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angel - cherub

Scene Description: a row of them on the middle section of the stem, hardly discernible now

Image Source: digital photograph by Maik Berger in Volksstimme [https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/halberstadt/wie-ein-taufstein-aus-der-lutherzeit-zuruck-nach-aderstedt-gelangt-ist-3287283] [accessed 18 April 2024]

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design element - motifs - cartouche

Scene Description: one of them bears the date 1597

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dorfkirche in Aderstedt im Huy"

Image Source: digital photograph 6 January 2022 by Goldmull [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Adersted_P1110977.jpg] [accessed 18 April 2024]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "In diesem Zustand hat Maik Berger 2016 den Aderstedter Taufstein in Halberstadt im Kreuzgang der Liebfrauenkirche entdeckt."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25443ADE

Museum and Inventory Number: Stadtmuseum Oschersleben, Hornhäuser Strasse 6, 39387 Oschersleben [for a time]

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche St. Trinitatis in Aderstedt

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Karl-Marx-Straße 69, Aderstedt, 38838 Huy, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt

Directions to Site: Located off (SE) L78-K1314 crossroads, in the municipality and 4-5 km NW of Huy, about 20 km N of Halberstadt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the foyer [cf. FontNotes]

Date: 1579

Century and Period: 16th century(late), Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it.

Church Notes: earlier church dedicated to St Nicholas documented 1402; demolished; present church 1688-1696 built on same site but dedicated to the Holy Trinity; tower collapsed 1715; replaced 1847; renovated 1997 and 2000;

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Baptismal font reported in Schmidt (1891) as being in the church but no longer in use ["Der alte Taufstein von 1579 ist noch vorhanden, aber nicht mehr in Gebrauch"]. The web site Aderstedt, Ältester Ortsteil der Gemeinde Huy [https://www.aderstedt.info/Sehenswuerdigkeiten/] [accessed 18 April 2024] notes that the baptismal font from the earlier church, thought to have been lost, was returned to this church in 2016 and is displayed in the foyer ["Im Jahre 2016 kehrte der verlorengeglaubte Taufstein von 1579 in die Kirche zurück. Dieser stammt noch aus der Vorgängerkirche und wird im Foyer ausgestellt."]. Ramona Adelsberger's article 'Wie ein Taufstein aus der Lutherzeit zurück nach Aderstedt gelangt ist' in the 30.12.1899, 00:00 [sic] edition of Volksstimme [https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/halberstadt/wie-ein-taufstein-aus-der-lutherzeit-zuruck-nach-aderstedt-gelangt-ist-3287283] [accessed 18 April 2024] informs on the long-lost font and its return to the Aderstedt parish church: the font was discovered in 2016 by Maik Berger in the cloister of the Liebfrauenkirche of Halberstadt; Berger found out that the Aderstedt font had been on loan to the Stadtmuseum in Oschersleben in the 1920s but found its way into the cloister of Liebfrauenkirche of Halberstadt, where Berger located it in 2016; it was then returned to its original church in Aderstedt. The baptismal font made of reddish sandstone bearing the date 1579; it consists of an octagonal basin with a pronounced moulding at the upper rim, the sides below decorated with rectangular cartouches, one of which bears the date 1579; the underbowl is octagonal-to-round and end below in a roll moulding; the pedestal base is round and much damaged, but a very eroded band of cherub heads accompanied by some foliage motifs is still discernible above another pronounced moulding; the lower base is round and particularly damaged and eroded so that whatever decoration it had is no longer discernible. No cover present. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 26 January 2024) includes the reference to Schmidt [cf. supra], to the museum temporary location, to the information on the discovery by Maik Berger, etc.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.029927, 10.998067

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 47.74″ N, 10° 59′ 53.04″ E

UTM: 32U 637070 5766251

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (reddish)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the side of the basin

Inscription Text: "1579"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Schmidt, Gustav, Beschreibende Darstellung der älteren Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Sachsen (Band 14): Beschreibende Darstellung der älteren Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Oschersleben, Halle a.d.S.: Otto Hendel, 1891