Marienwehr No. 1

Results: 14 records

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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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - detail

Scene Description: the head of the lion on this side is damaged and has been repaired

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - detail

Scene Description: details of the couchant-regardant lions can be discerned here: the tail wrapping around its back

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - chevron

Scene Description: a pattern of chevrons and demi-loops around the bottom of the side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: stylised, with geometric elements

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - piping or ribbed - 4

Scene Description: vertical and rounded, between the lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: museum label

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: shows the carving pattern inside the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: shows details of damage and traces of paint

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Wallfahrtskirche Marienweiher

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]

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Wallfahrtskirche Marienweiher

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]

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of font in context

Scene Description: two of the fonts at the Emden museum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 19420MAR

Museum and Inventory Number: Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden, Brückstraße 1 | 26725 Emden, Germany

Church/Chapel: Wallfahrtskirche Marienweiher [now in a museum]

Church Location: 26725 Marienwehr, Niedersachsen, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen

Font Location in Church: now in a museum

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Sögel. d. Type IV [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: Arle, Hage, Hatzum, Marienhafe, Riepe

Church Notes: medieval church here demolished in late-19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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 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