Furstenau / Fürstenau / Corvey?

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - beaded-tape - palmette

Scene Description: a pattern repeated all around the basinall around

Image Source: digital photograph by Klaus Wupper / KDW Digital Fotografie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 9 March 2025]

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a different motif in each of the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph by Klaus Wupper / KDW Digital Fotografie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 9 March 2025]

design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4

Image Source: digital photograph by Klaus Wupper / KDW Digital Fotografie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 9 March 2025]

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by Klaus Wupper / KDW Digital Fotografie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 9 March 2025]

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Kirche St. Anna in Höxter-Fürstenau"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 April 2023 by Tsungam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Höxter_-_2023-04-07_-_St_Anna_Fürstenau_(DSC_1087).jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Kirche St. Anna in Höxter-Fürstenau"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 April 2023 by Tsungam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Höxter_-_2023-04-07_-_St_Anna_Fürstenau_(DSC_1072).jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Kirche St. Anna in Höxter-Fürstenau"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 April 2023 by Tsungam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Höxter_-_2023-04-07_-_St_Anna_Fürstenau_(DSC_1075-Pano).jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: the medieval font now in a museum

Image Source: digital photograph by Klaus Wupper / KDW Digital Fotografie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 9 March 2025]

view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Fürstenau [https://www.fuerstenau.eu/index.php/institutionen/kirchlich] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Kirche St. Anna in Höxter-Fürstenau" -- Is this a modern version of the medieval font in the Diocesan Museum?

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 April 2023 by Tsungam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Höxter_-_2023-04-07_-_St_Anna_Fürstenau_(DSC_1075-Pano).jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24874FUR

Museum and Inventory Number: Diocesan Museum in Paderborn

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Anna zu Fürstenau

Church Patron Saints: St. Anne

Church Location: Schreweweg 2, 37671 Höxter, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Höxter, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located E of the Bd239, in the municipality and 6-7 km NW of Höxter, 45-50 km ENE of Paderborn

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Paderborn

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, E end, by the right [S] pillar of the chancel arch [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century (?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Höxter-Gruppe

Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Godelheim and Holzhausen

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it. We are laso grateful to Klaus Wupper, of WDF - Wupper Digitale Fotografie, Wippen (Germany) for his photograph of the medieval font

Church Notes: 13thC(?) church replaced by present church built 1519-1603

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Die St. Anna Pfarrkirche zu Fürstenau [https://www.fuerstenau.eu/index.php/institutionen/kirchlich] [accessed 9 August 2023] as a baptismal font dating from the second half of the 13th century, of a type that is common in the local area and can be assigned to the so-called "Höxter group", with cognate fonts at Godelheim or Holzhausen. The Fürstenau baptismal font is shown or mentioned in the inventory of Ludorff and in Dehio-Westphalia, and it is thought to have been belonged to the furnishings of the Romanesque abbey church at Corvey, handed over to Fürstenau as part of the baroque renovation of the abbey church. The basin is decorated with a frieze of leaves and arches on the sides; the base has leaves [or spurs?] at the corners. The oak cover was added to the baptismal font in 1938 and cost 100 RM at the time ["Der Taufstein ist das mit Abstand älteste und wertvollste Ausstattungsstück der Kirche. Er stammt aus der 2. Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts. Er ist ein Originalstück. Es handelt sich um einen in der hiesigen Gegend häufigen Typus, der der sog. „Höxter-Gruppe“ zuzuordnen ist. Fast ähnliche Stücke finden sich z. B. in Godelheim oder Holzhausen. Der Fürstenauer Taufstein ist im Inventar von Ludorff und im Dehio-Westfalen abgebildet bzw. erwähnt. Möglicherweise befand sich der Taufstein ursprünglich in Corvey und ist im Rahmen der Barockisierung der Abteikirche nach Fürstenau abgegeben worden. Der Stein ist in Pokalform gehauen und mit Blatt- und Bogenfries am oberen Rande versehen. Der Fuß ist in attischer Basis gestaltet und mit Eckblättern verziert. Eine derart reiche Verzierung ist ungewöhnlich und unterstreicht die Annahme, dass der Taufstein ursprünglich zur Ausstattung der romanischen Abteikirche zu Corvey gehörte. Er wird in der Denkmalliste der Stadt Höxter geführt. Der in Eichenholz ausgeführte Deckel ist erst 1938 dem Taufstein beigefügt worden und kostete seinerzeit 100 RM.."] -- NB: we have a problem with this font: in the sources above and the available photograph in Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Fürstenau [https://www.fuerstenau.eu/index.php/institutionen/kirchlich] [accessed 9 August 2023], the font looks new which is obviously a problem. A source in Germany, Klaus Wuppen, sent us his own digital photograph of the font in the Pfarrkirche St. Anna zu Fürstenau [cf. ImagesArea], one of similar design but the real medieval thing. Is the Covey font now in this church a modern version? The photograph kidly supplied by Klaus Wuppen is in the Diocesan Museum in Paderborn

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.829444, 9.320556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 46″ N, 9° 19′ 14″ E

UTM: 32U 522090 5742117

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1938

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: the cover is on the font now in the church [cf. FontNotes]