Mollensen No. 2 / Molem / Molinhus / Möllensen / Sibbesse-Möllensen
Results: 4 records
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19265MOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1603
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early)
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Lucia-Kirche
Font Location in Church: Inside, in the centre aisle, E end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lucy [aka Lucia?
Church Notes: original church medieval; present church dates mostly from 1744
Church Address: 31079 Sibbesse, Germany
Site Location: Hildesheim, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L482, 2-3 km NW of Sibbesse, 12-13 km SSW of Hildesheim
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Hildesheim
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in Schulin (2021) under the category "Übrige Kelch-Sonderformen". The font consists of an octagonal basin with a pronounced flat moulding at the upper rim below which is an inscription in Gothic lettering [text not available]; a large human head on each panel of the basin have further inscriptions below them; the pedstal base has [four?] cherubs on them and the lower base is decorated with a rope moulding. The wooden cover is of medium dome shape, with openwork and a folral finial; painted. The font and its cover are illustrated in a digital photograph taken 3 July 2025 by Torbenbrinker in Wikimedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Möllensen9.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2025].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 561009 5768703
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: on the basin sides, below the upper rim and below some of the heads on the basin
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal medium dome; floral finial; painted
REFERENCES
- Schulin, Bertram, Taufbecken in Deutschland: Form und Ikonographie, 2021, s. 160, 566, 569, Abb.222