Twelven / Twelven
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Grabungsleiter Andreas Siegel geht am Bullerspring durch Fundamente einer Kirche. Das Gotteshaus gehörte einst zum Ort Twelven, der dort bis 1530 existierte und danach verlassen wurde. Unter den Grundmauern der Kirche wurden Reste einer weiteren, älteren Kirche entdeckt."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert / Braunsweiger Zeiting, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph by Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert [https://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/niedersachsen/article226492569/Archaeologen-entdecken-Reste-von-alter-Kirche-bei-Marienborn.html] [accessed 3 July 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24723TWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: [originally from the parish church of Twelven]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for Marienborn Kloster] Gemeindepl 63, 39365 Marienborn, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Börde, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: The abandoned hamlet of Twelven site is near and to the S of Marienborn. Marienborn is located off (S) highway 2, 6-7 km ESE of Helmstedt, about half-way between Brounsweig (W) and Magdebburg (E)
Font Location in Church: [moved to the Klosterkirche Marienborn
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
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 replaced 12thC; hamlet probably destroyed and abandoned in the Bauernkrieges (1524-1525); documented abandoned 1530
Font Notes:
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The excavation of a disappeared hamlet and its church in Twelven, near Marienborn is reported in the Braunsweiger Zeitung edition of 15 July 2019 [https://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/niedersachsen/article226492569/Archaeologen-entdecken-Reste-von-alter-Kirche-bei-Marienborn.html] [accessed 3 July 2023]. Also reported in the 2 August edition of Archaeologie Online [https://www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/frueher-kirchenbau-am-quellheiligtum-entdeckt-4362/] [accessed 3 July 2023]. The article Fund des Monats März 2018: Archäologisch-historischer Wanderweg Marienborn: Von der heiligen Quelle zum Quellheiligtum in the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt [https://archlsa.de/bodendenkmalpflege/fund-des-monats/2018/maerz-2018.html] [accessed 3 July 2023] reports a 12th-century baptismal font from the Twelven church having been moved to the Klosterkirche Marienborn.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 644088 5785046
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone