Emlichheim / Emmelkamp
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image in Patricia Gemmen's The Emlichheim Baptismal Font (Taufstein) [https://bentheimheritage.com/descendant-stories/emlichheim-baptismal-font/] [accessed 25 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - opposed thread directions - 2
Scene Description: above and below the vine, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patricia Gemmen, 2022
Image Source: digital image in Patricia Gemmen's The Emlichheim Baptismal Font (Taufstein) [https://bentheimheritage.com/descendant-stories/emlichheim-baptismal-font/] [accessed 25 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - vine - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patricia Gemmen, 2022
Image Source: digital image in Patricia Gemmen's The Emlichheim Baptismal Font (Taufstein) [https://bentheimheritage.com/descendant-stories/emlichheim-baptismal-font/] [accessed 25 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - palmette - fan-palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patricia Gemmen, 2022
Image Source: digital image in Patricia Gemmen's The Emlichheim Baptismal Font (Taufstein) [https://bentheimheritage.com/descendant-stories/emlichheim-baptismal-font/] [accessed 25 January 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Herfoarme tsjerke, Emlichheim (Emmelkamp)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 12 February 2021 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herfoarme_tsjerke,_Emlichheim_(Emmelkamp).jpg] [accessed 25 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patricia Gemmen, 2022
Image Source: digital image in Patricia Gemmen's The Emlichheim Baptismal Font (Taufstein) [https://bentheimheritage.com/descendant-stories/emlichheim-baptismal-font/] [accessed 25 January 2022]
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: the usual Bentheim smirking lions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patricia Gemmen, 2022
Image Source: digital image in Patricia Gemmen's The Emlichheim Baptismal Font (Taufstein) [https://bentheimheritage.com/descendant-stories/emlichheim-baptismal-font/] [accessed 25 January 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23700EML
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. Drake (2002: 177) "3. Berge. a. Type" for cognates]
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-reformierten Kirche Emlichheim
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: 12thC church of Bentheim sandstone; modified/re-built 1484; later modified, restored and renovated;
Church Address: Am Kirchpl., 49824 Emlichheim, Germany
Site Location: Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B403 [aka Wilsumer Strasse], on the N bank of the Vechte river, 20 km S of Emmen, 25 km NW of Nordhom, by the Dutch border, 50-60 km N of Enschede
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the Bentheimer group classified in Drake (2002) as "3. Berge. a. Type". A baptismal font in Emlichheim of the Bentheim type is mentioned in Romanische Taufsteine 'Bentheimer Typ' [http://www.sandsteinmuseumbadbentheim.de/?page_id=456] [accessed 25 January 2022]. The font is described and illustrated in Patricia Gemmen's The Emlichheim Baptismal Font (Taufstein) [https://bentheimheritage.com/descendant-stories/emlichheim-baptismal-font/] [accessed 25 January 2022], published originally in the First in Focus newsletter of the First Christian Reformed Church in Allendale, Michigan. A German-language version under title Das Emlichheimer Taufbecken (Taufstein) can be found in the Bentheimers International Society [https://bentheimheritage.com/nachkommengeschichte/emlichheim-baptismal-font-2/] [accessed 25 January 2022].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 354551 5830439
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.604475, 6.85213
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 16.11″ N, 6° 51′ 7.67″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: Inscription on cover: "Wer da glaubet und getauft wird, der wird selig werden."