Wallenbruck No. 2 / Wallenbrück / Wollenbruügge

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angel - cherub - head - 6

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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: around the lower end

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design element - motifs - garland

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human figure - kneeling

Scene Description: and holding up the basin

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inscription

Scene Description: "1688"

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Evang.-luth. St. Marienkirche zu Spenge-Wallenbrück, Kreis Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland."

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Spenge, Kreis Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen." -- showing the baptismal font and cover dwarfed by the pulpit

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25467WAL
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-luterische Pfarrkirche St. Marien in Wallenbrück
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Neuenkirchener Str. 254, Wallenbrück, 32139 Spenge, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Herford, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located S of the Bd30, in the municipality and 5 km WNW of Spenge, about 25 km NNW of Bielefeld
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1688
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Baroque
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: original church ca. 1060; tower added 1060/1080; church modified ca. 1500; expanded late-19thC
Baptismal font described and illustrated in Dietrich Korthals' Die Marienkirche zu Wallenbrück [https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/5917441/m-arienkirche-wallenbruck-evangelische-kirchengemeinde-spenge] [accessed 27 April 2024]. The font is dated 1688 by an inscription on the basin side; it consists of a hexagonal basin decorated with cherub heads linked by a garland, being held up by a figure [a child?] kneeling on a hexagonal lower base; the whole brightly painted. Low cover with moulded sides and a cup-like finial. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 21 February 2024) includes an article by Karin Wessler in the NW Kreis Herford edition of 2 January 2012 which informs that the 1688 font replaced and earlier one of the 11th century [cf. BSI entry for Wallenbrück No. 1 for details on that font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.149444, 8.443889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 58″ N, 8° 26′ 38″ E
UTM: 32U 461950 5777806

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the basin underbowl side
Inscription Text: "1688"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: moulded sides with cup(?) finial