Marx No. 2
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/marx] [accessed 22 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/marx] [accessed 22 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 23775MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sint-Marcuskerk / Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Marci-Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Mark
Church Location: Papenstraße 18, Marx, 26446 Friedeburg, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 437 [aka Marxer-Hauptstraße], in the municipality and 1-2 km SE of Friedeburg, about 20 km SW of Wilhelmshaven
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1695
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Post-Reformation
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Font Notes:
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The entry for Marx in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/marx] [accessed 22 February 2022] notes and illustrates a gobblet-shaped hexagonal baptismal font made of wood, a gift from the church administrators of the city of Aurich in 1695 [="Kirchverwalters und Fendrich der Stadt Aurich“] [cf. BSI entry for Marx No. 1 for a 13thC(?) holy-water stoup in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.435857, 7.855364
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 26′ 9.08″ N, 7° 51′ 19.31″ E
UTM: 32U 423960 5921368
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: full transcription of the painted inscription not available
Inscription Location: painted on the basin sides
Inscription Text: "[...] Anno 1695 [...]"
Inscription Source: ImagesArea
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1695?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal dome with ball finial; painted