Fuhlen
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - holding identifying symbol - 12
Scene Description: dressed in 16thC attires
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen [https://www.kirche-fuhlen.de/kirche-kapelle/kirche-zu-fuhlen/der-taufstein] [accessed 15 September 2024]
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angel - cherub - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen [https://www.kirche-fuhlen.de/kirche-kapelle/kirche-zu-fuhlen/der-taufstein] [accessed 15 September 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - rib - scrolled rib - 4
Scene Description: separating the groups of Apostles on the basin sides
design element - patterns - crenellated
human figure - head - grotesque - 4
Scene Description: one at each corner of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen [https://www.kirche-fuhlen.de/kirche-kapelle/kirche-zu-fuhlen/der-taufstein] [accessed 15 September 2024]
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human figure - head or mask - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen [https://www.kirche-fuhlen.de/kirche-kapelle/kirche-zu-fuhlen/der-taufstein] [accessed 15 September 2024]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche zu Fuhlen im Herbst"
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Image Source: digital photograph 5 October 2010 by Fuhlen2010 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuhlen,Kirche.JPG] [accessed 15 September 2024]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen [https://www.kirche-fuhlen.de/kirche-kapelle/kirche-zu-fuhlen/der-taufstein] [accessed 15 September 2024]
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view of font
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen [https://www.kirche-fuhlen.de/kirche-kapelle/kirche-zu-fuhlen/der-taufstein] [accessed 15 September 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25707FUH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische, denkmalgeschützte Johannes-der-Täufer-Kirche in Fuhlen
Church Patron Saints: St. John The Baptist
Church Location: Kirchspielweg 7, Fuhlen, 31840 Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5152 2273
Country Name: Germany
Location: Hameln-Pyrmont, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road L434, on the S bank of the Weser, in the municipality and 3-4 km S of Hessisch Oldendorf, about half-way between Bielefeld (WSW) and Hannover (ENE)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, in front of the altar
Date: ca. 1586
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Late Gothic
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: church here documented 1146 as belonging to Kloster Abdinghof near Paderborn
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Kirchengemeindelexikon [https://kirchengemeindelexikon.de/einzelgemeinde/fuhlen/] [accessed 15 September 2024] reports a Romanesque baptismal font in it ["ein romanischer Taufstein"]. Noted and illustrated in the Kirchengemeinde Fuhlen [https://www.kirche-fuhlen.de/kirche-kapelle/kirche-zu-fuhlen/der-taufstein] [accessed 15 September 2024] as a font from the late-16th century, ca. 1586, and mentions the presence of the twelve Apsostles, the symbols of the four Evangelists, angel heads, etc., on it: "Der 1,06 m hohe Taufstein stammt aus dem Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1586), ist im Achteck angelegt, mit Nischenwerk, Engelsköpfchen und Masken geschmückte Sakralraumskulptur, zeigt an den Seitenflächen des von den vier Evangelistensymbolen getragenen Beckens die Reihe der 12 Apostel und wurde aus Sandstein gefertigt."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.152223, 9.240105
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 8″ N, 9° 14′ 24.38″ E
UTM: 32U 516427 5777996
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]