arches: Mary on the left; Christ on the cross in the centre; John in the left arch [how much a re-carving? -- cf. FontNotes]

Scene Description: seen here in the three arches: Mary on the left; Christ on the cross in the centre; John in the left arch [how much a re-carving? -- cf. FontNotes]

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Scene Description: John the Evangelist in the centre arch, part of the Crucifixion scene; in the right arch a partial view of Gabriel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Scene Description: John the Evangelist

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Scene Description: Christ wearing a cruciferous halo; wide cross; no wounds or nails visible; legs bent at the knees, feet resting on the ground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Scene Description: Mary in the arch left to Christ on the cross

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Scene Description: Mary holds her left hand with her right, a medieval symbol of grief

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

B03: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

John the Baptist has his right ranhd on Christ's head, his left hand on Christ's shoulder; a tall Christ 'wears' the waters of the Jordan

Scene Description: John the Baptist has his right ranhd on Christ's head, his left hand on Christ's shoulder; a tall Christ 'wears' the waters of the Jordan

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - 6 - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: each containin figures or scenes from the life of Christ [how much a re-carving? -- cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: varied designs; in the six spandrels of the arcade [how much a re-carving? -- cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end - detail

inscribed stone: "HENRICUS DE ESSENDE PARAVIT ME" [Heinrich von Essen hat mich erbaut] [NB: according to the source [http://www.lwl.org/@@afiles/51970126/dortmund_brechten_raumfassung_details_3.pdf] [accessed 26 October 2017] this is a copy of the original dedication (?) stone]

Scene Description: inscribed stone: "HENRICUS DE ESSENDE PARAVIT ME" [Heinrich von Essen hat mich erbaut] [NB: according to the source [http://www.lwl.org/@@afiles/51970126/dortmund_brechten_raumfassung_details_3.pdf] [accessed 26 October 2017] this is a copy of the original dedication (?) stone]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 November 2008 by Potupin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brechtenkirche3.jpg] [accessed 26 October 2017]

Copyright Instructions: PD-self

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - window

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - ceiling - painting

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - ceiling - painting

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - ceiling - painting

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting

Scene Description: on the north wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting

Scene Description: on the east wall, south side of the altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Scene Description: The ceiling at the west end of the nave; the rosette is on the west wall, above the west entrance way.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the back (east), left (north) side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - north side

Scene Description: Baptism of Chrit in the Jordan

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the north side of the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - east side

Scene Description: Gabriel (left) and Mary (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - north side

Mary holding a book in the left arch, part of the Annunciation scene; John the Baptist and Christ; Christ appears to 'wear' the waters of the Jordan

Scene Description: Mary holding a book in the left arch, part of the Annunciation scene; John the Baptist and Christ; Christ appears to 'wear' the waters of the Jordan

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - south side

Scene Description: John the Evangelist in the left arch, part of the Crucifixion scene; Gabriel in the right arch, part of the Annunciation scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - southeast side

Scene Description: John in the left arch; Gabriel in the centre arch; Mary in the right arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 06420BRE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Evangelische St.-Johann-Baptist-Kirche Brechten

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Widumer Platz 1, 44339 Dortmund, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located in the north-central part of the Stadtgebiet Dortmund

Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Paderborn

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the N side of the chancel arch, opposite the pulpit

Date: ca. 1270?

Century and Period: 13th century (late?) [re-carved?], Early Gothic [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Westphalian cylinder font

Church Notes: original church ca. 1250?; modified cqa. 1500; restored 1960-1962

Font Notes: Click to view

Lübke (1870) suggests that this font belongs "to the transition style of the thirteenth century". Noted in Roosval (1918) as a font of the Gothic period decorated with an Ogee arcade; Roosval (ibid.) comments on the unfortunate restoration of this font. Described and illustrated in Bolege-Vieweg (1998) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the mid-14th century [NB: Bolege-Vieweg may have dated the font so late on account of the re-carved surfaces -- cf. infra]. The font is roughly cylindrical in shape and ornamented with an arcade of six Gothic arches that contain figures and scenes from the life of Christ: Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, Annunciation, Crucifixion; the Annunciation occupies two arches (Gabriel - Mary); the Crucifixion is spread over three arches (Mary - Christ on the cross - John); the Baptism of Christ is fitted in a single arch. On-site notes: the font appears to have been re-carved in the restoration mentioned in Roosval above, to the point that it is difficult to get a sense as to what the original was like; the lower base is a modern replacement; a fixed glass covering did not allow us access to the interior for measurements; the statue of Mary in the Annunciation has lost her nose; a painted vine on the chancel wall resembles the vine on the font sides at Freckenhorst; there is no cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.580097, 7.468439

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 48.35″ N, 7° 28′ 6.38″ E

UTM: 32U 393879 5715448

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 12-13 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 69 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm

Basin Depth: 50 cm [approx.; not measured]

Basin Total Height: 89 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Bolege-Vieweg, Dore, Dortmunder Dorfkirchen: Schätze mittelalterlicher Kunst, Dortmund: Ruhfus, 1998

Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870