Bad Bederkesa
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coat of arms - Ratsherrn Jakob Hüneken?
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2011 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirche-bederkesa.de/gemeinde/st-jakobi-kirche/taufstein] [accessed 9 April 2023]
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2011 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirche-bederkesa.de/gemeinde/st-jakobi-kirche/taufstein] [accessed 9 April 2023]
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human figure - head - 4
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2011 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirche-bederkesa.de/gemeinde/st-jakobi-kirche/taufstein] [accessed 9 April 2023]
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2011 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirche-bederkesa.de/gemeinde/st-jakobi-kirche/taufstein] [accessed 9 April 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Jakobikirche (Bad Bederkesa)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ra Boe, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 May 2018 by Ra Boe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Bederkesa_-_St-Jakobi-Kirche_-_2018_by-RaBoe_08.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Jakobikirche (Bad Bederkesa)" -- the baptismal font is partially visible in the bottom-left corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ra Boe, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 May 2018 by Ra Boe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Bederkesa_-_St-Jakobi-Kirche_-_2018_by-RaBoe_29.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the two fonts in use: the old in the foreground; the modern one in the background, by the pulpit stairs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2011 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirche-bederkesa.de/gemeinde/st-jakobi-kirche/taufstein] [accessed 9 April 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24668BED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Jakobi Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Bergstraße 2, Bad Bederkesa, 27624 Geestland, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4745 782310
Country Name: Germany
Location: Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the K38 [aka Bergstraße], on the W shore of the Bederkesaer See, 20 km ENE of Bremerhaven
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Bremen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE area of the nave
Date: ca. 1644?
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Baroque
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: half-timbered church here first documented 1295; re-built 1644; demolished and re-built 1861; renovated 1990-2010
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirche-bederkesa.de/gemeinde/st-jakobi-kirche/taufstein] [accessed 9 April 2023] mentions and illustrates a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1644 in it: "Der pokalförmige Taufstein aus Sandstein ist ein Prunkstück dieser Kirche. Er wurde ca. 1644 geschaffen und stand bereits in der Vorgängerkirche." The same source shows the modern font here, and informs that parishioners can choose between the two to have their infants baptised; it gives Mathies (1998) as reference. Although the font bears an inscription below the upper rim of the basin we found no entry for Bad Bederkesa in the Deutschen Inschriften Online; the inscription appears to be a version of Matthew 28:19-20, perhaps from Luther's Bible of 1545? The coat of arms on the font is probably that of councilman [Ratsherrn] Jakob Hüneken: "Am Becken und Fuß des Taufpokals sind Fruchtwerk, Engelsköpfe und ein Wappen, wahrscheinlich des Stifters Ratsherrn Jakob Hüneken, erkennbar." Font cover of brass; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.62463, 8.841062
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 37′ 28.67″ N, 8° 50′ 27.82″ E
UTM: 32U 489488 5941771
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: below the upper rim of the basin
Inscription Text: [a version of "Darum gehet hin und lehret alle Völker und taufet sie im Namen", from Matthaeus 28:19-20 in Luther Bibel 1545?]
Inscription Source: [cf. ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Mathies, Ulrike, Die protestantischen Taufbecken Niedersachens von der Reformation bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 1998