St. Pauli (Lemgo)

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St. Pauli in Lemgo

St. Pauli is an Evangelical Reformed parish church in Lemgo . The church building on Echternstraße was erected in 1851/52 and got its distinctive double tower front in 1954. The Lemgo-Lüerdissen Resurrection Church was added to the parish in 1965/66.

history

The New Evangelical Congregation was founded on March 9, 1849 as part of the revival movement . In the same year, the dean of the Marienstift at that time made the large sheepfold available to the future community to celebrate their services. The endeavor to have its own church led to the construction of a wooden church on Schuhstrasse near the Freie Hof, which was inaugurated on November 1, 1849 by the Bremen pastor Mallet. The congregation then acquired a courtyard near the Ostertor, on which a brick church was built, in which the first service was celebrated on August 1, 1852 (today St. Pauli Church). The New Evangelical Congregation was of the Lutheran creed. After the departure of the first preacher (Emil Stefann) and the appointment of awakened preachers in St. Marien, St. Nicolai and St. Johann, the New Evangelical Congregation was dissolved again in 1858. The members were asked to return to their original communities of St. Marien, St. Nicolai and St. Johann. Only the parishioners located north of Lemgo were allowed to form their own parish on the Eikhof (today: Bergkirchen). From 1858 the Ev.-luth. Parish of St. Marien the vacant church building, while the St. Marien Church was renovated. This was followed by a period of vacancy until the church was used as a service room for the second parish of the Reformed St. John's parish. In 1909 this 2nd district was named "Ev.-ref. St. Pauli-Gemeinde “independent.

On November 28, 1954, the striking double tower front was inaugurated. The architect Fromme designed it. The parish of St. Pauli has been shaped to this day by the fact that a missionary orientation is combined with diaconal and social commitment.

Bells

With the construction of the tower front, two bells made of cast steel were cast in the Bochumer Verein , inaugurated and hung in the west tower. Two bells in the striking tones es 1 and as 1 were also planned for the eastern tower ; the project did not materialize for financial reasons. Every Saturday at 6 p.m. - as in all Protestant inner-city churches in Lemgos - the Sunday is rung in for 10 minutes. On Sunday the big bell rings at 9 a.m., at 9:50 a.m. both bells ring again for the service. Both bells also ring during official acts.

No.
  		Chime
  		Casting year
  		Caster
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		inscription
 
1 c 1 1954 Bochum Association 1690 1810 BE SILENCE TO THE LORD AND WAIT FOR HIM
2 f 1 1954 Bochum Association 1260 780 PRAISE THE LORD EVERY DAY!

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b K. Ewerbeck: Lemgo churches and 700 years of their history . Verlag Glaube und Kultur, Detmold 1956, 54.
  2. ^ Heinrich Clemen: Contributions to the Lippe Church History , Minden 1864.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 43.7 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 18.7 ″  E