Haelen / Hale / Halen

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: drawing in Ligtenberg (1915: fig. 13)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond

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human figure - head

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human figure - head

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond

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human figure - head

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond

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Scene Description: detail of the museum inventory incluing the Haelen font details

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Image Source: digital image of an entry in the inventory of the Stedelijk Museum Roermond

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information

Image Source: extract of content [source N/A] forwarded by BSI contributor Pol Herman

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information

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information

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Image Source: digital image of content in the 15 December 2021 edition of REGIO [supplied by BSI contributor Pol Herman]

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view of basin - fragment

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 10 January 2022)

view of basin - fragment

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 10 January 2022)

view of basin - fragment

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 10 January 2022)

view of basin - fragment

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 10 January 2022)

view of basin - fragments

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Annemieke Broeke, Cuypershuis / Gemeente Roermond

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the modern font in this church shown in a baptismal ceremony

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken September 1905, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toren_-_Haelen_-_20099781_-_RCE.jpg?uselang=nl] [accessed 26 January 2017]

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view of font

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Image Source: drawing in Ligtenberg (1915: fig. 13)

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view of fragment

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20274HAE
Museum and Inventory Number: Stedelijk Museum Roermond [cf. FontNotes]
Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk Sint-Lambertus
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Kerkplein 13, Haelen, 6081 BA Leudal, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Leudal [since 2007]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm], to Pol Herman and to Annemieke Broeke for their help in documenting this font
Church Notes: original church here 13thC; re-built 19thC; enlarged 1937; blown up by the retreating German army 15 November 1944; ruins demolished; new church 1953
Ligtenberg (1915) notes a baptismal font located beneath the tower at the time. The Kerkgebouwen in Limburg site [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/haelen/lambertus] [accessed 30 December 2015] reports a baptismal font of ca. 1200 and informs: the font was moved to the choir in 1977, with the baptistery becoming the Sint-Jozefkapel. It is probably the item mentioned in De monumenten in de gemeente Maastricht. Deel 2(1974) [www.dbnl.org/tekst/nisp034monu03_01/nisp034monu03_01_0011.php] [accessed 26 January 2017]: "blz.691. Een derde doopvont, fragmentarisch bewaard, n.l. een gedeelte van een achthoekige kuip met een der hoekmaskers, Gothisch, XIV?, afkomstig uit Halen." [= "a fragment of a third font, namely a part of the octagonal basin with one of the masks on the corners, gothic, 14thC(?), from Halen"] A further communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 22 December 2021] reports: "Yesterday, the Stedelijk Museum Roermond sent me a page from their inventory book. [...] It mentions that in 1966 the priest of Nunhem sold the baptismal font of Haelen to the museum. After checking the study by Raphaël Ligtenberg (Romaansche Doopvonten in Niederlanden, Bulletin van den nederlandschen oudh. Bond 8, 1915, pag 154-252 ), I think that we can probably conclude that the basin and base in the garden at Cuypershuis Roermond is indeed the baptismal font of Haelen. The museum checked the dimensions with those given by Ligtenberg who found the basin under the tower of the church, and they matched; futher checks of the integrity of the fragment (e-mail of 10 January 2022) showed that the measurements correspond to thos of the fragment; the double-checking discovered the basin has further fragmented; new photographs were taken and were facilitated by Annemieke Broeke (Cuypershuis, Collectie) [NB: the full text (Dutch) of the e-mail museum confirmation follows: "Het doopvont is in 2009 op een pallet gezet en in het depot geplaatst. Op de foto’s die van te voren zijn gemaakt (en waarvan Gerard er één heeft gebruikt in het artikel in Via Roermond) is te zien dat er al flinke scheuren in de kuip aanwezig waren. Het vont is vermoedelijk op de pallet getakeld en van te voren met krimpfolie omwikkeld. Ter voorbereiding van een bezoek van Jos Pouls van vanmorgen hebben we de desbetreffende pallet uit het depot gehaald en hebben we de krimpfolie verwijderd. Tot onze schrik bleek toen dat de kuip volledig is doorgescheurd en nu bestaat uit drie delen! Ik stuur in twee mails de foto’s van de huidige situatie. Eén kopje van het vont is lang geleden al verdwenen en toen is met een soort betonmortel de vorm aangestreken. Ook op (een van) de kopjes zijn restauratie in een lichter materiaal te zien. Ik vermoed dat er behoorlijk wat aan ‘geknutseld’ is. Bij de grootste scheur middendoor zie ik bijvoorbeeld een ijzeren buis die neem ik aan niet origineel is. De afmetingen lijken te kloppen met het vont uit Haelen. De diameter zonder kopjes is 83 cm en mét kopjes ongeveer 95. De hoogte van de kuip is 38 cm. Het is jammer dat nu net het getekende kopje niet matcht met de drie aanwezige kopjes. Die hebben niet zo’n scheiding in het haar als op de tekening… Onder aan de kopjes zie je wel een aanzet van de voet van de kuip. De vorm van het vont klopt ook Het lijkt mij daarom toch aannemelijk dat het hier om het doopvont uit Haelen gaat. Het leek me goed om jullie even de foto’s van de huidige situatie te sturen." A further communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 6 February 2022) notes: 1) If you watch the pictures of the broken font of Haelen at the Museum Cuypershuis of Roermond, you see that a part of the basin is missing. A corner has been replaced by mortar, without head. 2) Today I read the following : Source : Jaarboek Monumentenzorg 1997. In dienst van het erfgoed. Rijksdienst voor de monumentenzorg, Zeist 1997 [https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa030199701_01/_jaa030199701_01.pdf] [accessed 6 February 2022], Under: The Collection of building fragments at the Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg. About : E.O.M. van Nispen tot Sevenaer, the director of the Rijksbureau voor de Monumentenzorg. In 1950 Van Nispen wrote to the diocese of Roermond: 'The building fragments of destroyed and damaged monumental churches in Limburg that I brought with me, are mainly limited to typical building materials, such as brick, rubble stone, iron rock, marl, etc. Only objects that, in my opinion, are from museum’s point of view are of no importance, but are of value [in] the collection of old and special building materials, which I have collected from all over the country.” With this answer Van Nispen was responding to a request from the diocese of Maastricht to the Rijksdienst for the return of building fragments, which were assumed - wrongly in his opinion - to be suitable for the Bisschoppelijk Museum in Maastricht, which was then being established, which later became the Bonnefanten Museum. For example : a fragment of a baptismal font had been found and taken away on the site of the church in Haelen, but it was already in the Bonnefantenmuseum, according to Van Nispen, who referred to P. Glazema of the Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek (ROB) for important finds that the diocese could maybe retrieve. (see Letter from Van Nispen to the secretary of the Diocese of Roermond, mr. W.P.H. Delhoofen, dated July 10, 1950, in response to his letter, dated July 3, 1950, both in RDMZ archive: old archive, 2029, XCI). 3) Therefore, I searched in the collection of the Bonnefanten museum, and I find an object of unknow provenance. [https://www.bonnefanten.nl/nl/collectie/1003026-087-hoekfragment-van-een-doopvont-met-een-hoofd-van-een-vrouw] [accessed 6 February 2022]. Observe that under the head you see the start of a colonnette. Only 2 such fonts existed in Limburg : Sevenum and Haelen (cf. Ligtenberg). 4) I am pretty sure that this fragment at the Bonnefanten museum is the lost corner of the Roermond museum. A further communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 21 July 2023) showed a reticence on the Maasgouw staff to publicise Pol Herman's piece on the state of affairs with this font and its fragments.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 705941 5679908

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: metal insert for the water
Diameter (inside rim): 83 cm* / **
Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm* / **
Basin Total Height: 38 cm* / **
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * Liegtenberg [NB: depth not measured as the font had a metal insert for the holy water] / ** Stedelijk Museum Roermond

REFERENCES

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; r["References"]