Steterburg
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 4
Scene Description: two of them are visible here
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2015 by Johamar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzgitter-Thiede_-_Stiftskirche_Steterburg_-_Taufstein_2015-07.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: many, all the way down the base sides
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2015 by Johamar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzgitter-Thiede_-_Stiftskirche_Steterburg_-_Taufstein_2015-07.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2019]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: on alternate sides of the octagonal basin
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2015 by Johamar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzgitter-Thiede_-_Stiftskirche_Steterburg_-_Taufstein_2015-07.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2019]
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inscription
Scene Description: 1674 and SOLI DEO [GLORIA]?
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2015 by Johamar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzgitter-Thiede_-_Stiftskirche_Steterburg_-_Taufstein_2015-07.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2015 by Johamar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzgitter-Thiede_-_Stiftskirche_Steterburg_-_Südseite_2015-07.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2019]
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view of church exterior in context
![ruins of the monastery of Steterburg destroyed in the Thirty Years' War [ Dreißigjährigen Krieg] by the retreating Danes and, later, the Swedes -- Wolfenbüttel is noted the east [right] of Steterburg](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0190328005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: ruins of the monastery of Steterburg destroyed in the Thirty Years' War [ Dreißigjährigen Krieg] by the retreating Danes and, later, the Swedes -- Wolfenbüttel is noted the east [right] of Steterburg
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Image Source: digital image of a mid-17thC engraving in Matthäus Merian 's Topographia und Eigentliche Beschreibung Der Vornembsten Stäte, Schlösser auch anderer Plätze und Örter in denen Hertzogthümer[n] Braunschweig und Lüneburg, und denen dazu gehörende[n] Grafschafften Herrschafften und Landen (1654-1658, vol. 15), Digitalisat der HAB Wolfenbüttel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steterburg_(Merian).jpg] [accessed 28 March 2019]
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view of font
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font at the chancel
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22061STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Stiftskirche Steterburg [former church of the Stiftes Steterburg]
Church Patron Saints: [earlier dedicated to St. Christopher and St. Jaceb the Lesser)
Church Location: Am Alten Tor 2, Steterburg, 38239 Salzgitter, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5341 26129
Country Name: Germany
Location: Salzgitter, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Steterburg is located off (S) highway 39, in Salzgitter-Thiede, W of Wolfenbüttel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the choir [cf. FontNotes].
Date: 1674
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ulrich Wendt
Church Notes: present church is 1939 re-building of an earlier [ca. 1000?] abbey church here;
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal based with a runing inscription on the side [cf. InscriptionArea], below which are four human heads alternating with four floral or foliage motifs; the octagonal pedestal base is decorated with multiple mouldings. No cover present. Font made by Ulrich Wendt is said to have been a gift of Hedwig Maria von Oberg [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.19359, 10.47333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 36.92″ N, 10° 28′ 23.99″ E
UTM: 32U 600705 5783593
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin and numbers
Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "[...] / 1674 / SOLI / DEO / [GLORIA?]"
Inscription Source: ImageArea