Wiarden

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - Longinus? - Stephaton?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - Longinus? - Stephaton? - detail

Scene Description: John, on the right, holding a book?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - Longinus? - Stephaton? - detail

Scene Description: Mary?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - enthroned figure of Virgin Mary with Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes

Scene Description: Christ has his hands together in prayer

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - inhabited - animals, foliage, etc.

Scene Description: two quadrupeds in smoe of the ringlets -- this side shows the damage from a metal staple in the rim; the staple at the opposite end remains

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the lack of a a drain hole, the remaining metal staple and the damage to the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of building exterior

Scene Description: Oldenburg Schloss, present home of the original baptismal font from Wiarden

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of building exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of building exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of building exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Jungkind [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiarden_church_2.JPG] [accessed 1 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the church where the font originates

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Jungkind [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiarden_church.JPG] [accessed 1 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0

view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Jungkind [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiarden_church_altar.JPG] [accessed 1 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: Crucifixion (left) and Harrowing of Hell (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: Harrowing of Hell (left) and Adoration of the Magi (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi (left) and the angel holding garments from the Baptism of Christ scene (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in permanent display at the Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg Schloss location

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 19402WIA

Museum and Inventory Number: Oldenburg Schloss [Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte]], Schlossplatz 1 26122 Oldenburg, Germany

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Cosmas- und Damian-Kirche in Wiarden im Wangerland [now in a museum]

Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian

Country Name: Germany

Location: Friesland, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located 14 km N of Wilhelmshaven

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Bremen

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1260-1280?

Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Gothic

Church Notes: original church here from ca. 1164

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in the museum's web site [http://cms2.niedersachsen.de/portal/live.php?navigation_id=24431&article_id=85025&_psmand=184] [accessed 1 September 2014]: "Ein solcher motivreicher Taufstein befindet sich auch in der Dauerausstellung im Schloss. Das spätromanische Becken wurde aus westfälischem Sandstein um ca. 1260-1280 erstellt und stammt aus der Kirche St. Cosmas und Damian in Wiarden. Der Taufstein besteht aus einem runden Körper, der sich zum Boden hin verjüngt und von einem Sockel getragen wird. Unter dem Beckenrand verläuft ein breites Reliefband aus Ranken, deren eingerollte Triebe Tiere und Fratzen umrahmen. Während die Sockelzone unverziert geblieben ist, trägt die Hauptwandung figürlichen Schmuck. Den Hintergrund dieser Zone bildet ein Rautenmuster mit lanzettförmigen Blütenblättern. Dargestellt sind die Anbetung der Könige, die Taufe Christi, die Kreuzigung und Christus in der Vorhölle, wobei einige der Figuren jedoch stark bestoßen sind. Die Mulde im Stein diente dem Einlassen eines Metallbeckens – dem eigentlichen Taufbecken. Auf dem Rand des Beckens sind noch die Einlassspuren für einen heute fehlenden Deckel zu erkennen. Rudimentäre Spuren einer Fassung sind ebenfalls auszumachen." On-site notes: baptismal font made of Bamberg sandstone, originally from the parish church of St. Cosmas and St. Damian at Wiarden, near Wilhelmshaven. It is now in the permanent collections of the Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte at its Oldenburg Schloss location, where it is dated to between 1260 and 1280; cylindrical basin without a base; nelow the upper rim is a a vine populated with heads, animals and foliated motifs; the body of the basin has a background of lanceolate leaf pattern; around the basin sides are four scenes [L->R]: 1)Crucifixion, with Mary and John at the extreme ends, John holding a book; closer to the cross two smaller figures, the one on the right wearing a Jew hat; are they Stephaton and Longinus?; 2)Harrowing of Hell; 3)Adoration of the Magi before and enthroned Madonna and Child; 4)Baptism of Christ in the Jordan; the Baptist is on the right, his right hand on Christ's head; to the left is the attending angel holding garments. There is no drain hole in the inner well. Considerable damage on the font; big chunk missing at the upper rim where an old metal staple was; its companion is still in place at the opposite end. No cover present.

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 430792 5947069

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Baumberg)

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 14-15 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 89-90 cm

Basin Depth: 36-37 cm

Basin Total Height: 94 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]