Ueffeln / Bramsche-Ueffeln / Ueffeln bei Bramsche / Uffeln

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the Bentheimer font in what must be the parochial garden, therefore befre 1921, the year when it was re-installed inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1921] B&W photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Marienkirche in Ueffeln im Norden des Landkreises Osnabrück in Niedersachsen; Blick von SW"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derbrauni, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 March 2014 by Derbrauni [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marienkirche_Ueffeln_05.JPG] [accessed 11 June 2024]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Marienkirche in Ueffeln im Norden des Landkreises Osnabrück in Niedersachsen; Blick von SO"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derbrauni, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 March 2014 by Derbrauni [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marienkirche_Ueffeln_10.JPG] [accessed 11 June 2024]
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein in der St. Marienkirche Ueffeln 2021"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Schrader, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Uwe Schrader in Ev.-Luth. Marienkirchegemeinde Ueffeln [https://stmarien.wir-e.de/aktuelles?page=10] [accessed 11 June 2024]
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design element - motifs - rope - braided - double - diagonal - 3

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Schrader, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Uwe Schrader in Ev.-Luth. Marienkirchegemeinde Ueffeln [https://stmarien.wir-e.de/aktuelles?page=10] [accessed 11 June 2024]
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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche, Blick zur Orgel," -- showing the Bentheimer font in the bottom-right corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ernst Witt, 1961
Image Source: digital image of a 1961 B&W photograph by Ernst Witt [https://kirchengemeindelexikon.de/einzelgemeinde/ueffeln/] [accessed 11 June 2024]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Schrader, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Uwe Schrader in Ev.-Luth. Marienkirchegemeinde Ueffeln [https://stmarien.wir-e.de/aktuelles?page=10] [accessed 11 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20191UEF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Group A2 [Drake]
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Marienkirche Ueffeln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church 1292
Church Address: Dorfstraße 44, 49565 Bramsche-Ueffeln, Germany
Site Location: Detmold, Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road B218, in the municipality and about 10 km NW of Bramsche, 25-30 km NNW of Osnabrück
Additional Comments: disused font (in the parish garden until 1921) / restored font (inside the church in 1921)
Font Notes:
The entry for this church in the Kirchegemiendelexikon 1800 Geschichten [https://kirchengemeindelexikon.de/einzelgemeinde/ueffeln/] [accessed 11 June 2024] mentions a bapyismal font of the 13th-century Bentheimer type that was relegated to the parish garden but was restored to the church in 1921 ["Taufstein, Bentheimer Typ, (13. Jh.), zeitweise im Pfarrgarten, seit 1921 wieder in der Kirche"]. The entry for this church in the Evangelish-lutherische Landesnirche Hannovers [https://stmarien.wir-e.de/kirche] [accessed 11 June 2024] reports a 12th-13th century Bentheimer-type baptismal font on the north side of the chancel; it further remarks that these fonts were made in the Bentheim and Gildehauser mines between around 1170 and 1300; this sandstone is a pure and even-grained quartz sandstone with high strength, weather resistance and hardness, which is still easy to work with ["Der Taufstein ("Bentheimer Typ", 12. - 13. Jahrhundert) steht linksseitig im Altarraum. Der Fuß ist durch einen Rundwulst unterteilt. Die Taufsteine dieser Fertigung wurden in der Zeit von ca. 1170 bis 1300 in den Bentheimer und Gildehauser Gruben hergestellt. Dieser Sandstein ist ein reiner und gleichkörniger Quarzsandstein von hoher Festigkeit, Witterungsbeständigkeit und Härte, der sich dennoch gut bearbeiten lässt."]



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. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Marien_(Ueffeln)] [accessed 11 June 2024] notes a late Romanesque baptismal font made of Bentheimer sandstone in the 13th century ["Ältestes Stück in der Kirche ist der spätromanische Taufstein aus Bentheimer Sandstein (Bentheimer Typ) aus dem 13. Jahrhundert"].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 423563 5811520
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.448514, 7.875278
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 54.65″ N, 7° 52′ 31″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, with orb-and-cross finial; modern

REFERENCES

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