Mitling Mark / Mitlingsmark
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: "Historic church in Mitling-Mark, district of Leer, East Frisia, Germany / Historische Kirche in Mitling-Mark, LK Leer, Ostfriesland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frisia Orientalis, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2009 by Frisia Orientalis
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: the baptismal font, covered with a cloth, is partially visible in the bottom-right corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harm Dieder Kirschner, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 6 March 2020 by Harm Dieder Kirschner
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark, 2020
Image Source: screen capture of a 2020 YouTube video 'Ostergruß aus Mitling Mark' by the Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark
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design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark, 2020
Image Source: screen capture of a 2020 YouTube video 'Ostergruß aus Mitling Mark' by the Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark
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design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark, 2020
Image Source: screen capture of a 2020 YouTube video 'Ostergruß aus Mitling Mark' by the Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark
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design element - patterns - fan-frieze - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark, 2020
Image Source: screen capture of a 2020 YouTube video 'Ostergruß aus Mitling Mark' by the Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a screen capture of a 2020 YouTube video 'Ostergruß aus Mitling Mark' by the Ev.- reformierte Kirche Mitling Mark
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 26112YDG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (?), Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, 5. Sögel, Type IV
Cognate Fonts: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font yo our attention and for his help documenting it
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-reformierte Mitling-Marker Kirche
Church Wikidata: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitling-Marker_Kirche
Church Notes: 13th-14thC church; may have been originally a monastery church
Church Address: Warftweg 3, 26810 Westoverledingen, Germany
Site Location: Leer, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 70, in the municipality and 6-7 km WSW of Westoverledingen, on the E banks of the Ems river
Town/City Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitling-Mark
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed in Drake (2002) as a Bentheim font, 5. Sögel, Type IV. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitling-Marker_Kirche] [accessed 11 February 2026] reports a 12th-century baptismal font made of Bentheim sandstone featuring a double frieze of tendrils on the basi sides; the base has the usual four lions: "Der Taufstein aus Bentheimer Sandstein aus dem 12. Jahrhundert weist einen doppelten Rankenfries auf und ruht auf vier Löwen."
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 391516 5888216
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.1323, 7.37848
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 7′ 56.28″ N, 7° 22′ 42.53″ 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. 178