Werlte
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - horseshoe arches
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: one above and one below the arcade
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kath. Kirche St. Sixtus in Werlte"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heribert Duling (Famduling), 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2017 by Heribert Duling (Famduling) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werlte_-_St.Sixtus.JPG] [accessed 2 June 2022]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Inneres der St. Sixtus-Kirche in Werlte (Niedersachsen)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alfred Löhr, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 23 July 2020 by Alfred Löhr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werlte_Sixtus_innen.jpg] [accesed 2 June 2022]
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23998WER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Sixtus in Werlte
Church Patron Saints: St. Sixtus
Church Location: Hauptstraße 20, 49757 Werlte, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5951 995970
Country Name: Germany
Location: Emsland, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off local road N55 [aka Hauptstrasse/Poststrasse], 20 km W of Cloppenburg, 70-80 km NNW of Osnabrück
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Osnabrück
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim 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 documented 1100; replaced by church consecrated 1344; demolished 1832; new church same year; repaired and modified 1864-1869; burnued down in WWII in April 1945; restored 1947
Font Notes:
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Noted in Heimatverein Werlte [http://www.heimatverein-werlte.de/kirche.htm] [accessed 2 June 2022]: baptismal font made of Bentheim sandstone in 1130 [="Der Taufstein aus dem Jahre 1130 gehört zu den ältesten Kunstwerken der Kirche und besteht aus dem berühmten Bentheimer Sandstein."] The entry for this church in the Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen [https://denkmalatlas.niedersachsen.de/viewer/metadata/35948365/1/-/] [accessed 2 June 2022] notes: "romanischer Taufstein aus Bentheimer Sandstein aus der Zeit um 1200"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.85057, 7.677
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 2.05″ N, 7° 40′ 37.2″ E
UTM: 32U 410909 5856468
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round