St. Dionys in Barum
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by B. Neß in the Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Lüneburg [www.kirchenkreis-lueneburg.de/ihre_gemeinden/kirchengemeinden_land/stdionys/kirche_stdionys] [accessed 24 February 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B. Neß, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by B. Neß in the Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Lüneburg [www.kirchenkreis-lueneburg.de/ihre_gemeinden/kirchengemeinden_land/stdionys/kirche_stdionys] [accessed 24 February 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21990BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelish-Lutherische St. Dionysiuskirche zu St. Dionys
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Location: Barbarossaweg 2, 21357 St-Dionys, Barum, Germany -- Tel.: 04133/7194
Country Name: Germany
Location: Lüneburg, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located betwee the 404 (W) and the 209 (E), S of the Elbe river, 11-12 km N of Lüneburg
Historical Region: Lüneburger Elbmarsch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century
Church Notes: legend has Charlemagne founding a chapel here in 795; 17thC church demolished 1857; new church built 1860
Font Notes:
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According to the entry for this church in the Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Lüneburg [www.kirchenkreis-lueneburg.de/ihre_gemeinden/kirchengemeinden_land/stdionys/kirche_stdionys] [accessed 24 February 2019], the present font was retained from the earlier 17th-century church here. [NB: we have no information on the font of the earlier medieval church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.351944, 10.406111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 21′ 7″ N, 10° 24′ 22″ E
UTM: 32U 593593 5912344