Ebstorf / Ebsdorf / Kloster Ebstorf

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UBF01: human figure - male - standing - wearing headdress - detail

Scene Description: a casual and rather disengaged posture

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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UBF01: human figure - male - standing - wearing headdress

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UBF02: human figure - male - bearded - standing - detail

Scene Description: both hands supporting the font

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UBF02: human figure - male - bearded - standing

Scene Description: both hands supporting the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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UBF03: human figure - male - standing - wearing headdress - detail

Scene Description: like the first figure, a rather disengaged stance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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UBF03: human figure - male - standing - wearing headdress

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UBF04: human figure - male - bearded - standing

Scene Description: with both hands supporting the basin like the second figure

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the solid images supporting the basin, and the circle forming the lower base on which they rest

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view of font

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol?

Scene Description: is it Mark's lion?

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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ Child lying on Manger - animals - Joseph?

a medallion showing the two animal heads above the manger at the top; below is Mary facing left her right hand raised towards the Child Christ; a very large head on the left may be Joseph

Scene Description: a medallion showing the two animal heads above the manger at the top; below is Mary facing left her right hand raised towards the Child Christ; a very large head on the left may be Joseph

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inscription - detail

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inscription - detail

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inscription

Scene Description: A.D. 1310 [cf. Font notes]

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Christ - Christ in Majesty

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

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

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inscription

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: tentative identification [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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New Testament - Virgin Mary - Madonna with Christ-child

Scene Description: one Crucifixion and three versins of the Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - handle - 2

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view of basin

running inscription on the upper level; variety of figures and scenes on the middle level; inscription with date of font on the lower level

Scene Description: running inscription on the upper level; variety of figures and scenes on the middle level; inscription with date of font on the lower level

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view of basin

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view of basin - interior

there is little hole off centre; it was probably a later addition, as most of these bronze fonts were designed for use without a drain

Scene Description: there is little hole off centre; it was probably a later addition, as most of these bronze fonts were designed for use without a drain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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view of basin - upper view

showing the 'adaptor' for the baptismal dish; these early fonts were later adapted to using an insert dish for baptisms, than the font itself

Scene Description: showing the 'adaptor' for the baptismal dish; these early fonts were later adapted to using an insert dish for baptisms, than the font itself

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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view of context

Scene Description: the abbey grounds near the church; some of the buildings connect directly to the church building

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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view of context

Scene Description: the abbey grounds near the church; some of the buildings connect directly to the church building

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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view of context

Scene Description: the abbey grounds near the church; some of the buildings connect directly to the church building

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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view of context

Scene Description: the abbey grounds near the church; some of the buildings connect directly to the church building

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view of context

Scene Description: the abbey grounds near the church; some of the buildings connect directly to the church building

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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view of church exterior in context

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view of church exterior - north view - detail

Scene Description: the north portal visible here connects to the west end of the nave

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view of church exterior in context - northeast end

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view of church exterior - west end

Scene Description: the buildings in the centre and left are part of the abbey area

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view of church exterior - southeast end

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital image of an ill. by Matthäus Merian in vol. 15 of Topographia und Eigentliche Beschreibung Der Vornembsten Stäte, Schlösser auch anderer Plätze und Örter in denen Hertzogthümer[n] Braunschweig und Lüneburg, und denen dazu gehörende[n] Grafschafften Herrschafften und Landen (Franckfurt am Main, 1654-1658)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in its temporary location, a room off the north transept

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

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inscription - detail

Scene Description: "ME FECIT" has a medallion with the Nativity scene in it

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information

Scene Description: the interior of the abbey is fully modernised

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view of object

a reproduction of the Ebstorf Map; the original [ca. 1300?] was found in Ebstorf Kloster in 1843; it was destroyed in the Allied bombing of Hannover in 1943

Scene Description: a reproduction of the Ebstorf Map; the original [ca. 1300?] was found in Ebstorf Kloster in 1843; it was destroyed in the Allied bombing of Hannover in 1943

Image Source: digital stitching of images done 28 November 2007 by Kolossos [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ebstorfer-stich2.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2014]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16146EBS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Date Visited: 2014-08-06

Font Date: 1310

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early), Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hermannus [Herman] Clocghetere

Cognate Fonts: Neuenkirchen, etc.

Church / Chapel Name: Kloster Ebstorf, Gemeindekirche / Kloster St. Mauritius

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the choir [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]

Church Notes: originally founded ca. 1160 as the Priory of St. Mauritius for the Premonstratensian Canons Regular by Volrad von Bodwede, Count of Dannenberg, and nephew of Henry the Lion; became Benedictine convent in 13thC; converted to Lutheran convent in 1529, which remains to this day under the authority of a Lutheran abbess -- famous 13th-century 'Ebstorfer Weltkarte'; was destroyed in a 1943 bombing, but a facsimile copy exists at the abbey [www.landschaftsmuseum.de/seiten/Museen/Ebstorf0.htm] [accessed 12 March 2010]

Church Address: Kirchplatz 10, 29574 Ebstorf, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5822 2304

Site Location: Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe

Directions to Site: Located 12 km NW of Uelzen, 26 km S of Lüneburg. The abbey is located on Kirchplatz, Ebstorf

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated by Jochen Hermann Vennebusch's A ‘living fountain’ in bronze, in Wiebke Beyer, Karin Becker (eds): Artefact of the Month No 11, CSMC, Hamburg [https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/aom/011-en.html] [accessed 28 September 2023]. Noted and illustrated in Wehking (2009). On-site notes: due to the restoration work being carried out inside the church at the time of our visit [6 August 2014] the font had been temporarily moved to a room off the north transept; it is usually located in the chancel; there is no record of its original location. Baptismal font made of bronze in 1310, as dated by an inscription, in the traditional design favoured by bell-making workshops; the bucket-shaped basin has a flat moulding at the upper rim; the sides are divided into three horizontal registers that are separated by tripple parallel mouldings; on the upper register is an inscription in Gothic capitals: "SIT - FONS - VIVVS - AQVA - REGENERANS - UNDA - PVRIFICA[n]S]"; the second -middle- register has very small figures and scenes (Madonna and Child, the Three Magi, a Crucifixion, etc.); the bottom register has another inscription: "ANNO - D[omi]NI - Mº - CCCº - Xº - FACTVM - EST - VAS - HERMANVS - ME - FECIT"; two additional inscriptions are recorded on this font, both with the text: "INRI". Wehking (ibid.) identifies the "HERMANVS" of the inscription as Hermannus Clocghetere [a German bell-founder who is known to have worked between 1291 and 1317 [www.deutschefotothek.de/kue70056215.html#|home] [accessed 12 March 2010]]; the basin has two ear-shaped handles below the upper rim, and is raised on four standing figures located at 90-degree angles of the lower rim; the figures stand on a ring-shaped lower base and thier bodies are filled. The interior of the basin accommodates a supporting frame for a baptismal dish, both modern; there is a hole drilled off centre at the bottom of the basin interior, but it is quite likely a later addition.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the abbess and nuns at the Ebstorf convent for providing full access and learned guidance to the convent in general, and the font in particular, despite the renovations the church was undergoing at the time. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 594705 5876608

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.030607, 10.412217

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 1′ 50.18″ N, 10° 24′ 43.98″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: off-centre drain [cf.FontNotes]

Rim Thickness: 2.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 74-75 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 79-80 cm / 78 cm*

Basin Depth: 53-54 cm [approx.]

Basin Total Height: 54 cm

Height of Base: 40-41 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm / 95.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site / * Wehking (2009: 42)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: on the basin sides [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: 1. "SIT - FONS - VIVVS - AQVA - REGENERANS - UNDA - PVRIFICA[n]S" 2."ANNO - D[omi]NI - Mº - CCCº - Xº - FACTVM - EST - VAS - HERMANVS - ME - FECIT" 3 and 4. "INRI" [Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm]

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Wehking, Sabine, Die Inschriften der Lüneburger Klöster: Ebstorf, Isanhagen, Lüne, Medingen, Walsrode, Wienhausen, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2009, p. 41-42 and Tafel 34, Abb. 79/80