Holdenstedt

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."