Minden No. 3
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2013 by Aeggy [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Marienkirche_(Minden)#mediaviewer/Datei:Minden_Marienkirche_Turm.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2014]
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: ca. 1893
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Illustration in Album von Minden und der Porta Westphalika. Minden [ca. 1893]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19306MIN
Church/Chapel: Marienkirche / Pfarrkirche St. Marien
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Germany
Location: Detmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located in Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, 60 km W of Hanover, 60 km E of Osnabrück
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Paderborn [originally Hochstift Minden]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1598
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: the font at Loccum, though not painted
Church Notes: original church here 10thC; expanded 1022; consecrated between 1036 and 1056; tower added in mid-13thC; heavily damaged in 1945;
Noted and illustrated in Speitel (1983) as a Renaissance baptismal font of 1598 probably by the sculptor Kleffemeier of Obernkirchen and the painter Mattemann of Minden, like the similar font at Klosterkirche Loccum. The font consists of an octagonal basin with deeply carved and heavily decorated and painted sides; among the decorations are a set of arches containing effigies of saints identified by inscription in the arch-heads; there is another inscription in larger characters just below the uppr rim; balusters with figures at every other side; the lower basin side and underbowl heavily decorated with fruit and foliage motifs; on a round pedestal decorated with human figures, animals, etc. No cover apparent but uses a baptismal dish, as is comon practice in these areas. Damaged, with some parts broken off. [font illustrated in www.flickr.com/photos/81092401@N04/8630969211/in/photostream/ [accessed 28 June 2014]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.29102,
8.915083
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 17′ 27.67″ N,
8° 54′ 54.3″ E
UTM: 32U 494208 5793410
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: one running inscription below the upper rim; individual inscriptions on the arch-heads around the basin
Inscription Text: [names of saints]
REFERENCES
Speitel, Georg, "Die Taufsteine in der Klosterkirche Loccum und in St. Marien zu Minden", Jahrgang 55 (1983), Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsvereins, 1983, pp. p. 103-110; r["References"]
