Luneburg No. 1 / Lueneburg / Lüneburg
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Results: 27 records
Apostle or saint - Evangelists?
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angel - cherub - head
Scene Description: several
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: several
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design element - motifs - foliage
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design element - motifs - foliage
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design element - motifs - geometric
Scene Description: in some of the decorative bands around the basin -- notice the lock on the upper side
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: two of them gare ilded rope mouldings
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design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: in some of the decorative bands around the basin
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inscription
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inscription
Scene Description: on the scrolls held by the supporting figures
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inscription
Scene Description: around the upper surface of the lower base is the inscription that identifies the maker and the date of the font
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Johanniskirche vom Wasserturm aus gesehen, Lüneburg (Panoramaansicht aus 14 Einzelbildern zusammengefügt)."
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Straße am Sande mit Blick auf St. Johannis in Lüneburg". [NB: the oddly-shaped top is real, not a photographic distortion
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2011 by Nikater [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lüneburg-amsande02.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: the main retable in the Johanniskirche, Lüneburg, (ca. 1430–1485): all wings closed
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: the main retable in the Johanniskirche, Lüneburg, (ca. 1430–1485): showing the inner painted wings
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2018 by Hajotthu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hauptaltar_St._Johanniskirche_Lüneburg@20180314.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: the main retable in the Johanniskirche, Lüneburg, (ca. 1430–1485): with the wings fully opened
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view of church interior - altar and retable
![the late-Gothic (1507-1508) Taufaltar [Christening altar] in the Johanniskirche, Lüneburg, (ca. 1430–1485)](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180416047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the late-Gothic (1507-1508) Taufaltar [Christening altar] in the Johanniskirche, Lüneburg, (ca. 1430–1485)
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: notice the main retable with its wings closed
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: notice the retable with only the internal wings opened
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view of church interior - north aisle - looking east
![with the metal font at the far [east] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180416049_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the metal font at the far [east] end
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view of church interior - retable
![the late-Gothic (1507-1508) Taufaltar [Christening altar] in the Johanniskirche, Lüneburg, (ca. 1430–1485)](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180416048_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the late-Gothic (1507-1508) Taufaltar [Christening altar] in the Johanniskirche, Lüneburg, (ca. 1430–1485)
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view of font
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the protruding lock on the side of the basin
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2010 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lüneburg_St_Johannis_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
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view of font cover
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view of font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by Julen Bengoetxea
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16259LUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Johanniskirche in Lüneburg [orig. from Lambertikirche?]
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: Bei der St.Johanniskirche, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Lüneburg, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway 209, 45 km SE of Hamburg. The church is located in the city centre, just N of the Wasserturm, W of the Ilmenau
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptismal chapel
Date: 1540
Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful tp Julen Bengoetxea for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: present church built 1300-1370; re-built 1765;
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of bronze made by Sievert Barchmann in 1540, and said to be originally from the demolished Sankt Lambertirche in Lüneburg; it consists of a bucket-shaped basin raised on four human figures [the four Evangelists?], and a round lower base; the basin is decorated with several gilded bands; some of these are rope or braid motifs but one, near the top, has cherub heads and rosettes in it, and the one right below that has foliage motifs; around the middle is a band of inscription with some motifs in it as separators; near the bottom is another band of foliage morifs; all these bands are gilded; the basin is supported on the backs of the heads of four standing figures set at 90-degree angles and looking outwards; the are individually rendered, each holding a scroll with an inscription on it; the lower base, also of metal, has graded moulding, two of the mouldings are ropes, another has a pattern on it; on the very top of this section is an inscription identifying the make and date of the font. The presnt cover, raised via a pulley above the font is an ornate low-dome with a child-and-lamb finial; it is gilded and painted and appears modern perhaps 19th-century. The font must have had a different cover originally; one of the sides of the basin is fitted with an old, but not original, lock for a cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.247778, 10.412778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 52″ N, 10° 24′ 46″ E
UTM: 32U 594266 5900766
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German and Latin
Inscription Location: 1.- around the midle section of the basin
2.- on the lower base rim
3.- on the scrolls held by the base figures
Inscription Text: 1.- "[...] DVSSE DOPE HEBBEN DE - SVLFMESTER [...]"
2.- "[...] BARCHMANN - ANNO DOMINI [...]"
3.- "[...] VOLCKER - MATTI - [...]"
Inscription Source: ImagesArea
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood?
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: round low-dome with child-and-lamb finial; gilded and painted; Baroque? / Modern?