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Scene Description: [NB: the drawing does not match the decoration expected in this group (Berge.a.Type I), as it is missing the fan-frieze on the lower basin sides, and the lions of the base -- not known how accurate this rendering is]
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Image Source: drawing in Quast & Otte (1856: 268)
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2
Scene Description: above and below the vine
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Image Source: drawing in Quast & Otte (1856: 268)
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design element - motifs - vine
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Image Source: drawing in Quast & Otte (1856: 268)
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view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J.-H. Janßen, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2013 by J.-H. Janßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Kirche_Recke_15.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - west portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2009 by Johannes K. Rücker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ev-dionysius-recke02.JPG] [accessed 12 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J.-H. Janßen, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2013 by J.-H. Janßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Kirche_Recke_17.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20356REC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Dionysiuskirche
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Denys [aka Dennis, Dionis, Dionysius]
Church Notes: original church first documented 1189, but may have replaced a 9thC wooden church here; expanded and tower added 13thC; expanded 15thC; two other churches in Recke (R.C. of 1752 and R.C. of 1955, using some elements of the earlier churches)
Church Address: Wieboldstraße 9, 49509 Recke, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5453 966118
Site Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located N of Hwy 30, E of Hwy 1, 20 km NE of Rheine, 25 km NW of Osnabrück
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Additional Comments: disused font / restored font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Quast & Otte (1856- ), who report an ancient font "aus Sandstein scheinbar Bentheimer oder Quader sandstein" located in 1854 beneath the tower half buried in rubbish and debris; a footnote by Quast informs that steps had been taken to right the evils of the past and have the font restored to its proper funcion in the church. Noted and illustrated in Otte (1883) [cf. infra]. Illustrated in Ludorf (1914). Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). Classed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Bentheim School, "Berge, a.Type I" (fonts at Ankum I, Arle, Berge, Borghorst, Emlichheim, Emstek, Gescher, Haselünne, Hattem, Jellum, Lastrup, Metelen, Münster Museum, Norg I, Ochtelbur, Ramsdorf, Recke, Toornwerd, Vries and Zweelo). The illustration in Quast & Otte [cf. supra] misses the fan-frieze pattern on the lower basin sides, and shows the base without the lions [NB: not known whether this is due to an inaccurate rendering, a different original base or a replacement base; this same drawing is used in Otte's Handbuch..., illustration which he attributes to Alfred Hartmann's Zeitschrift für christliche Archäologie und Kunst (1, 268)]. The presence of the Bentheim font in this church is confirmed in several local sources, including the Steinfurt city map site [https://steinfurt.city-map.de/02013001/protestant-church-recke] [accessed 13 February 2016].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 412730 5802778
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.368314, 7.718203
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 22′ 5.93″ N, 7° 43′ 5.53″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, P. 71, 177
- 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
- Ludorf, L., Die Bau- und Kunftdenkmäler von Westfalen, Paderborn: Komissions Verlag Von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1914, Kreis Tecklenburg, Taf. 23
- Quast, F. von, Zeitschrift für christliche Archäologie und Kunst, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1856-, Bd. I: 268, fig. 38