Buttel / Büttel

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20186BUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Group A2 [Drake]
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutheriche Marienkirche Büttel
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: present church of 1506 with later modifications
Church Address: Hake-Betcken-Straße 1C, Loxstedt, Germany
Site Location: Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road K54 [aka WeserStrasse], S of Hwy. 437, in the municipality of Loxstedt, about 12 km SSW of Bremerhaven
Font Notes:
Noted in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the "Bentheim School, Group A2, modified cylinder", a group in which this author includes the fonts at Bersenbrück, Büttel, Emsbüren, Enschede, Epe, Ermelo, Gimpte, Herzlake, Holtland, Ochtrup, Ostönnen, Otterloo, Ueffeln. A medieval font in this village is reported in StadtM [https://stadtm.de/Loxstedt/listing/buettel-2/] [accessed 3 October 2025] : "Der Taufstein ist auf das Mittelalter zurückzuführen". [NB: the baptismal font which is partially visible to the left of the altar in a 23 April 2022 digital photograph by ClausNe in Wikimedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Büttel_01.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2025] does not appear to be a Bentheim font -- is it a later font?]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 469637 5919908
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.42734, 8.54304
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 25′ 38.42″ N, 8° 32′ 34.94″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

REFERENCES

  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 177