Brackwede / Quirkendorp

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark

Scene Description: seated and holding a book

Image Source: digital photograph 29 August 2011 in the Kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de [https://kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de/pages/kirche/taufbecken.php] [accessed 12 July 2023]

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inscription

Scene Description: with the date of the font

Image Source: digital photograph 29 August 2011 in the Kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de [https://kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de/pages/kirche/taufbecken.php] [accessed 12 July 2023]

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inscription - partial

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 29 August 2011 in the Kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de [https://kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de/pages/kirche/taufbecken.php] [accessed 12 July 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Bielefeld, Deutschland: Ev.-luth. Bartholomäus-Kirche Brackwede."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 April 2008 by Zefram [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bielefeld_Bartholomäus-Kirche_2.jpg] [accessed 12 July 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 1685 baptismal font after its restoration

Image Source: digital photograph 29 August 2011 in the Kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de [https://kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de/pages/kirche/taufbecken.php] [accessed 12 July 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24768BRA

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherischen Bartholomäus Pfarrkirche Brackwede

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: Kirchweg 10, 33647 Bielefeld, Germany -- Tel.: +49 521 942380

Country Name: Germany

Location: Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off (E) of Bd61 [aka Ostwestfalendamm], in the municipality and 4-5 km SSW of Bielefeld, about 50 km SW of Osnabrück

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1685

Century and Period: 17th century(late),

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: church first documented 1216; modified 15thC; again in 1660; re-built 1892; burned down 1990; re-built thereafter

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in the Kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de web site [https://kirchengemeinde-brackwede.de/pages/kirche/taufbecken.php] [accessed 12 July 2023] as a baptismal font of 1685 which survived the 1990 fire that destroyed most of the church; the font was recovered and restored; made of sandstone from Obernkirchen, consists of an octagonal basin bearing an inscription ["ANILSABEIN CULMAN VEREHRT JOHANN STEINENBÖMER"] that rest on the head of a figure identified as Matthew, the Evangelist, seated and with an open book in his lap, a moulded octagonal upper base bearing an inscription ["31 DEC-B/1685"], and an octagonal lower base. [NB: the above source identifies An[na] Ilsabein Culman as a pastor's widow, a midwife of Brackwede, dedicated to help the locals in need of her skills; Johann Steinbomer was the donor of the font]. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.98858, 8.51392

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 18.89″ N, 8° 30′ 50.11″ E

UTM: 32U 466622 5759880

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: 1) on the sides of the basin; 2)on a side of the upper base

Inscription Text: 1) "ANILSABE/IN CULMAN ' VEREHRT JOHANN S/TEINENBÖMER" 2) "31 DEC-B/1685"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]