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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: all around, with a trefoil insert in each arch-head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2008 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaaskerk_Onstwedde_doopvont.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2008 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaaskerk_Onstwedde_doopvont.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: a band of compound trefoiled motifs inside pointed scrolls

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2008 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaaskerk_Onstwedde_doopvont.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: trefoil with a floral (?) lower end inside each arch-head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2008 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaaskerk_Onstwedde_doopvont.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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information

Image Source: digital image [NL-GnGRA_1173_110_51] of a 17 December 1974 article in the Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, in the Groninger Archieven [https://www.beeldbankgroningen.nl/beelden/detail/a0857616-1188-3416-2bbc-259cf73f760e] [accessed 4 October 2023]

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inscription

Scene Description: the inscription may be a later [16thC?] addition [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2008 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaaskerk_Onstwedde_doopvont.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of basin

Scene Description: probably ca.1936, as displayed in a Veenhuizen field (?) -- the font, which had been offered to the church in Onstwedde in 1950, would eventually be accepted back in Onstwedde and restored to Sint-Nicolaaskerk in 1989

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: in 1936, as displayed in a Veenhuizen field (?) -- the font, which had been offered to the church in Onstwedde in 1950, would eventually be accepted back in Onstwedde and restored to Sint-Nicolaaskerk in 1989

Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1936, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_te_Veenhuizen_-_Onstwedde_-_20173572_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: The Romanesque-style tower is 14thC, the nave 15thC; the tower may have been originally detached from the earlier nave; the window openings on the north side were made in 1928-1930 [cf. www.archimon.nl/groningen/onstweddeherv.html [accessed 27 November 2015]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2008 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaaskerk_Onstwedde.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2014 by MichielverbeekNL [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onstwedde,_de_Nicolaaskerk_RM34169_foto5_2014-07-12_15.32.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: in 2008 -- the old baptismal font is located at the east end, to the left [north] of the pulpit; only the top rim is visible, the rest hidden dehing the pews

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2008 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaaskerk_Onstwedde_interieur.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: in October 1984 -- the font located at the east end, to the left of the altar, is not the old one; the old font was not returned to the church until 1989 [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken October 1984 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Onstwedde_-_20173525_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: in October 1984

Image Source: digital photograph taken October 1984 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Onstwedde_-_20173524_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: after its restoration in the church

Image Source: digital photograph in Beeld & Tekst Hervormde Gemeente Onstwedde [https://hervormdonstwedde.nl/footer-menu/gebouwen/kerk-en-toren] [accessed 4 October 2023]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the old font in the context of the east end of the church in 2008; it had been restored to the church in1989; the stem and lower base are modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2008 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaaskerk_Onstwedde_doopvont2.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in 1967, as displayed in Veenhuizen, outside its owners house -- the font, which had been offered to the church in Onstwedde in 1950, would eventually be accepted back in Onstwedde and restored to Sint-Nicolaaskerk in 1989

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1967 by H.M. van der Berg, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Onstwedde_-_20173573_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: after its restoration in the church

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2012 [https://aaltjesstee.nl/gedichten/] [accessed 4 October 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20159ONS

Church/Chapel: Sint-Nicolaaskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Kerklaan 9, 9591 AH Onstwedde, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Groningen

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N365 [aka Kampweg], in the municipality and 9-10 km SW of Stadskanaal, about 45-50 km SE of Groningen

Ecclesiastic Region: [originally in the German diocese of Osnabrück]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, to the N of the pulpit

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his additional help in documenting this font

Church Notes: wooden church here ca. 875; present church 14th-15thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A Wikipedia article [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaaskerk_(Onstwedde)] [accessed 27 November 2015] states: "In de kerk staat een gotisch doopvont van Bentheimer zandsteen, vermoedelijk uit 1524. De datering is omstreden; in de plaatselijke geschiedschrijving worden de jaartallen 1124 en 1324 genoemd.[8] De gotische stijl en het gebruik van de volkstaal zijn daarmee echter in tegenspraak. Dit doopvont werd, nadat Onstwedde zich aansloot bij de Reformatie, uit de kerk verwijderd. Het kwam terecht in de buurtschap Veenhuizen, even ten zuidwesten van Onstwedde. Daar heeft het eeuwenlang dienst gedaan als drinkbak voor vee en waarschijnlijk ook als slijpsteen voor messen. In 1950 bood de toenmalige eigenaar het doopvont aan de kerk aan. Omdat het kerkbestuur het doopvont 'slechts' in de toren wilde plaatsen trok de eigenaar zijn aanbod in. In 1989 werd alsnog een afspraak gemaakt voor terugplaatsing in de kerk en in 1991 werden de eerste drie kinderen uit het oude doopvont gedoopt" [NB: the reference given is incomplete: "Volgens C.J. en R.M.A. Wegman (in: Westerwolders en hun woningbezit) staat er op het doopvont dit vat heft geve ... int jaar MC en[de] XXIIII. Anderen hebben het jaartal gelezen als MCCCXXIIII"]. The above article refers to a discrepancy in dating this fragment of a Bentheimer sandstone font, as some read 1123 and others 1323, the dating of the inscription itself being questioned, as it appears to have been carved in the 16th century]. Further, the article indicates that the font was withdrawn from the church at the time of the Reformation, and taken to Veenhuizen, a town just southwest of Onstwedde, where it was used a a water trough for horses, and its upper rim for sharpening metal tools; the owner of the font offered to return it to the church at Onstwedde in 1950, but retracted his offer when the church council indicated that it would not be restored to its baptismal function; the font was finally accepted at Sint-Nicolaaskerk under the stated condition in 1989, and it was used to baptise three children ["drie kinderen"] in 1991. Unless the font was totally re-carved, the decoration suggests a 14th-century dating; the inscription may have been added later. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 16 November 2022) informed: "The current Gothic church building of Onstwedde was built around 1500. The tower, which is more than 41 meters high, is at least a century and a half older than the church. Until 1568 Onstwedde belonged ecclesiastically to the diocese of Osnabrück. The secular authority was in the hands of the Prince Bishop of Münster. The parish priest was appointed by the abbot of Corvey Abbey near Höxter. The current church building is believed to have had one or more predecessors, the oldest of which must have dated from the 10th or 11th century. Around 1150 the church of Unsvede is mentioned for the first time. It is unlikely that the church was originally dedicated to Nicholas, as the veneration of Nicholas only emerged in the 12th century, when the church of Onstwedde probably existed longer. According to recent research, the church was originally dedicated to James the Greater. In the church is the basin of a Gothic baptismal font made of Bentheimer sandstone, probably from 1524. The dating is controversial, local historiography also mentions the years 1124 and 1324. However, the Gothic style and the use of a vernacular inscription contradict the older dates. The basin is decorated at the bottom in a tracery pattern in a three-pass motif, a Gothic characteristic. The geometric braiding pattern along the top edge is still reminiscent of the decoration of Romanesque Bentheimer baptismal fonts. A text has been carved into three sides of the basin, which is now heavily weathered. Redmer Alma deciphered it as follows: “this uat heft geue(n) / simen Johan / int iaer M CV en(de) xxiii”, or “this font was given by Simon Johan in the year 1524”. The name Simon Johan and the year are not certain, but they are the most likely reading. The transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in 1594 went fairly smoothly in Onstwedde. However, quite late after Onstwedde had joined the Reformation, the baptismal font was removed from the church. It ended up with the Trenning family in the hamlet of Veenhuizen, just southwest of Onstwedde. There it first stood behind the house of the family farm, where it was used as a drinking trough for the horses. Later it was placed in a meadow as a drinking trough for the cattle, where it stayed for a few centuries, clearly visible from the road. The basin was also used as a sharpening stone for knives, causing the top edge to become worn down. But in the thirties of the last century, the font was brought closer to home, and placed in the front garden of the farm. When he left the farm in 1950, then-owner B. Trenning presented the baptismal font to the church. Because the church council wanted to place the baptismal font 'only' in the tower, he withdrew his offer. After that it served for many years as a flower planter in front of a bank building, of which H. Trenning was director. To protect the historically important object, it was later placed inside, in the entrance hall of the bank. It was filled with perennials. In 1989 an appointment was made to return it to the church and in 1991 the first three children were baptized in the old baptismal font."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.030598, 7.044491

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 1′ 50.15″ N, 7° 2′ 40.17″ E

UTM: 32U 368865 5877463

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Dutch?

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin

Inscription Text: "this uat heft geue(n) / simen Johan / int iaer M CV en(de) xxiii"

Inscription Source: Redmer Alma [cf. FontNotes]