Marienhafe / Marienhoff
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view of font - southwest side
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: with palmettes
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: a single one
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: with inverted fleurs de lys and more geometrical elements in it
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the central shaft
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20366MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, 5. Sögel, Type III [Drake]
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische Marienkirche
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Nave, E end, N side, by the pulpit
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: original wooden church believed pre-800; tufa stone church ca. 1000-1050; replaced by church first documented 1250; badly damaged in poor condition by 1820; partially demolished 1829 leaving the tower to half its earlier height; re-built 1834+
Church Address: Am Markt 20, 26529 Marienhafe, Germany -- Tel.: 04934 4166
Site Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 72, 10 km SE of Norden, 20 km NE of Emden, in the Samtgemeinde Brookmerland
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original ca. 800 or/and 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Font noted in Mithoff (1871-1880) and in Ligtenberg (1915). Classed in Drake (2002) as a font of the Bentheim School, "5. Sögel, c. Type III", in a sub-category all by itself. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with (top down) a double rope moulding or braid, a vine with palmettes, a single rope moulding and a vine with inverted fleurs de lys and some geometric elements; raised on the common round-to-square base with a roll moulding atop, and four couchant-regardant lions set at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft. The inner well is lined. There is no font cover present now but there is evidence of repaired damage to the upper rim of the basin that suggests anchorage points for an old cover.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 385469 5931804
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.522667, 7.272389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 31′ 21.6″ N, 7° 16′ 20.6″ 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, 77, 178
- 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. 174
- Mithoff, Hector Wilhelm Heinrich, Kunstdenkmale und Alterthümer im Hannoverschen (7 Bände), Hannover: Helwing, 1871-1880, Bd. VII; 140