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coat of arms - Johann von Hoya
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andres Zumaya, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph by Andres Zumaya] in kreiszeitung.de [www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/diepholz/kirchdorf-ort120456/barenburger-taufstein-endlich-entschluesselt-9836050.html] [accessed 23 February 2019]
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inscription - detail
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andres Zumaya, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph by Andres Zumaya] in kreiszeitung.de [www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/diepholz/kirchdorf-ort120456/barenburger-taufstein-endlich-entschluesselt-9836050.html] [accessed 23 February 2019]
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inscription - detail
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andres Zumaya, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph by Andres Zumaya] in kreiszeitung.de [www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/diepholz/kirchdorf-ort120456/barenburger-taufstein-endlich-entschluesselt-9836050.html] [accessed 23 February 2019]
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptioText]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andres Zumaya, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph by Andres Zumaya] in kreiszeitung.de [www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/diepholz/kirchdorf-ort120456/barenburger-taufstein-endlich-entschluesselt-9836050.html] [accessed 23 February 2019]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Dorfkirche "Zum heiligen Kreuz" in Barenburg stammt aus der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts und wurde auf einer Vorgänger-Kapelle von 1200 errichtet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Losch, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2012 by Losch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorfkirche_in_Barenburg_(Kirchdorf)_IMG_3321.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2019]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the east end of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musikwerkstatt Petra Schlegel, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2011 [www.musikwerkstatt-schlegel.de/Chorarbeit/Gospel/11-09-25_bbg_kirche4.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2019]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font is located at the east end of the nave, north side -- the person standing by the font is Rolf Röper, who pursued the transcription and translation of the inscription on the font, and is described in the source as "Unter den sonntäglich etwa 20 Besuchern des Gottesdienstes in der Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andres Zumaya, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Andres Zumaya] in kreiszeitung.de [www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/diepholz/kirchdorf-ort120456/barenburger-taufstein-endlich-entschluesselt-9836050.html] [accessed 23 February 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21987BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Heilige-Kreuz Kirche
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: Im Flecken 29, 27245 Barenburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4273 1291
Country Name: Germany
Location: Diepholz, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the road 61 crossing of the Grosse Aue, bout halfway between Sulingen (N) and Kirchdorf (S). 40-45 km S of Bremen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, N side
Date: 1458
Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: original church may have been ca. 1200 of which some masonry remains; present church mid-14thC church; modified 15th/16thC with paintinsg of ca. 1500; wooden tower replaced with stone strucrure mid-1950s
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a 1485 hemispherical basin bearing the coat of arms of Hoya, and an inscription in Latin attributing the sponsorship of the work to Johann von Hoya and the date; the base is not the original but a later replacement. Noted and illustrated by Sylvia Wendt (photographs by Andres Zumaya] in kreiszeitung.de [www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/diepholz/kirchdorf-ort120456/barenburger-taufstein-endlich-entschluesselt-9836050.html] [accessed 23 February 2019]. Wnedt's article informs tha the inscription on the font was transcribed and translated from the Latin original by Dr. Christine Wulf, of the Inschriftenkommission an der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen: "Tausend vierhundert achtundfünfzig Jahre hat mich Johann von Hoya aus seinen Gütern errichten lassen. Er hat sein Territorium ebenso glücklich regiert, wie er ein fähiger Haudegen war."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.621025, 8.798971
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 15.69″ N, 8° 47′ 56.3″ E
UTM: 32U 486391 5830133
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: all around the side of the basin
Inscription Text: [German translation of the Latin original: "Tausend vierhundert achtundfünfzig Jahre hat mich Johann von Hoya aus seinen Gütern errichten lassen. Er hat sein Territorium ebenso glücklich regiert, wie er ein fähiger Haudegen war."]
Inscription Source: by Dr. Christine Wulf, of the Inschriftenkommission an der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen [cf. FontNotes]