Wennigsen am Deister No. 2
Image copyright © Rosual, 2008
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Results: 8 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Baudenkmal 253019.00091 Kirche Kloster Wennigsen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosual, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2008 by Rosual [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baudenkmal_253019.00091_Kirche_Kloster_Wennigsen.jpg] [accessed 15 December 2022]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wennigsen-Fan, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 January 2010 by Wennigsen-Fan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Wennigsen.jpg] [accessed 15 December 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Klosterkirche Weihnachten Wennigsen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wennigsen-Fan, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 3 January 2010 by Wennigsen-Fan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Wennigsen.jpg] [accessed 15 December 2022]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: below the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2019 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: all around, below the graded mouldings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2019 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
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design element - motifs - scroll - 4
Scene Description: a large one on every other side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2019 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
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view of font and baptismal dish in context
Scene Description: in the northeast corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2015 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bähren-Aye, 2005
Image Source: digital image in Bähren-Aye's Taufbecken in Niedersachsen (2005)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24514WEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1675
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late)
Cognate Fonts: Bavenstedt [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-Lutherische Klosterkirche Wenningsen
Font Location in Church: Inside the monastery church, NE croner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): [formerly dedicated to St. Mary & St. Peter]
Church Notes: fortified church tower ca. 1150; monastery (Augustinian nunnery) documented 1224; expanded 13th, 14th and 15thC; badly damaged early 17thC; partially re-built 18thC; refurbished 2011-2012; functions as an "externe Frauengemeinschaft" now [2012+] -- listed monument [253019.00091]
Church Address: Klosteramthof 3, 30974 Wennigsen (Deister), Germany
Site Location: Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off local road L390 [aka Degerser Str.], 15-20 km SW of Hannover
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Bähren-Aye (2005) as a baptismal font with date 1675 decorated with bas-reliefs: "Gruppe F – Schlichte oktogonale Steintaufen [...] sind mit ornamentalen Flachreliefs geschmückt", similar to the font at Bavenstedt. The introduction in the monastery church of a Baroque baptismal font after the destruction in the Thirty Years' War is mentioned in Kulturkresi Kloster [https://kulturkreis-kloster-wennigsen.de/kloster/] [accessed 15 December 2022]. The entry for this church in the Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen [https://denkmalatlas-niedersachsen-de] [accessed 15 December 2022] reports a baptismal font of 1675 in the monastery church.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 539176 5791714
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.274401, 9.574177
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 16′ 27.85″ N, 9° 34′ 27.04″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Bähren-Aye, Gisela, "Taufbecken in Niedersachsen: aus der Zeit vom Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts", Hamburg, 2005, p. 88