Altenbruch / Cuxhaven-Altenbruch

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B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty - 4

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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: framing each of four figures of Christ in Majesty

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B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter

B04: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul

B05: Apostle or saint - with book - unidentified

B06: Apostle or saint - with bishop's mitre - unidentified

BBU01: inscription

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LBF01: human figure - standing - 4 (symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain))

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles, supporting the basin

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick auf den Doppelturm, die beiden Türme heißen Anna und Beate"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Joergens.mi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.-Nicolai_(Altenbruch)_016.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of 2 August 2008 by Ra Boe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuxhaven_Altenbruch_Kirche_Panorama_01(RaBoe).jpg] [accessed 18 February 2019]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

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view of church interior - baptistery

Scene Description: Source caption: "Der Taufkessel mit Umrandung und Abdeckung".

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Nicolai, Altenbruch: Blick in den Kirchenraum mit den 2 Emporen".

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font cover

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10846ALT

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Nicolai-Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: 27478 Altenbruch, Cuxhaven, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located off the B73, 8 km SE of Cuxhaven, 10 km W of Otterndorf, on the S bank of the Elbe stuary

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery

Date: ca. 1310?

Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Early Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Ulricus aus Bardowick?

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 Notes: church here first documented 1280;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Kroesen and Steensma (2004) write: "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." The elaborate Baroque font cover is decked with volutes and chubby cherubs, and has a dove finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.82406, 8.77201

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 49′ 26.62″ N, 8° 46′ 19.24″ E

UTM: 32U 484992 5963971

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: The Parish web site gives the German biblical citation: "Wer da gleubet und getauft wird - der wird selig werden - wer aber nicht gleubet der wird verdampt werden". 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" [NB: the inscription on this font appears to have only the first half of the biblical text]

Inscription Location: around the upper basin side

Inscription Text: "QUI BAPTIZATUR HOC SACRO FONTE LAVATUR" [mundus labatur et catholicus reputatur]

Inscription Source: [cf. supra]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1672 / Baroque

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004