Evangelical Church (Oetinghausen)
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The Evangelical Church Oetinghausen belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Hiddenhausen - Oetinghausen in the Herford district . It belongs to the Herford parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .
history
Since the Middle Ages, the farmers in Oetinghausen belonged to the parish of Hiddenhausen and the local believers attended church services in the Hiddenhausen parish church of St. Gangolf . Lutheran sermons began there in the course of the Reformation around 1530. The ecclesiastical conditions did not change until 1902 when another pastor's office was set up for Oetinghausen. After the construction of a new elementary school in Oetinghausen, church services could be celebrated from 1908 in the so-called school chapel, which had a roof turret with a bell. A Protestant cemetery was consecrated in 1911.
In 1930 the presbytery began planning the construction of its own church in Oetinghausen, for which a building site commission was initially set up, but it was not until 1935 that a building commission was set up. Only on July 25, 1937, after all resistance was overcome, the foundation stone could be laid, whereby a certificate, a Bible, the Evangelical Lutheran confessions as well as issues of the Sunday paper and a daily newspaper were walled up in a tin box. The total cost of building the church came to 66,091 Reichsmarks. On October 30, 1938, the parish fair could take place, for which the so-called "Trumpet General" Johannes Kuhlo traveled with his ensemble.
In 1942, the new bronze bell consisting of three bells had to be assigned to the war armor. Since the sound holes were too small for a distance, Belgian forced laborers had to laboriously break the bells in the tower room for days. Then the old "Bimmelglocke" from the school building in the tower basement did its job. It came to Sumatra / Indonesia as a present after a new purchase of steel bells in 1953.
Web links
literature
- Karsch, Manfred: The Ev.-luth. Church in Oetinghausen 1938-1988. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the parish fair , Oetinghausen 1988.
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 39.9 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 15.5 ″ E