Merzen
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Merzen, die Sankt Lambertus Kirche"
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 August 2020 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merzen,_die_Sankt_Lambertus_Kirche_IMG_7319_2020-08-09_14.19.jpg] [accessed 25 August 2021]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Orgel von St. Lambertus (Merzen)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ramsch, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2020 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Lambertus_Orgel.jpg] [accessed 25 August 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19914MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche Sankt Lambertus
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Westerholter Str. 1, 49586 Merzen, Germany -- Tel.: 05466 932080
Country Name: Germany
Location: Osnabrück, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off road 218, 7-8 km SSW of Ankum, 25-30 km NNW of Osnabrück
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Osnabrück
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Sögel Type II [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: Emmen and Westerbork
Church Notes: Romanesque church demolished 1874; new church completed 1876; tower added 1894; new church renovated 2008
Font Notes:
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Listed in Drake (2002) as a Sögel Type II, Bentheim baptismal font.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4765, 7.830556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 28′ 35.4″ N, 7° 49′ 50″ E
UTM: 32U 420574 5814681
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002