Wesuwe
Results: 4 records
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20221WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (?), Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, group Hage A.a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Pfarrkirche Wesuwe St. Clemens
Font Location in Church: Inside, W end of the centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Clement
Church Notes: present church ca. 1500
Church Address: Hemsener Straße [L48], 49733 Wesuwe, Germany
Site Location: Emsland, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the old L48, E of Hwy A31, in the municipality and 4-5 km SSW of Haren
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Osnabrück
Additional Comments: damaged font (one of the sides of the basin appears to have a large damaged and repaired area)
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 fints at: Berum (F), Forlitz-Baukirchen, Hage, Kappeln, Keitum, Ohne, Roden, Westochtersum and Wesuwe). The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesuwe] [accessed 4 October 2025] reports a baptismal font raised on a four-lion base and a similar stoup of the 13th century: "Aus dem 13. Jahrhundert stammen der Taufstein auf vier Löwenfüßen und ein gleichartiges Weihwasserbecken" [NB: the Wikipedia entry gives Dehio's Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Bremen Niedersachsen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0, Seite 1350, as reference]. An illustration of this church showing the font and its cover in context is provided in Wikimedia, a digital photograph taken 23 May 2022 by Heplogmann [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Haren-Wesuwe-St-Clemens-Orgel.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2025]
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 379507 5846652
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.756261, 7.214516
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 45′ 22.54″ N, 7° 12′ 52.26″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round wooden platform with crenellated uppr rim; tall figural finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 178