Achim

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: forming the capitals of the colonnettes of the base
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 4 October 2022 by JoachimKohler-HB [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achim_-_Altar_der_St._Laurentius-Kirche.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2024]
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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: all around
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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Achim (Kreis Verden/Aller): Ev. Luth. St. Laurentius-Kirche."
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 October 2022 by JoachimKohler-HB [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achim_-_St._Laurentius-Kirche_und_Friedhof.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.-Laurentius-Kirche Innenansicht" -- showing the old font in the chancel, right [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lax366, 2014
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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirchenschiff mit Orgel der St. Laurentius-Kirche in Achim (Kreis Verden/Aller)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 October 2022 by JoachimKohler-HB [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achim_-_Kirchenschiff_%26_Orgel_von_St._Laurentius.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2024]
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view of font - west side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25243ACH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: St.-Laurentius-Kirche in Achim
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Kleine Kirchenstraße 5, 28832 Achim, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Verden, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the L158, about 20 km ESE of Bremen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [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
Font Notes:
Drake (2002) mentions a group sandstone font in Westphalia, "in the area south and slightly east of Bremen", which includes the fonts at Achim, Heiligenfelde, Riede and Verden cathedral, as well. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Laurentius_(Achim)#Taufbecken] [accessed 9 January 2024] reports a late-Romanesque baptismal font similar to the one at Verden cathedral; it had for a time served as water trough outside the sexton's house, then moved to Oyter church and finally returned to Achim in 1939; it received a bronze cover decorated with biblical scenes in 1955 ["Das spätromanische steinerne Taufbecken aus dem 13. Jahrhundert ist das älteste Stück der Innenausstattung. Es ähnelt in seiner Ornamentik und Formgebung dem Taufbecken im Verdener Dom. Auf dem Bronzedeckel des Steines ist die Schöpfungsgeschichte dargestellt. Der Taufstein diente zwischenzeitlich vor dem Küsterhaus als profanes Wasserbecken, wurde dann 1861 an die Oyter Kirche verschenkt, und kehrte erst 1939 wieder nach Achim zurück. 1955 hat das Taufbecken einen Bronzedeckel mit Darstellung der Schöpfungsgeschichte und Taufschale aus Emaille bekommen"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.011609, 9.030263
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 0′ 41.79″ N, 9° 1′ 48.95″ E
UTM: 32U 502030 5873562

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1955
Material: metal, bronze
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002