Haaksbergen / Hoksebarge
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Scene Description: this may be the composite font created from tghe 13thC base and the late-17thC basin; appears to be used here [date unknown] as a planter
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by R. Kampman, provided by Pol Herman
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michiel1972 / M.M.Minderhoud, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 2 September 2012 by Michiel1972 / M.M.Minderhoud [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RM18866_Haaksbergen.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2021]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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view of base in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2025 by Joost Limburg
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view of base - fragment - in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2025 by Joost Limburg
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2025 by Joost Limburg
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human figure
Scene Description: one of the original four?
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information
![font record in Joost Limburg's Romanesque Baptismal Fonts in the Netherlands / Romaanse doopvonten in Nederland [https://joostlimburg.photos/dutchfonts/#haaksbergen] [accessed 16 March 2026]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1260316020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: font record in Joost Limburg's Romanesque Baptismal Fonts in the Netherlands / Romaanse doopvonten in Nederland [https://joostlimburg.photos/dutchfonts/#haaksbergen] [accessed 16 March 2026]
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Image Source: font record in Joost Limburg's Romanesque Baptismal Fonts in the Netherlands / Romaanse doopvonten in Nederland [https://joostlimburg.photos/dutchfonts/#haaksbergen] [accessed 16 March 2026]
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human figure - 4?
Scene Description: one of the original four, barely discernible now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © R. Kampman, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by R. Kampman, provided by Pol Herman
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © R. Kampman, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by R. Kampman, provided by Pol Herman
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Image Source: digital image of an undated drawig [signature illegible] [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
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view of base in context
Scene Description: the fragment (base) of the 13thC font as displayed inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Protestantse gemeente te Haaksbergen-Buurse, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 4 April 2009 in the Protestantse gemeente te Haaksbergen-Buurse [https://www.pkn-haaksbergen.nl/de_kerk_te_haaksbergen/] [accessed 6 December 2021]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23581HAA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only] 17th century(late?] [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font? [base only]
Museum: In 1985 the baptismal font was temporarily lent to the Rijksmuseum Twente
Church / Chapel Name: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk in Haaksbergen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Previous Font Location(s): Sint-Pancratiuskerk, Haaksbergen
Church Notes: the RC Pancratiuskerk in this town is originally 12thC and may be where the medieval font came from
Church Address: Jonkheer von Heijdenstraat 4, 7481 ED Haaksbergen, Netherlands
Site Location: Overijssel, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N347, 1-12 km SW of Enschede
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font (13thC(?) base fragment with late-17thC(?) basin) -- Joost Limbourg informs that the case in which the old base fragment is displayed serves actually as the base for a baptismal dish that is placed atop for baptisms
Font Notes:
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[NB: information on the composite font here from several sources as noted below]. G.J. Leppink's Het Doopvont ca.1258, in Aold Hoksebarge, Orgaan van de Heemkundige Kring Haaksbergen, no. 4 - november 1995, page 1856,: About 1210 the lord no longer felt at home in his court and built his now fortified court in another place, called the Blanckenborgh, just north of the village centre, on the bifurcation of the Blankenburg and the Ds. van Kriekenstraat, still known by the old people as the "Endeke too". This lord of the castle on Blankenborgh probably had a baptismal font hewn from Benthelmer stone, and placed in the church in the middle of the 13th century. In 1963 church warden J.W. Meier accidentally found a lump of Bentheimer stone during excavation work in the garden of the Reformed rectory in Haaksbergen, which on closer examination turned out to be the pedestal of this baptismal font. The Romanesque sculpture is badly damaged and the basin, which must have been violently knocked off, was missing. Of the four supporting figures, one is quite well preserved. It is a seated man, head thrust forward, arms resting straight forward on his thighs. Face and hands are indistinguishable. The damage probably originated during the 80-year war. As a reminder of the earliest times of the Christian community in Haaksbergen, this foot was cleaned in 1979 and set up in the Richtershof. In 1985 the baptismal font was temporarily lent to the Rijksmuseum Twente. It has been back in the Richtershof since September 1989.
Hagens H.,"Oude doopvonten in Twente", 't Inschrien 1983, p. 11 and Historie van Haaksbergen.
The Protestantse gemeente te Haaksbergen-Buurse [https://www.pkn-haaksbergen.nl/de_kerk_te_haaksbergen/] [accessed 6 December 2021] shows a fragment of a baptismal font in a glass cage and informs that it is the base of a 13th-century baptismal font unearthed during works in 1963; of the four original supports around the base one still shows a human figure with hands resting on the thighs, and to the right of it is the contour of another human figure; the fragment is now used in combination with a late-17th century basin [NB: the Richtershof is a multi-purpose meeting room next to the Reformed Church at Haaksbergen].
Updated information appears in the corresponding antry in Joost Limburg's Romanesque Baptismal Fonts in the Netherlands / Romaanse doopvonten in Nederland [https://joostlimburg.photos/dutchfonts/#haaksbergen] [accessed 16 March 2026]: "in 1963 the font, of which only the base remains, was found buried in the garden of the presbytery. In 2009 it was placed in the Protestantse Kerk."
Hagens H.,"Oude doopvonten in Twente", 't Inschrien 1983, p. 11 and Historie van Haaksbergen.
The Protestantse gemeente te Haaksbergen-Buurse [https://www.pkn-haaksbergen.nl/de_kerk_te_haaksbergen/] [accessed 6 December 2021] shows a fragment of a baptismal font in a glass cage and informs that it is the base of a 13th-century baptismal font unearthed during works in 1963; of the four original supports around the base one still shows a human figure with hands resting on the thighs, and to the right of it is the contour of another human figure; the fragment is now used in combination with a late-17th century basin [NB: the Richtershof is a multi-purpose meeting room next to the Reformed Church at Haaksbergen].
Updated information appears in the corresponding antry in Joost Limburg's Romanesque Baptismal Fonts in the Netherlands / Romaanse doopvonten in Nederland [https://joostlimburg.photos/dutchfonts/#haaksbergen] [accessed 16 March 2026]: "in 1963 the font, of which only the base remains, was found buried in the garden of the presbytery. In 2009 it was placed in the Protestantse Kerk."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman and to Joost Limburg for their documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 345578 5780615
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.154414, 6.742692
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 9′ 15.89″ N, 6° 44′ 33.69″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim?)
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round