Hojer / Højer

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth - 4

Scene Description: grotesque heads with wide shapes issuing from their mouths and forming wing-like shapes

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design element - architectural - columns - 5

Scene Description: detached columns

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human figure - head - 4

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Højer Kirke"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hjart, 2020

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view of church interior - altar

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.-Peter-Kirche in Højer: gotischer Flügelaltar von 1425, wahrscheinlich aus einer Lübecker Werkstatt."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jürgen Howaldt, 2011

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23555HOJ
Church/Chapel: Højer kirke
Church Patron Saints: [original church dedicated to St. Peter]
Church Location: Kirkegårdsgade 5, 6280 Højer, Denmark
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Sydjylland, Syddanmark
Directions to Site: Located off local road 419, in the municipality and 10 km WNW of Tønder and highway 11, about 50 km WNW of Flensburg
Ecclesiastic Region: Ribe Stift
Historical Region: Tønder-Højer-Lø herred / Tønder Amt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font
Cognate Fonts: Ballum, Tønder, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: church documented 1325-1350
Noted in Sauerman (1904) as similar to the fonts at Hönnepel, Boisheim and Born. Noted in Mackeprang (1941, 2003) in a small group of baptismal font made of limestone in Namur and imported to south Jutland. Inventoried and illustrated in Danmarks kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Sjyll_1025-1049_01.pdf] [accessed 21 November 2021] as a Romanesque [!] font of black Namur limestone, only the basin of which is original; the columnar base is a later replacement introduced during the restoration of the font. The font consists of a cylindrical basin with four human heads protruding at 90-degree angles on the upper sides, the panels between decorated with large grotesque heads with foliage stemming from their mouths and forming wing-like shapes; raised on a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes, all plain; the lower base is square and appears plain as well [NB: the whole base is a modern replacement as per DK above]. The complex font cover is described in DK (ibid.) as Baroque, of 1685.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.96244, 8.69802
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 57′ 44.78″ N, 8° 41′ 52.87″ E
UTM: 32U 480665 6090654

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: inner metal lining or insert in place
Diameter (includes rim): 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Danmarks kirker

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1685 / Baroque
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes; pulley

REFERENCES

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941
Sauermann, Ernst, Die Mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, 1904