Fulkum

Image copyright © Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland, 2022
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Results: 4 records
design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 4
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: present 1862 church is a re-building of a medieval brick church here, itself a re-building of earlier wooden churches in this place
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frisia Orientalis, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchFulkum.jpg] [accessed 13 June 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the far [east] end, left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J-Standfuss, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2010 [www.j-standfuss.de/chroniken.htm] [accessed 13 June 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der älteste Gegenstand in der Kirche ist der schlichte Taufstein (Granit) aus dem 11./12. Jahrhundert. Er hat wahrscheinlich schon in einer der ersten Vorgängerbauten aus Holz gestanden."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/fulkum] [accessed 22 February 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20292FUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Maria-Magdalena-Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Am Bahnsteig 5, 26427 Holtgast, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) troad 210, 6-7 km WSW of Esens
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, N side
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FiontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: present 1862 church is a re-building of a medieval brick church here, itself a re-building of earlier wooden churches in this place
Font Notes:
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Drake (2002) writes: "There are three fonts which slight vertical articulations in the manner of Vledder and Apeldoorn, the lower half cut back to provide the appearance of a massive central shaft flanked by four engaged colonnettes. These are Fulkum and Fu[n]nix [...] and Dunum". The entry for Fulkum in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/fulkum] [accessed 22 February 2022] notes and illustrates a granite font, said to be 11th-12th century and have existed in the early wooden church here [="Der älteste Gegenstand in der Kirche ist der schlichte Taufstein (Granit) aus dem 11./12. Jahrhundert. Er hat wahrscheinlich schon in einer der ersten Vorgängerbauten aus Holz gestanden."]. The font is plain and made of granite, the basin raised on four clustered colonnettes; the wooden cover is dated 1636. The font is located at the east end of the nave, north side.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.632609, 7.525678
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 37′ 57.39″ N, 7° 31′ 32.44″ E
UTM: 32U 402513 5943657
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1636
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002