Dedesdorf / Deesdorp

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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design element - motifs - vine

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dedesdorf-Eidewarden ist eine 2016 zusammengeschlossene Ortschaft in der Einheitsgemeinde Loxstedt im niedersächsischen Landkreis Cuxhaven."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ClausNe, 2022

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2022 by ClausNe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Dedesdorf.jpg] [accessed 25 May 2024]

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view of font and cover - south side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Weitere Ausstattung: kelchförmiger Taufstein (1. Hälfte 14. Jahrhundert)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde Dedesdorf, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde Dedesdorf [https://www.kirche-dedesdorf.de/index.php/fotos.html] [accessed 25 May 2024]

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view of font and cover - south side

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font in context - east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick zur Orgelempore, Foto aus dem Jahre 1957"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde Dedesdorf, 2012

Image Source: digital image of a 1957 B&W photograph reproduced in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde Dedesdorf [https://www.kirche-dedesdorf.de/index.php/fotos.html] [accessed 25 May 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25520DED
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Dorfkirche St. Laurentius in Dedesdorf
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Fährstraße 12, Dedesdorf, 27612 Loxstedt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4740 1211
Country Name: Germany
Location: Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road L121, in the municipality of Loxstedt, on the E bank of the Weser river, about 15 km SW of Bremerhaven
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only], Medieval [composite font?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: late-13thC church; much modified in the 19thC
The German Wikipedia entry for this church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Laurentius_(Dedesdorf)] [accessed 25 May 2024] mentions a chalice-shaped baptismal font of the early-14th century; roughly hemispherical absin decorated with a vine, raised on a pedestal base ["Taufstein in Kelchform aus der erster Hälfte 14. Jh., gerundete Kuppa mit Rankenfries, Fuß mit Nodus und polygonalem Schaft"]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 22 May 2024) notes: "My opinion is that the round basin (still) has Romanesque features. The decoration reminds me of some of the Romanesque Bentheimer baptismal fonts. Maybe it is a late example of these fonts? The octagonal foot is gothic, and seems later. Probably this is a composite font?"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.444593, 8.501488
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 26′ 40.54″ N, 8° 30′ 5.36″ E
UTM: 32U 466889 5921845

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round low-dome metal cover with finial; modern