Victorbur / St. Victoris-Hofe / Victoris-hove / Vitterbuur
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kreisbahn Aurich Reste lombardisch beeinflusster Formen an der Kirche Victorbur".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2008 by pixelfehler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorbur-Lombardisch.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the west wall seen here is what remains of the old tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.-Victor-Kirche_(Victorbur)55.JPG] [accessed 31 March 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2013 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Victorbur26.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the baptismal font is partially visible on the left [north] side, just west of the inscribed chancel arch](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190331019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the baptismal font is partially visible on the left [north] side, just west of the inscribed chancel arch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2008 by pixelfehler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorbur-Kircheninneres.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: said to be originally a Bentheimer font, but much altered through the centuries
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2008 by pixelfehler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorbur-Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22065VIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelish-lutherische St-Victor Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Viktor of Xanten
Church Location: Pestalozziallee 6, Victorbur, 26624 Südbrookmerland, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the 72-210 crossroads, 8-10 km W of Aurich, about 20 km NE of Emden
Historical Region: Südbrookmerland, Ostfriesland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [altered], Late Romanesque [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim workshop? [altered font]
Church Notes: original 11th or 12th church may have been a wooden structure replaced by a brick church 1220-1240; modified at later dates
Font Notes:
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The Parish web site [www.kirchengemeinde-victorbur.de/3_4_5_taufstein.html] [accessed 31 March 2019] describes the font here as originally being a 13th-century font of Bentheimer sandstone that had the four usual lions on the base, but much altered, re-tooled and re-carved through the centuries, the last time in 1868: "Der Taufstein entstammt vorreformatorischen Zeiten. Er wurde, wie so viele Taufsteine in Ostfriesland, im 13. Jahrhundert aus Bentheimer Sandstein geschaffen. Ursprünglich trugen vier steinerne Tierfiguren den Taufstein. Im Laufe der Jahrhunderte wurde der Taufstein mehrfach umgearbeitet und dabei stark verändert, zuletzt 1868. Hierbei wurde in der Werkstatt des Steinmetzen Niehaus in Emden am oberen Rand ein Eichenfries angebracht und die Tierfiguren am Schaft wurden begradigt. Seither zeigt sich das Taufbecken in seiner heutigen becherartigen Form." The font does resemble the general shape of the Bentheimer vessels, but, if it is indeed a re-working on a Bentheim original, all the original details are now gone; even the stone itself looks suspect. On a modern square plinth. Hat-shaped font cover of brass with decorated polygonal finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.48585, 7.34133
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 29′ 9.06″ N, 7° 20′ 28.79″ E
UTM: 32U 389944 5927600
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]