Nienburg No. 1

The Museum notes for this font inform: "Designation and origin: Middle Weser region, probably village church. In the entry book VII, page 49, no. 81, the provenance is noted as ‘Nienburg - Weser, Garten an der Bismarckstr.’ (means: found in a garden in the Bismarckstreet). Its original location is
not known [...] Until it was transferred to the collection of the Nienburg Museum, the baptismal font stood in a garden in Bismarckstraße in Nienburg as a second, or probably even third, location. Date: Probably 12th-13th century. Stone; sandstone. Octagonal baptismal font with a chalice-shaped dome. Four flat escutcheons opposite each other, creating the octagonal shape. The escutcheons feature floral elements, which also continue as a frieze outside the escutcheons. Without a base or plinth. The upper edge of the font is ‘wavy’. The wavy edge is probably the result of many years of
misuse as a whetstone. This fact points to a village church as the original location. There is no opening for draining the basin. The font is not set.
The baptismal font is mounted on a new plinth made of bricks. Two break-outs at the upper edge were completed with restoration mortar ‘RS-Steinmasse’ from Schmalstieg GmbH, Schulze-Delitzsch-Straße 19, D-30938 Burgwedel. Bibiliography: Adamek, Marco, Erfassung der Sandsteinobjekte im Lapidarium, S. 10 (Inventar Museum Nienburg), Nienburg, 2000. Korff, Bettina, Dokumentation der historischen Recherche zu den Sandsteinobjekten des Lapidariums im Museum Nienburg, Nienburg, 2002."