Burhafe
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Scene Description: "die Wappen der Familien Windesheim, Stumpfeln, Redern und Wichmannsdorf"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/burhafe] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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inscription
Scene Description: includes the date 1657
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/burhafe] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hist. Kirche in Burhafe, LK Wittmund, Ostfriesland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frisia Orientalis, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 25 May 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchBurhafe.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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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/burhafe] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Besonderes Kunstwerk und Schmuckstück der Kirche ist das achteckige Taufbecken und der entsprechende Taufdeckel aus dem Jahre 1657"
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/burhafe] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23780BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische St.-Florian-Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Florian
Church Location: Hauptstraße 3, Burhafe, 26409 Wittmund, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (S) road 210, in the municipality and 3-4 km E of Wittmund, about 20 km WNW of Wilhelshaven, 30 km ENE of Aurich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1657
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Post-Reformation
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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: church first mentioned 1420, but excavations indicate the presence of a wooden church here in the 11th/12thC; first stone church built 12thC; demolished mid-13thC and replaced by a three-bay new church; re-built 1821; detached bell tower of the 15thC
Font Notes:
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The entry for Burhafe in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/burhafe] [accessed 22 February 2022] notes and illustrates a wooden baptismal font and cover of 1657 [="Besonderes Kunstwerk und Schmuckstück der Kirche ist das achteckige Taufbecken und der entsprechende Taufdeckel aus dem Jahre 1657"]. The font bears two painted inscriptions: on the basin: "1657 ZU GOTTES EHREN HAT JUNGFFER GERDRUT VON WINDESHEIM DISER TOFFE VERVERTIGEN LASSEN", and on the cover: "WER DA GKLAUBET UNND GETAUFFET WIRT, DER WIRT SELICH WERDEN", the latter from Mark 16, 16.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.576212, 7.824183
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 34′ 34.36″ N, 7° 49′ 27.06″ E
UTM: 32U 422147 5937015
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: Painted inscriptions on the font and the cover
Inscription Location: on the sides of the font (1) and the cover (2)
Inscription Text: 1) "1657 ZU GOTTES EHREN HAT JUNGFFER GERDRUT VON WINDESHEIM DISER TOFFE VERVERTIGEN LASSEN"
2) "WER DA GKLAUBET UNND GETAUFFET WIRT, DER WIRT SELICH WERDEN"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1657
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley