Ochtersum / Westochtersum
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: much damaged and eroded now; the one on the left still shows the hind quarters and the twisting tail but the end of the one on the right has been either damaged or re-carved
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/ochtersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: above and below the vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/ochtersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/ochtersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - patterns - fan palmette
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/ochtersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Kirche Westochtersum mit Glockenturm"
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Image Source: edited detail of a 1 May 2009 digital photograph by Benutzer:GregorHelms [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Westochtersum_mit_Glockenturm.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: " Evangelische Kirche Westochtersum, Kircheninneres, Empore"
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 1 May 2009 by Benutzer:GregorHelms [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kircheninneres_Westochtersum_Empore.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der 1220/40 aus gelbem Sandstein gehauene Taufstein stammt aus den Steinbrüchen bei Bentheim und ist ein schönes Stück romanischer Steinmetzkunst aud dem 13. Jh. Auf einem quadratischen Sockel stehen vier Löwen mit (gegen böse Geister) drohend gefletschtem Gebiß, und tragen ein Rundbecken, das mit Ornamenten aus Weinranken verziert ist" -- notice the damage below the upper rim, likely from a metal font-cver anchoring
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/ochtersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20220WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Materniani-Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Maternus [aka Materianus]
Church Location: Siefke-Kunstreich-Straße 5, 26489 Ochtersum, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4975 234
Country Name: Germany
Location: Wittmund, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off local road L6 [aka Esenser Straße], 8-9 km WSW of Esens, about 20 km N of Aurich -- Westochtersum is one of three districts of Ochtersum (Wittmund), 5 lm NE of Westerholt
Historical Region: Ostfriesland
Date: 1220-1240?
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, group Hage A.a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: original church may have been a wooden building; apse collapsed 1675; church modified 17thC; restored and renovated 1960
Font Notes:
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Drake (2002) lists a font at Roden in group Hage A.a. Type I, of the Bentheim School [listed in this group are the fonts at: Berum (F), Forlitz-Baukirchen, Hage, Kappeln, Keitum, Ohne, Roden, Westochtersum and Wesuwe). Noted and illustrated in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingeerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/ochtersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]: "Der 1220/40 aus gelbem Sandstein gehauene Taufstein stammt aus den Steinbrüchen bei Bentheim und ist ein schönes Stück romanischer Steinmetzkunst aud dem 13. Jh. Auf einem quadratischen Sockel stehen vier Löwen mit (gegen böse Geister) drohend gefletschtem Gebiß, und tragen ein Rundbecken, das mit Ornamenten aus Weinranken verziert ist." Noted in Westochtersum, Samtgemeinde Holtriem, Landkreis Wittmund [https://www.ostfriesischelandschaft.de] [accessed 26 May 2022]: "Zylindrischer Taufstein A. 13. Jh., Bentheimer Typ auf 4 Löwen (vgl. Hage)". Westochtersum is noted with a 13th-century font in Liste der historischen Kirchen in Ostfriesland [https://www.duhoctrungquoc.vn/wiki/de/Liste_der_historischen_Kirchen_in_Ostfriesland] [accessed 26 May 2022]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.609166, 7.508146
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 36′ 33″ N, 7° 30′ 29.33″ E
UTM: 32U 401299 5941073
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002