Sudkirchen / Südkirchen / Süüdkiärken

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nordkirchen Baudenkmal 25 St. Pankratius Suedkirchen - innen" -- showing the medieval font in the new church
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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in A. Ludorff (1893: 98)
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2

Scene Description: with a vine between them
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograp 15 April 2020 by Dr. W. Strickling [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordkirchen_Baudenkmal_25_St._Pankratius_Suedkirchen_-_innen_5227.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2023]
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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: includes palmettes and other motifs
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human figure - head - wearing headdress

Scene Description: several of them, together with rosettes and other motifs
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: together with human heads and other motifs
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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nordkirchen Baudenkmal 25 St. Pankratius Suedkirchen" -- the old St. Pankratius church; the base of the tower is 12thC [NB: the font is no longer in this building; it has been moved to the mid-201thC Neue Pfarrkirche Südkirchen]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 20179SUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge b. Type II [Drake]
Church / Chapel Name: Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius
Font Location in Church: Inside the Neue Pfarrkirche Südkirchen of the mid-20thC
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]
Previous Font Location(s): originally from Alt St. Pankratius
Church Notes: parish founded 1022-1023; Romanesque tower base ca.1100; church extended 1690s consecrated 1701; renovated 1960s
Church Address: Oberstraße 3, 59394 Südkirchen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2596 / 972918 – 200
Site Location: Coesfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L810-K6 crossroads, in the municipality of Nordkirchen, SSW of Münster
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Additional Comments: re-used font (originally from the earlier church)
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Ludorf (1873 and 1914). In Ligtenberg (1915). Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the "Bentheim School, Berge b. Type II", a group of fonts that includes those at Alfhausen, Badbergen, Bippen, Borken, Heek, Lathen, Nordherringen, Salzbergen, Schapen, Schepsdorf, Südkirchen, Utrecht (Katharinenkonvent), Weerselo, Wettringen and Wissel. The site Im Ortsteil Südkirchen mit Übersichtsplan - Heimatverein... [www.heimatverein-gemeinde-nordkirchen.de/Dorffuehrer/Dorffuehrer 4 Suedkirchen.htm [accessed 13 February 2016] conforms that the old Bentheim font, originally from the Alte Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius, is now located inside the Neue Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius, a building of the mid-20th century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 399607 5729851
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.710601, 7.546936
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 42′ 38.17″ N, 7° 32′ 48.97″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ludorff (1893: 98)

REFERENCES

  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 72, 74, 177
  • Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; p. 173
  • Ludorf, L., Die Bau- und Kunftdenkmäler von Westfalen, Paderborn: Komissions Verlag Von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1914, Kreis Lüdinghausen, p. 98