Hannover No. 1 / Hanover
Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
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Results: 17 records
B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 January 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [http://taufe.e-msz.de/lkh_taufe/de/content/4-2-4.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with book
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Matthew - with book
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Image Source: digital photograph in Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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B04: Apostle or saint - St. Gertrude of Nivelles - crowned - with church
Scene Description: Gertrude of Nivelles: 7thC abbess of the Benedictine Abbey of Nivelles (today in Belgium) [www.newadvent.org/cathen/06533c.htm] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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B05: Apostle or saint - St. Nicholas - with mitre
B06: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel
B07: Apostle or saint - St. Bernard - with mitre
Scene Description: this Bernhard may be St Bernard of Montjoux [b. ca. 1020 in Menthon, near Annecy, France] or St Bernard of Clairvaux, although neither of them became a bishop
B08: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Thomas - holding spear and book
Scene Description: the source [cf. FontNotes] describes the object as "Stab" [staff]
design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed - cinquefoiled intrados
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Image Source: digital photograph in Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 8
Scene Description: they are the columns of the arcade all around the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph in Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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human figure - male - kneeling (on one knee) - 3
Scene Description: they support the basin on their shoulders
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 January 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [http://taufe.e-msz.de/lkh_taufe/de/content/4-2-4.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the church was destroyed by Allied bombings in WWII; re-built 1950s in a simplified version
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hajotthu, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 February 2015 by Hajotthu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schloss-_und_Stadtkirche_St._Crucis_14.JPG] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ansichtskarte Nummer "1034" von Karl F. Wunder, um 1900. Zu sehen ist Kreuzkirche mit dem heute nicht mehr vorhandenem Anbau (des Gemeindehauses?). Im Vordergrund wäre heute eine Rasenfläche mit Grabsteinen zu sehen, die es so offensichtlich um 1900 gar nicht (mehr) gab. Am Ende des (heutigen) Ganges Kreuzkirchhof wäre heute die Kreuzklappe zu sehen als nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg aufgebauten Teils des Kreuzkirchenviertels."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernd Schwabe, 2012
Image Source: digital scan by Bernd Schwabe of a ca. 1900 B&W card by Karl Friedrich Wunder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_F._Wunder_PC_1034_Hannover._Kreuzkirche._Bildseite.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the church was destroyed by Allied bombings in WWII; re-built 1950s in a simplified version -- the dark blob at the east end of the nave, left [north] side, is the top of the 14thC baptismal font](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190309021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the church was destroyed by Allied bombings in WWII; re-built 1950s in a simplified version -- the dark blob at the east end of the nave, left [north] side, is the top of the 14thC baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Faessler, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2014 by Andreas Faessler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche-hannover.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [http://taufe.e-msz.de/lkh_taufe/de/content/4-2-4.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14560HAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Schloss- und Stadtkirche St. Crucis / Kreuzkirche
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross [originally dedicated to the St. Spiritus et Crucis]
Church Location: Kreuzkirchhof 3-1, 30159 Hannover, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Hannover, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located in the Mitte, the city centre, just N of the Ballhofplatz
Font Location in Church: Inside the re-built church, at the E end, N side
Date: ca. 1410?
Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hildesheim workshop?
Cognate Fonts: Einbeck [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: dedicated to the Holy Cross 1330; expanded and renovated through the centuries; destroyed in WWII; re-built 1959-1961
Font Notes:
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Lübke (1870) notes a metal font of the Gothic period "supported by three figures of men, and adorned with statuettes" in the Church of the Cross.
The font is described with full transcription of the inscriptions in the entry for this font in the Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]: baptismal font of bronze, consisting of a round basin raised on three kneeling male figures; the basin consists of an arcade of eight pointed arches, seven of which include a standing figure of an apostle or saint: Andrew holding book; Matthew holding book; Gertrud with a crown and church; Nicholas in bishop attire wearing mitre; Catherine with wheel; Bernard in bishop attire and mitre; Thomas with staff and book; the eighth frames a Crucifixion with Mary and John beneath the arms of the cross; there are inscriptions in Gothic minuscules with capitals in Gothic capitals on several areas of the basin [cf. Inscription field]; This same source suggests the stylistic affinity to the font at Einbeck St Alexandri, the work of Hennyngus Regnerus [Henning Rengher, ca. 1421-1427]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.3733, 9.7328
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22′ 23.88″ N, 9° 43′ 58.08″ E
UTM: 32U 549887 5802812
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on different areas of the basin
Inscription Text: 1) "inri"
2) "andreas S (anctus) mathhehus Gerdrudis · s (an) c (tus) [n] ycolaus · s (an) c (t) a · katerina ber (n) ward (us) sa (n) ctus · thomas · maria · ih (es) us · ioh (ann) es"
3) "Asperges · me · d (omi) ne · ysopo · et · mu (n) dabor · lauabis · me · et · super · new (m) · de · albabor b) 1) Uidi · aqua (m) · eg (re ) the (n) te (m) · de · te (m) plo · a late (re) · dext (ro) · alta (ris) · et · om (ne) s · ad · q (uo) s · p (er) ue (n) it · aq (ua) · ista · salui · f (a) c (t) i · su (n) t ·"
Inscription Source: Inschriftenkatalog: Stadt Hannover [www.inschriften.net/hannover/inschrift/nr/di036-0014.html#content] [accessed 9 March 2019]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal, bronze?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [low-dome with knob handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870