Bordelum

CC-BY-SA-2.5

Results: 7 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: notice the diagonal through crack across the basin underbowl; the basin was likely broken up and later restored

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Bordelum32.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: all the way down the stem

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Bordelum32.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Kirche St. Nikolai zu Bordelum, spätgotische Taufstein aus schwarzem Marmor mit Kerzen" -- notice the anchorage spots from an old font cover

Image Source: digital photograph 26 June 2022 by Willi Schewski in Imago [https://www.imago-images.de/fotos-bilder/Bordelum] [accessed 3 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bordelum, Kirche von Süden"

Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2021 by Alfred Löhr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bordelum_Kirche_von_Sueden.JPG] [accessed 3 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Bordelum Kirke i Sydslesvig. Skibet set mod øst"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Bordelum07.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bordelum Kirke i Sydslesvig. Bordelum kirke, døbefont"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Bordelum32.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bordelum, Kirche innen, nach W"

Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2021 by Alfred Löhr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bordelum_Kirche_innen_nach_W.JPG] [accessed 3 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 24424BOR

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche St. Nikolai zu Bordelum

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for Bordelum] Norderende at Kirchnweg, 25852 Bordelum, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4671 2227

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Bordelum is located off (E) the An d B5, between Oster- and Wester-Bordelum, 1-2 km N of Bredstdt, about 15 km NNW of Husum, 35-40 km WSW of Flensburg -- Röhrbeck was located on the disappeared island of Strand, in the Nordsee [cf. FontNotes]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Bordelum, E end, N side

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hainaut type font

Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Ecaussinnes, Odenbüll and others

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: Rörbeck church was damaged by the 1634 flood and said to have been demolished 1638 -- Bordelum 13thC(?) church; 1629 destroyed by fire; detached bell tower of 1633, renovated 1793; church re-built 1640; church restored 1888 and 2003

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Sauermann (1904) as a baptismal font of the second half of the 15h century. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with moulded sides raised on a an octagonal pdestal base decorated with mouldings as well. There is no cover at present but the upper rim shows evidence of early anchoring for a cover [cf. ImagesArea]. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 12 July 2022) refers to Sauermann's description and dating [cf. supra] but finds other uncorroborated sources more accurate: "On the Internet, its description is better : The late Gothic baptismal font made of black marble was manufactured in Belgium. Black marble should be : limestone. It is Hainaut-style. On Internet, I read: "The baptismal font is of late Gothic-Frisian form and probably comes from Rörbeck, a place on the old "Strand" that perished in a storm surge in 1634. Many churches in our area have benefited from such "floating debris" from the sea. But the people of Rörbeck didn't make the stone themselves either: they had it made in Belgium. The black marble altar and baptismal font were found in the mudflats after the great flood of 1634. Both are said to come from the sunken island "Strand". I did not find the source of this claim. The church of Rörbeck, damaged by the flood of 1634, is said to have been demolished in 1638."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.63813, 8.942

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 38′ 17.27″ N, 8° 56′ 31.2″ E

UTM: 32U 496257 6054526

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Sauermann, Ernst, Die Mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, 1904