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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the late-18thC church that replaced a medieval church of ca.1200 demolished in 1787

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Januar 2007 by T.Bosse [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Große_kirche_leer.JPG] [accessed 26 November 2018]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the late-18thC church that replaced a medieval church of ca. 1200 demolished in 1787

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 February 2013 by Dickelbers [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buildings_in_de_old_town_of_Leer_(Ost_Friesland)_19.JPG] [accessed 26 November 2018]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gruft der Familie von Wedel in der Reformierten Kirche (Loga), Am Schlosspark in Leer (Ostfriesland)" -- with a partial view of the restored font in the upper-left corner of the image

Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2018 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leer_-_Am_Schlosspark_-_Reformierte_Kirche_-_Gruft_01_ies.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Reformierte Kirche (Loga), Am Schlosspark in Leer (Ostfriesland)" -- showing the restored font by the pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2018 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leer_-_Am_Schlosspark_-_Reformierte_Kirche_in_14_ies.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: baptismal font from the original medieval church of ca.1200 demolished in 1787

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2012 by Wikiwal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leer_Große_Kirche_Taufstein_(1).JPG] [accessed 26 November 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: baptismal font from the original medieval church of ca.1200 demolished in 1787

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2012 by Wikiwal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leer_Große_Kirche_Taufstein_(2).JPG] [accessed 26 November 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the restored font by the pulpit

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2018 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leer_-_Am_Schlosspark_-_Reformierte_Kirche_in_14_ies.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the much altered Bentheim font

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21900LEE

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-reformierte Große Kirche Leer

Church Location: Kirchstraße 14, 26789 Leer, Germany

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: inside the church, in the nave

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his additional help to document this font

Church Notes: first church here a wooden one ca. 791; Romanesque church of St. Liudger ca. 1200 [demolished 1787]; present church 1785-1787

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Dutch Wikipedia entry for this church [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervormde_kerk_(Loga)] [accessed 3 October 2023] describes the medieval font in it as the oldest object in the church, a Romanesque baptismal font made of Bentheim sandstone; it notes that it altered by removing some of the ornaments characteristics of many of the Bentheim fonts, and the pedestal with the lion figures; it further notes that this font had been replaced in the 19th century by a smaller font and that the old one was relegated to the outside, in front of the church; later, in the first half of the 20th century, the medieval font had been re-purposed as a cooling vat in the forge, until it was re-discovered after WWII and restored to the church ["Het oudste voorwerp in de kerk is het romaanse doopvont van Bentheimer zandsteen. Het doopvont werd ontdaan van de ornamenten en het voetstuk met de leeuwengestalten. In de 19e eeuw verving men het doopvont door een kleiner doopvont en bracht men het oude doopvont naar buiten waar het een plaats kreeg voor de kerk. Later, in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw, diende het romaanse doopvont als koelbekken van een smidse totdat het na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd herontdekt en opnieuw naar de kerk werd overgebracht."] The entry in the German Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Große_Kirche_(Leer)] [accessed 3 October 2023] describes the font as a Bentheim, probably from the earlier church[ it gives Kroesen, Steensma: Kirchen in Ostfriesland. 2011, S. 217, 220. as reference]. Not listed in Drake (2002). The baptismal font now [cf. supra] consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with only a broad flat moulding around the upper basin side, a simple roll moulding at the bottom end; raised on a broad cylindrical pedestal base and a square lower base. No cover present but, as is common in northern churches, it has a metal baptismal dish on it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.228433, 7.449647

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 42.36″ N, 7° 26′ 58.73″ E

UTM: 32U 396509 5898804

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round