Langenhagen
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4
Scene Description: on four of the panels on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Langenhagen bewegt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Langenhagen bewegt [www.langenhagen.de/index.phtml?mNavID=1620.464&sNavID=1620.584] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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angel - cherub - 3 - support the bowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Langenhagen bewegt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Langenhagen bewegt [www.langenhagen.de/index.phtml?mNavID=1620.464&sNavID=1620.584] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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coat of arms - Heinrich Julius Schrader?
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Langenhagen bewegt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Langenhagen bewegt [www.langenhagen.de/index.phtml?mNavID=1620.464&sNavID=1620.584] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Langenhagen bewegt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Langenhagen bewegt [www.langenhagen.de/index.phtml?mNavID=1620.464&sNavID=1620.584] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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design element - motifs - vase
Scene Description: at the corners; with floral and fruit motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Langenhagen bewegt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Langenhagen bewegt [www.langenhagen.de/index.phtml?mNavID=1620.464&sNavID=1620.584] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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inscription
![[cf. Inscription area and FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140629003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area and FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernd Schwabe in Hannover, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2013 by Bernd Schwabe in Hannover [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1630_Taufstein_Jeremias_Sutel_für_Heinrich_Julius_Schrader_%2B_Elisabeth_Klaven,_Fuß_einer_Putte,_Meisterzeichen,_SO(LI)_DE(O)_GL(ORIA),_Gott_allein_die_Ehre,_Sockelplatte_Inschrift_Jeremi_Sutel_fec(it),_Elisabethkirche_Langenhagen.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Losch, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2009 by Losch [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Elisabethkirche_Langenhagen_IMG_1275.JPG] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the medieval tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Losch, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2011 by Losch [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elisabethkirche_von_1867_in_Langenhagen_IMG_6765.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: with Renate Tackmann (Stadtführerin) standing next to the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © herzogin-elisabeth.de, 2009
Image Source: in Herzogin Elisabeth zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg http://herzogin-elisabeth.de/cgi-bin/hearcha.cgi [accessed 29 June 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19308LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Elisabethkirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Elizabeth
Church Location: Kirchplatz 5-7, 30853 Langenhagen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 511 733161
Country Name: Germany
Location: Hannover, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the confluence of county roads 2 and 352 with local road 522, in the northern banlieu of Hannover, about 7 km from the city centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the chancel
Date: 1630
Century and Period: 17th century(early), Late Renaissance? / Baroque?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Jeremias Sutel / heraldic font
Church Notes: church looted and burned ca. 1629, Thirty Years' War; badly damaged in WWII bombings; re-built
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a hexagonal basin, the panels decorated with figures identified as the four Evangelists, and two emblems of the donor at opposite ends, the inscription "HIS" [cf. infra] painted on the background; the angles with tall thin vases with floral motifs in them, fruit underneath; gilded scrolls on the underbowl; commissioned by Heinrich Julius Schrader, who appears portrayed with his wife, their names recorded with the date of the font in the inscription that runs along the top of the pedestal of the base; around the pedestal are three putti-like angels holding up the basin, one of them holding down a book; at the foot of one of the angels is another inscription; the top part is an abbreviation of "Soli Deo Gloria", while the lower part has the name of the master who made the font, Jeremias Sutler, born in Northeim in 1587 [source: image and text in Langenhagen bewegt [www.langenhagen.de/index.phtml?mNavID=1620.464&sNavID=1620.584] [accessed 29 June 2014]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.447362, 9.740651
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 50.5″ N, 9° 44′ 26.35″ E
UTM: 32U 550337 5811055
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: 1) "HIS"
2) "HENRIC: IVLIVS. SCHRADER. ELISABETH KLAVEN. DED: A[n]o 1630"
3) "SO[li] DE[o] GL[oria]"
4) "IEREMI: SVTEL fec[it]"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes and images]