Westerbur / Westerbuhr / Westerbure

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Image Source: digital photograph in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/westerbur] [accessed 21 February 2022]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hist. Kirche in Westerbur, LK Aurich, Ostfriesland"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 May 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchWesterbur.jpg] [accessed 21 February 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/westerbur] [accessed 21 February 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font is partially visible on the left [north] side, beneath the east gallery

Image Source: digital photograph 10 April 2009 by Antje Mexner [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westerbur_Orgel.jpg] [accessed 21 February 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23770WES

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Westerburer Kirche

Church Location: Pumpsieler Str., Westerbur, 26553 Dornum, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 3-4 km ENE of Dornum, about 25 km NNE of Aurich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the E corner

Century and Period: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: original church probably a chapel of ease to Fulkum parish church; became parish 1530; present church 1753 using some materials from the old building

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated as the base of a 13th-century baptismal font, round-to-octagonal, decorated with four figures set at 90-degree angles, in the entry for this church in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/westerbur] [accessed 21 February 2022]: "Von dem Taufbecken aus dem 13. Jahrhundert ist der achteckige Sockel mit den vier stützenden Figuren erhalten, der Taufstein wurde später ergänzt." 'Westerbur, Samtgemeinde Dornum, Landkreis Aurich' [https://www.ostfriesischelandschaft.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BIBLIOTHEK/HOO/HOO_Westerbur.pdf] [accessed 21 February 2022] notes: "Torso eines Taufsteins 13. Jh., achteckiger Sockel, der runde Schaft mit 4 Stützfiguren". The entry in [http://www.urlaub-in-westerbur.de/13882.html] [accessed 21 February 2022] describes it as a Bentheimer font of 1250: "Im Innern der Kirche befindet sich ein ein Bentheimer Taufstein aus der Zeit um 1250."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.657731, 7.494722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 39′ 27.83″ N, 7° 29′ 41″ E

UTM: 32U 400526 5946494

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: [modern]

Basin Exterior Shape: [modern]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, plain and modern