Eimke

Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2010
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design element - motifs - foliage
view of church exterior - north view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font-stoup is partially visible at the east end of the nave, right [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eimke_-_Dorfkirche_in_09_ies.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of church interior - retable
view of font
Scene Description: quite likely a former holy-water stoup now used as baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eimke_-_Dorfkirche_in_05_ies.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 22006EIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Feldsteinkirche St. Marien in Eimke
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Twiete 1, 29578 Eimke, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Uelzen, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located in the Lüneburger Heide
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Church Notes: original chapel belonging to Ebstorfer Klosterkirche; present church started 14thC
Font Notes:
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The stone object now used as baptismal font and located at the east end of the nave looks very much like a former holy-water stoup re-cycled for baptismal use. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here)
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 588428 5869374