Kirchtimke / Timbike

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animal - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth

Scene Description: one such seen here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Derheim, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2014 by James Derheim [http://dolorespetitingermany.blogspot.com/2014/09/kirchtimke-ancestral-church.html] [accessed 4 December 2022]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 5

Scene Description: a broad central shaft with four outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Derheim, 2014
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the columns of the pedestal base
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus or grapevine

Scene Description: with at least one animal head in it
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirchtimke ist eine Gemeinde in der Samtgemeinde Tarmstedt im Landkreis Rotenburg (Wümme) in Niedersachsen"
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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the font in the bottom-left corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Derheim, 2014
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view of font in context

Scene Description: the two persons standing by the font here are identified in the blog source as Andre Kobus and Dolores Petit,
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Derheim, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2014 by James Derheim [http://dolorespetitingermany.blogspot.com/2014/09/kirchtimke-ancestral-church.html] [accessed 4 December 2022]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 24483KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Kirche St. Lambertus zu Kirchtimke
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Hinter d. Kirche 4, 27412 Kirchtimke, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4289 / 254
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rotenburg (Wümme), Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located 35-40 km ENE of Bremen, 50 km WSW of Hamburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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 mid-12thC(?); present church 1739
Font Notes:
Drake (2002) mentions a group sandstone font in Westphalia, "in the area south and slightly east of Bremen", which includes the fonts at Achim, Heiligenfelde, Riede and Verden cathedral, as well. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 20 June 2023) suggests that the group can be expanded to include the fonts of Kirchtimke, Stolzenau and Leese. The entry for this church in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskrche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-osterholz.de/Kirchengemeinden/Kirchtimke] [accessed 3 December 2022] reports a baptismal font in it originally from the medieval church that was replaced in 1739. Noted and partially illustrated in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskrche Hannovers [https://www.kirchengemeinde-kirchtimke.de/-ber-uns/Unsere-Denkmale-und-Kunstwerke] [accessed 3 December 2022] as a baptismal font of the 12th-13th century perhaps from the same workshop as the one in the cathedral at Verden: "Der Taufstein in Kirchtimke stammt aus dem 12./13. Jahrhundert, vielleicht aus derselben Werkstatt wie der Taufstein im Verdener Dom. Von einem mit vier Diensten besetzten Rundpfeiler wird das Taufbecken getragen. Den oberen Rand säumt ein Schmuckstreifen mit Ornamenten für das Wasser. In früherer Zeit hatte das Taufbecken einen Deckel mit Scharnier und innen einen Tonfuß für die kupferne Taufschüssel aus dem Jahr 1685. Im Zuge der Renovierung 1962 erhiel das Taufbecken eine kupferne Bekrönung mit vier Segmenten (Jesus und die Kinder, Taufe Jesu, Kreuzigung und Arche Noah) und eine Silberschale für das Wasser."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.25113, 9.15242
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 4.07″ N, 9° 9′ 8.71″ E
UTM: 32U 510170 5900218

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining