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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2

Scene Description: with a vine motif between them

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design element - motifs - vine

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human figure - 4 - crouching

Scene Description: crouching (?) at 90-degree angles of the central shaft of the base

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the centre aisle,towards the west end

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16139BER

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St-Servatius

Church Patron Saints: St. Servatius of Tongeren [aka Sarbatius, Servais, Servatius of Maastricht]

Country Name: Germany

Location: Osnabrück, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the L60/Hauptstrasse, in the municipality of Fürstenau, NNW of Osnabrück

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Osnabrück

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the centre of the nave, towards the W end

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge a. Type I [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: original church late-12thC

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Noted in Mithoff (1871-1880) and in Ligtenberg (1915). In Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of Bentheim sandstone that leads the group "Berge. a. Type I", made up of the fonts from Ankum 1, Arle, Berge, Borghorst, Emlichheim, Emstek, Gescher, Haselüne, Hattem, Jellum, Lastrup, Metelen, Münster Museum, Norg 1, Ochtelbur, Ramsdorf, Recke, Toornwerd, Vries amd Zweelo. Noted and illustrated in the Köster Genealogy [http://our-kin.com/Koster/History/StServatiusKirche.htm] [accessed 4 February 2016] the text from the German original in the church booklet: "The oldest piece of equipment of the church is the baptismal font of the Bentheimer type, today placed in the middle nave area. These baptismal fonts were produced in Bentheim and Gildenhaus from the sandstone that occurs there and about 100 examples remain in northwest Germany and the Netherlands. One can date them in the late Roman[esque] time (shortly after 1200). The baptismal font at Berge has special meaning because of the still partially recognizable colored style. The basin [...] rests on four crouching figures of men that are tied together in a ring. They could represent the unredeemed people, while the figure vessel that crushes them can symbolize the life outside of the grace of Baptism. In the lower region are recognizable palm motifs, which a grapevine which circles around the basin, alternately one recognized leaves and grapes. The rope ornament pictures again the upper end." There is no font cover present, but the font has a large metal baptismal dish on it used for baptisms.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.621347, 7.743389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 16.85″ N, 7° 44′ 36.2″ E

UTM: 32U 414934 5830891

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; r["References"]

Mithoff, Hector Wilhelm Heinrich, Kunstdenkmale und Alterthümer im Hannoverschen (7 Bände), Hannover: Helwing, 1871-1880