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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: broad but shallow

Image Source: digital photograph by Verena Bloch in KulturAtlas [https://www.kulturium.de/Kulturatlas/index.php?La=1&object=tx,2364.3898.1&kat=&kuo=2&sub=0] [accessed 26 September 2023]

design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: matching those on the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Verena Bloch in KulturAtlas [https://www.kulturium.de/Kulturatlas/index.php?La=1&object=tx,2364.3898.1&kat=&kuo=2&sub=0] [accessed 26 September 2023]

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph by Verena Bloch in KulturAtlas [https://www.kulturium.de/Kulturatlas/index.php?La=1&object=tx,2364.3898.1&kat=&kuo=2&sub=0] [accessed 26 September 2023]

inscription - partial

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

Image Source: digital photograph by Verena Bloch in KulturAtlas [https://www.kulturium.de/Kulturatlas/index.php?La=1&object=tx,2364.3898.1&kat=&kuo=2&sub=0] [accessed 26 September 2023]

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph in Eime Online [www.eime-online.de/images/kirche/jakobi_eime.jpg] [accessed 4 June 2014]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph in Eime Online [www.eime-online.de/images/kirche/jakobi_eime.jpg] [accessed 4 June 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Verena Bloch in KulturAtlas [https://www.kulturium.de/Kulturatlas/index.php?La=1&object=tx,2364.3898.1&kat=&kuo=2&sub=0] [accessed 26 September 2023]

INFORMATION

FontID: 19267EIM

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherischee Kirche St. Jakobus

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Hauptstraße 13, 31036 Eime, Hildesheim, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Hildesheim, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off the Bd240 [aka Hauptstraße], 4-5 km W of Gronau, 18-19 km WSW of Hildesheim

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Hildesheim

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1605

Century and Period: 17th century(early),

Church Notes: church here first documented in 1209

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Octagonal font made of sandstone in 1605 noted in Ulrike Matthies' Die protestantischen Taufbecken Niedersachsens von der Reformation bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts (Regensburg 1998). Noted and partially illustrated in Wulf (2014): baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base. There are inscriptions on four of its sides, names that may identify the donors of the font, blind rectangular panels, cherubs in shallow arches, and a wide but shallow buttress on every side; graded pattern on the underbowl sides; the shaft may have been reversed. Parts of the font and base are painted. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.077041, 9.72472

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 37.35″ N, 9° 43′ 28.99″ E

UTM: 32U 549667 5769855

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 79 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 90.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Wulf (2014: 263)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German

Inscription Text: 1. "A[nn]O - 1605 - ER : DANIEL / LVDEWICI - P[astor] / CLAGES - WI/TTEMIER - 12 / FLO[renos] - D[ono] D[edit]" 2. "CHRISTOPHER / PFVNTH / FLO[renos] D[ono] D[edit] / CORDT BARC/HMAN 6 FLO[renos] 3. "B HINRICK / BODEN 10 FLO[renos] / HANS - SMETH / HANS - FROBOSEN" 4. "LORENS / KNVST"

Inscription Source: Wulf (2014: 263-264)

REFERENCES

Die Inschriften des Landkreises Hildesheim, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2014