Leer No. 2 / Hleri / Läär / Læær / Ler / Lheer / Lier / Loga / Lüer

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

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Results: 13 records

design element - patterns - interlace

Scene Description: around the rim of the plaster font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: this font is made of plaster and beautifully decorated

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the 1738 re-builting of Lutherkirche Leer

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lutherkirche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Leer, 2018

Image Source: edited digital image of an illustration reproduced in Lutherkirche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Leer [http://lutherkirche-leer.de/lutherkirche/gebaude-und-orte/kirche] [accessed 26 November 2018]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the rather peculiar northest view of the church (seen here in its maquette)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the original 1675 Lutherkirche Leer

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lutherkirche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Leer, 2018

Image Source: edited digital image of an illustration reproduced in Lutherkirche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Leer [http://lutherkirche-leer.de/lutherkirche/gebaude-und-orte/kirche] [accessed 26 November 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the present Lutherkirche Leer

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikiwal, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2010 by Wikiwal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leer_Lutherkirche2.JPG] [accessed 26 November 2018]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with one of the two modern fonts in the foreground

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikiwal, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2010 by Wikiwal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leer_Lutherkirche_Langhaus.JPG] [accessed 26 November 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: one of the two modern fonts; this one is made of plaster and beautifully decorated

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font

Scene Description: one of the two modern fonts; this one is made of plaster and beautifully decorated

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font

Scene Description: this modern font was made from a single block of Bentheim sandstone in 2016 by Gerd Christmann

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the second of the two modern fonts in this church

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21899LEE
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Leer
Church Location: Patersgang 1, 26789 Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany -- Tel.: +49 491 2737
Country Name: Germany
Location: Leer, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (E) highway 436 [aka Emsstrasse], 15 km N of Papenburg, 16 km SE of Emden, 90 km from Bremen
Historical Region: Ostfriesland
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1675?
Century and Period: 17th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this church and modern fonts
Church Notes: church here of 1675 said to have been built with materials from the Kloster Thedinga [aka Kloster Seyna], a late-12thC Benedictine monastery in Nüttermoor; Leer Kirche was modified and expanded 18th, 19thC
There are two fonts now in this church, but neither of them is the one from the original 1675 church here [presumed lost?]. At the feet [west] of the nave is a font consisting of a shallow octagonal basin with foliated underbowl, with some palmettes in it; the next segment down, also octagonal, has floral and floriated crosses on the vertical sides; the stem of the base is decorated with rectangular colour panels; the lower bas is octagonal as well, with graded mouldings; the whole is made of painted and gilded plaster, said to be a replica, but we have no information what it was copied after. The present font in use stands at the east end of the nave, near the altar; it is monolithic, a single block of Bentheim sandstone made in 2016 by Gerd Christmann; the basin is quatrefoiled inside and out, the base a square pedestal with plain panels. There is no cover present on either of the two fonts. [cf. Index entry for Leer No. 2 for the Romanesque font of the ca. 1200 church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.226602, 7.447012
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 35.77″ N, 7° 26′ 49.24″ E
UTM: 32U 396328 5898604