Bucken / Bücken
Image copyright © Syker Fotograf, 2009
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Syker Fotograf, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Syker Fotograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_219.JPG] [accesse 24 February 2019]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Varus111, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2016 by Varus111 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken,_Dom.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Syker Fotograf, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Syker Fotograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_206.JPG] [accesse 24 February 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PaulT (Gunther Tschuch), 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2018 by PaulT (Gunther Tschuch) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_Stiftskirche1.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the Baroque font and its 1677 cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ulamm, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 March 2024 by Ulamm
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the Baroque font and its 1677 cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ulamm, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 30 March 2024 by Ulamm
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view of church interior - Holy Rood
Scene Description: ca. 1230 but some of the figures were added or restored in the 19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ulamm, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 September 2018 by Ulamm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:984Bücken_Chor_Triumphkreuz.JPG] [accessed 24 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: 13thC; Mary restored 1868 -- the stone pulpit said to be mid-13thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ulamm, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2018 by Ulamm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:984Bücken_Chor_Triumphkreuz.JPG] [accessed 24 February 2019]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: Late-Gothic retable of ca. 1510?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PaulT (Gunther Tschuch), 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2018 by PaulT (Gunther Tschuch) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_Stiftskirche3.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PaulT (Gunther Tschuch), 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2018 by PaulT (Gunther Tschuch) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_Stiftskirche4.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: the font seen in the centre of the image is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PaulT (Gunther Tschuch), 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2018 by PaulT (Gunther Tschuch) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_Stiftskirche2.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font cover
Scene Description: the 1677 font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ulamm, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 March 2024 by Ulamm
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern neo-Romanesque font of 1867 located in the centre of the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Syker Fotograf, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Syker Fotograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_220.JPG] [accesse 24 February 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: Baroque font located in the north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Syker Fotograf, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Syker Fotograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_219.JPG] [accesse 24 February 2019]
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angel - cherub - 4?
Scene Description: set at 90-degrees on the basin sides of the Baroque font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Syker Fotograf, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Syker Fotograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_219.JPG] [accesse 24 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GNU GPL
design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: all over the baluster-shaped base of the Baroque font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Syker Fotograf, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Syker Fotograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bücken_219.JPG] [accesse 24 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GNU GPL
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21993BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: 1677?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century (?), Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische Stiftskirche St. Materniani et St. Nicolai in Bücken [aka Bücker Dom]
Font Location in Church: Inside, in the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Madrun [aka Materiana, Madryn, Marcelliana, Mattriana, Merteriana] & St. Nicholas
Church Notes: original wooden church 10thC; re-built in stone through the 12th, 14th and 15thC;
Church Address: Marktstraße 23, 27333 Bücken, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4251 92167
Site Location: Nienburg, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 13 km NNW of Nienburg, 35-40 km SSE of Bremen
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Town/City Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bücken
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftskirche_St._Materniani_et_St._Nicolai] [accessed 13 February 2026] reports a Baroque font with a font cover of 1677, as well as a reo-Romanesque forn of the 19th century: "Ein barockes Taufbecken hat einen geschnitzten Deckel von 1677 und ein neuromanischer Taufstein stammt aus der Restaurierungszeit 1863–1867." There are two fonts in this church: one is a late-Baroque piece, probably 18th-century; the font in use, located in the chancel, is, according to the parish web site [https://stiftskirche-buecken.wir-e.de/unsere-kirche] [accessed 24 February 2019] dated 1867 and carved with scenes from the life of St. Boniface. The other one, however, may fit within the BSI scope and belong tp the 17th century, as does the font cover over it .
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 13 February 2025) suggests that the inscription which dates the font cover over the Baroque font to 1677 probably dates the font itseld; Pol Herman's message further includes a text from Jürgen Giszas, 20. Dezember 2022: Im nördlichen Seitenschiff der spätromanischen Basilika, deren (Bau)Geschichte bis ins 9. Jahrhundert zurückreicht, befindet sich eine barocke Taufe. Den Taufstein schmücken Darstellungen von – mit Flügeln versehenen – Engelsköpfen. Auf der hölzernen Deckelkrone, die aus dem Jahr 1677 stammt, findet sich eine Inschrift, die ein bekanntes Jesuswort aus Markus 10,14 wiedergibt: „Lasset die Kindelein“ … – In der Übertragung der Lutherbibel 2017 lautet es in Gänze: „Lasset die Kinder zu mir kommen und wehret ihnen nicht, denn solchen gehört das Reich Gottes.“
[NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 13 February 2025) suggests that the inscription which dates the font cover over the Baroque font to 1677 probably dates the font itseld; Pol Herman's message further includes a text from Jürgen Giszas, 20. Dezember 2022: Im nördlichen Seitenschiff der spätromanischen Basilika, deren (Bau)Geschichte bis ins 9. Jahrhundert zurückreicht, befindet sich eine barocke Taufe. Den Taufstein schmücken Darstellungen von – mit Flügeln versehenen – Engelsköpfen. Auf der hölzernen Deckelkrone, die aus dem Jahr 1677 stammt, findet sich eine Inschrift, die ein bekanntes Jesuswort aus Markus 10,14 wiedergibt: „Lasset die Kindelein“ … – In der Übertragung der Lutherbibel 2017 lautet es in Gänze: „Lasset die Kinder zu mir kommen und wehret ihnen nicht, denn solchen gehört das Reich Gottes.“
[NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 508796 5847793
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.779883, 9.130406
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 46′ 47.58″ N, 9° 7′ 49.46″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: on the font cover
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Notes: Mark 10, 14 [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1677
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes
Notes: counterweight?