Neuenkirchen in Land Hadeln / Neenkarken / Niederelbe

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Christ - Christ in Majesty?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

Christ - Christ in Majesty?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary? - John the Evangelist?

Scene Description: Inscription on cross reads IESVS, not INRI; two other persons in the scene could be Mary (left) and John with book (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

New Testament - Passion of Christ - Deposition?

Scene Description: or Ecce Homo?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

New Testament - Passion of Christ - Via Crucis - Simon of Cyrene?

Scene Description: the figure to the right has a hand on the cross

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - handle - 2

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: two sets [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

human figure - male - standing - hands together at front

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human figure - male - standing - hands together at front

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human figure - male - standing - hands together at front

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

human figure - male - standing - hands together at front - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - south side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: north side of the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the cover, the baptismal dish and the insert to support the dish [the latter upsidedown]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 19422NEU

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Marien

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Tel.: 04751/978 1844

Country Name: Germany

Location: Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located near Otterndorf, 20 km E of Cuxhaven, NW of Hamburg

Historical Region: Land Hadeln

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N side of the chancel

Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic

Cognate Fonts: Otterndorf

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the anonymous persistent Neuenkirchener [he appears on a fonting photograph] who went through lengthy and meandering undertakings to make possible our access to this church and font. Vielen Dank!

Church Notes: original church 14thC; tower restored 1990s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font made of bronze; the basin is bell-shaped with two handles at opposite end of the upper rim; rests on three cast standing figures; the sides of the basin are decorated with a total of eighteen reliefs: a Crucifixion scene and smaller medallions with small scenes repeated around it: Crucifixion scene: inscription on cross reads IESVS, not INRI; two other persons in the scene could be Mary (left) and John with book (right); Harrowing of Hell?: Christ gathers the souls out of Hell; framed in a cricle and and inner hexafoil shape; two other scenes are similar, both showing a haloed figure seated, holding a book in the right hand, the left hand raised; one is framed in a Gothic arch; another scene framed in a circle appears to be the Deposition or the Ecce Homo; another scene framed in a circle shows Christ carrying the cross helped by Simon of Cyrene. There are two sets of very thin mouldings: the upper one has three mouldings; the lower one has five. The three figures on which the basin is supported are young men, perhaps clerics, their hands held together in front. The flat round cover has a cross finial/handle; the upper surface of the cover is decorated with symbols and motifs. The font is used now with a modern baptismal dish insert made of metal; it rests on a round support with three legs.

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 492997 5958766

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 2.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm

Basin Depth: 44 cm

Basin Total Height: 45 cm

Height of Base: 39-46 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the upper part of the cross, in the Crucifixion scene

Inscription Text: "IESVS"

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal, bronze?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]