Heppens in Wilhelmshaven No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 20354HEP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Lutherische Heppenser St. Nikolai Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Heppenser Str. 29, 26384 Wilhelmshaven, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4421 302279
Country Name: Germany
Location: Wilhelmshaven, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Heppens is now part of Wilhelmshaven
Historical Region: Rüstringen, Oldenburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font
Church Notes: present church 1495
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Die Bau- und Kuns... (1896-1909). Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). The Nordsee Stadt Wilhelmshaven entry for this church [www.wilhelmshaven.de/tourismus_freizeit/heppenser-kirche.htm] [accessed 10 February 2016] confirms the presence of a "Taufstein aus den Anfängen des 13. Jahrhunderts" in it. The entry for this church in Wilhelshaven Touristik [www.wilhelmshaven-touristik.de/wt/DE/Ueber_WHV/index/Heppenser-Kirche-–-St.-Nikolai] [accessed 10 February 2016] too, confirms the presence of an early font, and suggests it might have been originally from the church at Dauens, which fell into the sea.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.532222, 8.128056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 31′ 56″ N, 8° 7′ 41″ E
UTM: 32U 442206 5931832

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

REFERENCES

Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Herzogtums Oldenburg (5 Heften), München: MDZ, 1896-1909
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; p. 173