Greetsiel

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view of church exterior

distorted panoramic allows the inclusion of the church and the detached tower [source note: "This image is a panorama consisting of 2 frames that were merged or stitched in Hugin. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation. These manipulations may include blending, blurring, cloning, and color and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different than reality at the points where multiple images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions."]

Scene Description: distorted panoramic allows the inclusion of the church and the detached tower [source note: "This image is a panorama consisting of 2 frames that were merged or stitched in Hugin. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation. These manipulations may include blending, blurring, cloning, and color and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different than reality at the points where multiple images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions."]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2010 by kaʁstn [Carschten] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greetsieler_Kirche_2010.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE

view of church exterior

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 May 2012 by Anaconda74 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greetsiel_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2018]

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view of church exterior - bell tower

Scene Description: Source caption: "Greetsiel in Ostfriesland [...] freistehender Glockenturm."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 May 2012 by Anaconda74 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greetsiel_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font stands near the pulpit, the focus of the Reformed church distribution

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2012 by Dickelbers [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greetsiel_(Ostfriesland)_-_Germany_41.JPG] [accessed 18 November 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20167GRE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-reformierte Greetsieler Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Hohe Str. 2, 26736 Krummhörn, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4921 22731

Country Name: Germany

Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off (SW) Greetsieler Strasse, 8 km N of Krummhörn, 15-20 km NNW of Emden

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster

Historical Region: Krummhörn, Ostfriesland

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Type Sögel I, Sögel [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: present church built 1380-1410; modified late-17thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font of Benthein sandstone consisting of a slightly tapering round basin made of Bentheim sandstone; its design matches the classification assigned in Drake (2002) as "Bentheim School; Type Sögel I, Sögel", which includes fonts at Damme, Greetsiel, Grimersum, Kantens, Rijsen, Sleen, Sögel, Thuine and Uphusen. The decoration of these fonts may have, from top down, a braid, a vine, a second braid, and a second vine. [NB: we are unable to confirm the Bentheim font of this church at this time [November 2018]; the present font is modern].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.500556, 7.093639

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 30′ 2″ N, 7° 5′ 37.1″ E

UTM: 32U 373555 5929647

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002