Fedderwarden

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Old Testament - Story of Moses - Moses on Mount Sinai with the tables of the law (Exodus 24:9-18, 31:18)

Scene Description: the statue supports the basin on its head

Image Source: digital photograph in the Ludwig-Münstermann-Gesellschaft e.V. [https://www.ludwig-muenstermann.de/werke/kirchen/fedderwarden] [accessed 20 July 2023]

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on some of the panels of the basin

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human figure - head

Scene Description: on some of the panels of the basin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische St.-Stephanus-Kirche zu Fedderwarden, Wilhelmshaven, Deutschland"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 February 2008 by Ruedi64 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.Stephanus-Kirche-Fedderwarden.JPG] [accessed 20 July 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph Rr. Kalus Lemke-Praetznick [https://www.wilhelmshaven-touristik.de/erleben/urban/sehenswuerdigkeiten/details-poi/st-stephanus-kirche] [accessed 20 July 2023]

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover - detail

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24796FED

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Dorfkirche St. Stephanus

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: Kirchweg, Fedderwarden, 26388 Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Wilhelmshaven, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off (N) Bd29, 5-6 km NW of Wilhelmshaven city centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side

Date: 1648

Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Baroque

Cognate Fonts: the font at Bockhorn [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: church documented 1420 but probably built late-13thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in the Ludwig-Münstermann-Gesellschaft e.V. [https://www.ludwig-muenstermann.de/werke/kirchen/fedderwarden] [accessed 20 July 2023] as an hexagonal font made of oak in 1648 and attributed to Onno Dierksen, somewhat similar to the font at Bockhorn; painted over in 1750; it was donated by count Anton Günther von Oldenburg; the original painting recovered in 2007 ["Taufbecken mit Deckel. 1648. Stifter: Graf Anton Günther von Oldenburg (1583 – 1667). Material: Eichenholz. Zustand: Die ursprüngliche Fassung war offenbar differenziert farbig gefasst, 1750 wurde sie braun überstrichen; 2007 wurde die Übermalung abgenommen und die die Erstfassung regeneriert. Zuschreibung an Onno Dierksen. Das sechseckige halbkugelige Becken wird von einer hockende Figur des Moses mit den Gesetzestafeln getragen. Auf dem gewölbten Deckel erhebt sich ein mit Ornament-Spangen gezierter doppelstöckiger hoher Schaft, der unten die Skulpturen-Gruppe der Taufe Jesu durch Johannes den Täufer zeigt und zuoberst die fliegende Taube des Hl. Geistes über der goldenen Weltkugel. Auf den reliefierten Segmenten von Kuppa und Deckel sind Cherubköpfe, Tugenden, Stifterwappen und Datierung dargestellt. Die Taufe in Fedderwarden steht stilistisch in enger Verbindung zum Taufbecken in Bockhorn, dessen Deckel verloren ist."] The wooden (oak) font consists of an hexagonal basin with a rounded underbowl; the sides are covered in tracery, symbols and has some putto or angel heads in some of the frames; the base is a statue of a seated Moses holding the tablets of the Law, the basin rests on hist head; hexagonal moulded lower base. The wooden cover is a complex affair: the lower section is almost a mirror image of the font basin and has human busts or enblems carved on the curved sides; the next section up is a set of narrow scroll ribs around a hexagonal vertical pivot, while the next section up is similar but with wider curging ribs; the finial has a ball with a dove sitting atop; the chain from the pulley hooks onto the dove. Noted and illustrated in the Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Fedderwarden web site [http://www.ewetel.net/~ev.luth.kirchengem.fedderwarden/fotoinne.htm#bildreihe1] [accessed 20 July 2023]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.563196, 8.040667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 33′ 47.51″ N, 8° 2′ 26.4″ E

UTM: 32U 436461 5935352

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, oak

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1648

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; pulley

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]