Altengamme / Hamburg-Altengamme / Olengamm / Oolgamm
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animal - mammal - lion - passant - in a circle
Scene Description: a number of medallion-like motifs
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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cleric - monk - 3
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180422016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dirtsc, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: three sets
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - crocketed
Scene Description: a pattern of a variety of these all around
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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human figure - in a circle
Scene Description: a number of them; too small to identy the details [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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symbol - cross - Greek - 3
Scene Description: one above each of the figures of the base
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Die Ev.-Luth. Kirche St. Nicolai in Altengamme wird 1247 beurkundet. Ein Feldsteinsaalbau mit einem Turm aus Holz. Im Foto die Nordansicht mit Kirchenfenstern."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pauli-Pirat, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2017 by Pauli-Pirat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feldsteinkirche_St._Nicolai_Altengamme.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: the formerly detached bell-cote is now linked to the church by a short covered passage
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_standardansicht.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the wwoden object in the top-right corner of the image is the early-17thC font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_altar_1.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the font and cover in the centre of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dguendel, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 February 2011 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Altengammer_Dorfkirche_St.Nicolai.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the early-17thC raised cover and the modern 1924 lid
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_kronleuchter.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the early-17thC raised cover and the modern 1924 lid
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2013 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snag_taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: showing the modern 1924 lid
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the early-17thC font cover lost in the forest of 'Hutständer'
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21691ALT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Dorfkirche St. Nicolai
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Kirchenstegel 11, Altengamme, 21039 Hamburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 40 7235236
Country Name: Germany
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the highway 25-404 crossroads, just N of the Elbe and the Hamburg-Lower Saxony border, 25 km SE of Hamburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, centre aisle
Date: 1380
Century and Period: 14th century (late), Gothic
Church Notes: church documented 1247 but probably mid-12thC; detached wooden bell-cote added ca. 1600; church collapsed 1747; re-built soon thereafter
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of bronze made in 1380, consisting of a cauldron-shaped basin raised on three human figures, to which was later added a brick two-step plinth; the basin has three pairs of thin mouldings on the sides; between the top and next pair is a pattern made up of tiny inscribed quatrefoils with crocketed tops; some of those tiny tops may have crosses on them; betwen the next pair of mouldings is a row of human and animal figures inscribed in medalions; the animals are clearly lions but it is difficult to discern details of the human figures; at the bottom, above the heads of the supporting figures, are Greek crosses; [NB: is there an inscription with the date 1380 on the font?]; the figures of the base stand facing outwards, the right hand to support the basin, the left hand down by the side of the body; they appear to be dressed in monk clothes; the two-step brick plinth is modern. The wooden cover above the font is early-17th century and is operated by a pulley system; it is painted and gilded, with painted inscriptions in the panels of the lower part. On the font are a modern baptismal dish and its cover, made in 1924 by Ernst Kahlbrand.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.429444, 10.269722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 25′ 46″ N, 10° 16′ 11″ E
UTM: 32U 584362 5920795
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century (early?)
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]