Marienwehr No. 1
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view of font in context
Scene Description: two of the fonts at the Emden museum
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: shows details of damage and traces of paint
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: shows the carving pattern inside the basin
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design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: stylised, with geometric elements
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design element - motifs - vine
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design element - motifs - chevron
Scene Description: a pattern of chevrons and demi-loops around the bottom of the side
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Wallfahrtskirche Marienweiher
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital reproduction of a 1954 (?) B&W postcard or photograph [www.heimatsammlung.de/topo_unter/95/95_unter_02.htm] [accessed 11 September 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Wallfahrtskirche Marienweiher
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Image Source: digital reproduction of an old B&W postcard or photograph [www.heimatsammlung.de/topo_unter/95/95_unter_02.htm] [accessed 11 September 2014]
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - detail
Scene Description: details of the couchant-regardant lions can be discerned here: the tail wrapping around its back
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - detail
Scene Description: the head of the lion on this side is damaged and has been repaired
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: the highly stylised lions of the upper base, set at 90-degree angles of the central shaft
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design element - motifs - piping or ribbed - 4
Scene Description: vertical and rounded, between the lions
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information
Scene Description: museum label
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information
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19420MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2014-08-05
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Sögel. d. Type IV [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: Arle, Hage, Hatzum, Marienhafe, Riepe
Museum: Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden, Brückstraße 1 | 26725 Emden, Germany, PL 1-0
Church / Chapel Name: Marienweiher Kirche
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]
Church Notes: medieval church here demolished in late-19thC
Church Address: 26725 Marienwehr, Emden, Germany
Site Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: The hamlet of Marienwehr is located NE of Hwy. 31, 5 km NE of Emden; it is now a borough [Stadtteil] of it
Additional Comments: disused font (now in a museum) / painted font (traces of reddish paint)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of sandstone; it consists of a tub or bucket-shaped basin decorated with three bands all around the upper band is a stylised geometric interlace, the middle band is a vine, and the lower band is a combination of chevron an demi-loops; raised on a base formed by a central shaft with vertical piping, and four stylised couchant lions at 90-degree angles; the lower base is plain and square. There is some minor damage on the upper rim. There are traces of reddish paint on the font. The font is one of three on permanent display at the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden, two of which are labeled as being from Marienwher [cf. Index entry for Marienwehr No. 2 for the other font]. The museum label describes the font as being of the Bentheim type, and relates it to those at Arle, Hage, Hatzum, Marienhafe and Riepe. This is probably the font Drake (2002) classes as "Bentheim School, Sögel. d. Type IV", with cognate fonts at Mitlingsmark and Wolzeten. Described and illustrated by Andreas Kessens in the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden site [www.landesmuseum-emden.de/306-0-68] [accessed 15 February 2016] as being made of "Betheimer Sanstein" ca. 1250. Kessens (ibid.) further notes that in 1877 the parishes of Marienwehr and Suurhusen were combined and the font from the former was donated to the Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst und vaterländische Altertümer; additionally, Kessens notes that the indentation or groove at the upper rim sugests the use of a water-holding insert made of lead or copper would have been used, especially, he remarks, as the font had no drainage [="keinen Abfluss"].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm*
Basin Depth: 34 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Andreas Kessens, Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden [NB: font encased in the museum display; BSI unable to get own measurements]
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 178