Grosswolde / Grootwoel / Großwolde
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: "Historic church in Großwolde, district of Leer, East Frisia, Germany / Hist. Kirche in Großwolde, LK Leer, Ostfriesland"
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 May 2009 by Frisia Orientalis
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animal - fabulous animal or monster
Scene Description: dragon-like with a fish tail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Großwolde, 2026
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph https://grosswolde.reformiert.de/unsere-kirche.html
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design element - motifs - vine - inhabited - animals, foliage, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Großwolde, 2026
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph https://grosswolde.reformiert.de/unsere-kirche.html
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: "Mittelalterlicher Taufstein in der Kirche von Großwolde (13. Jh.). Hören Sie die reizvolle Beschreibung des Taufsteinreliefs:"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Papenburg, 2026
Image Source: digital image in Hören und Sehen, Heimatverein Papenburg https://altes-papenburg.de/fotoarchiv-2/
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Großwolde, 2026
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph https://grosswolde.reformiert.de/unsere-kirche.html
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: four lions set at 90-degree angles of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchengemeinde Großwolde, 2026
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph https://grosswolde.reformiert.de/unsere-kirche.html
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 26110GYT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font (variant)
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-reformierte Großwolder Kirche
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Wikidata: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großwolder_Kirche
Church Notes: original church demolished and re-built on new location in the 13th-14thC
Church Address: Kirchstraße, 26810 Westoverledingen, Germany
Site Location: Leer, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B70-K49 crossroads, in the municipality of Westoverledingen, about 13 km S of Leer
Town/City Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großwolde
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made listed in Drake (2002) as a variant of the Bentheim sandstone fonts. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großwolder_Kirche] [accessed 10 February 2026] reports a baptismal font in this church; it is made of Bentheim sandstone and dating from the early 13th century, obviously from the previous building; it consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with a frieze of tendrils and animal figures, and rests on a four-lion base: "Der Taufstein aus Bentheimer Sandstein aus dem frühen 13. Jahrhundert stammt offensichtlich aus dem Vorgängerbau. Das zylindrische Becken ist mit einem Fries aus Ranken und Tiergestalten versehen und ruht auf vier Löwenfüßen."
A communication to BSi from Pol Herman, who brought the font to our attention (e-mail of 10 February 2026), noted: "Very untypical Bentheimer-type font."
A communication to BSi from Pol Herman, who brought the font to our attention (e-mail of 10 February 2026), noted: "Very untypical Bentheimer-type font."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 395941 5889348
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.143353, 7.444218
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 8′ 36.07″ N, 7° 26′ 39.19″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 78, 178