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design element - motifs - moulding - round

Scene Description: with corner stops

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Image Source: digital photograph 2017 by Rita Stumper [https://www.ritas-fotowelt.de/kirchenfotografie/st-andreas-bremen-gröpelingen/] [accessed 27 April 2024]

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rita Stumper, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 2017 by Rita Stumper [https://www.ritas-fotowelt.de/kirchenfotografie/st-andreas-bremen-gröpelingen/] [accessed 27 April 2024]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Andreas Kirche in Bremen, Danziger Straße 20."

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Image Source: digital photograph 18 March 2012 by XenonX3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Andreas_Kirche_in_Bremen,_Danziger_Straße_20.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: view of the medieval Nikolaikirche [ca. 1920?] -- it was destroyed in aerial bombings in 1944

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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1944 [ca. 1920?] B&W photograph in the Archiv der Geschichtswerkstatt Gröpelingen e.V. [https://www.ortsamtwest.bremen.de/fastmedia/12/Nikolai-Kirche.bmp] [accessed 27 April 2024]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rita Stumper, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 2017 by Rita Stumper [https://www.ritas-fotowelt.de/kirchenfotografie/st-andreas-bremen-gröpelingen/] [accessed 27 April 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25466GRO
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Andreaskirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: [BB: address & coordinates for Andreaskirche] Danziger Straße 20.Bremen-West, 28237 Bremen, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Bremen, Bremen
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A27, on the N bank of the Weser river, 5 km NW of Bremen city centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, SE area of the nave
Date: n.d.
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: Nikolaikirche first mentioned 1331; destroyed 1944; Andreaskirche built 1949
The entry for this church in ACK in Bremen [https://ack-bremen.de/ein-erzbischof-in-groepelingen-besuch-aus-der-syrisch-orthodoxen-kirche/] [accessed 27 April 2024] mentions the old font from Nikolaikirche of Gröpelingen, destroyed in 1944, that was moved to the newly built Andreaskirche ["Der mit einem modernen Kupferdeckel versehene Taufstein stammt aus der im Krieg zerstörten Gröpelinger Dorfkirche"]. Modern font cover made of copper; dome with Latin cross finial and inscription.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.116222, 8.755444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 6′ 58.4″ N, 8° 45′ 19.6″ E
UTM: 32U 483632 5885227

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]