Evangelical Church Bergkirchen (Bad Oeynhausen)
The Evangelical Church of St. Nikolaus zu Bergkirchen belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Bad Oeynhausen- Bergkirchen ( Minden-Lübbecke district ). To the east of the church is the Wittekindsquelle , one of the three “Wittekinds springs”, each of which claims to have been the location of the “Wittekind spring wonder”.
history
The historian Heinrich von Herford reports that Pope Leo III. consecrated the church in 799. Even Werner Rolevinck said 1,474 of them, in the Nicholas Church is located a source of clear water and a small bell donated by Leo.
Today's hall building contains Romanesque masonry as the oldest component in its south wall . In 1967, on the occasion of heating work, an archaeological study of the building history took place, during which a predecessor of the Romanesque church could be proven. The Romanesque building itself was dated to 1200. Its southern wall is preserved in full length and in full. Two western Romanesque arched windows are still there, but were later extended downwards.
In the 14th century, a Gothic choir was added in place of the Romanesque apse . In the late Gothic period, massive buttresses were placed on the north and south sides of the nave to counter the thrust of the vault. In 1752 the entire north wall of the church was pushed out by three meters, a straight east wall was built and a flat ceiling was installed. In the middle of the 19th century the west wall was renewed and the Romanesque tower was replaced by a new building.
Parish
The Bergkirchen parish includes the places Wulferdingsen and Bergkirchen, but including the Bergkirchen areas that are administratively part of Volmerdingsen. As the only parish in the area of the city of Bad Oeynhausen, it belongs to the parish of Minden .
With the inauguration of the church in Oberlübbe in 1913, the former second parish of the Bergkirchen parish became more independent, but the districts of Rothenuffeln , Haddenhausen , Oberlübbe and Unterlübbe of today's Hille parish belonged to the Bergkirchen parish until 1972, before they were officially parish. In 1972 the Bergkirchen parish was divided into two separate parishes. The former parishes II. And III. have since formed the Ev. - Luth. Parish Oberlübbe - Rothenuffeln. However, the connection of the parish Rothenuffeln - Haddenhausen to the parish in Bergkirchen remained closer in the perception of the parishioners of the 2nd parish than that between the two parishes of the newly formed parish. Since then, the Bergkirchen parish has had its current territorial scope. Most of the residents of Wulferdingsen (including Bergkirchen) belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Bergkirchen. The YMCA Bergkirchen is organized as part of the church community . a. Has been involved in an amateur theater group for several years.
The parish maintains a parish hall in Bergkirchen .
The community has partnerships with Mwangoi in Tanzania and Ribnita in Moldova .
Wittekindsquelle
Southwest of the church tower is the so-called Wittekindsquelle, presumed location of a medieval Saxon spring sanctuary and legendary location of the spring miracle, which the tradition ascribes to the medieval Saxon Duke Widukind .
The Bergkirchener Bach that springs from it flows over the Wulferdingser Bach ( Kaarbach ) to the lower Werre .
Web links
literature
- Uwe Lobbedey: The Romanesque parish church in Bergkirchen. In: Westfalen 50 (1972), pp. 70-73.
- Albert Ludorff : The buildings and art monuments of the Minden district. Munster 1902.
- Wernerus Rolevinck : De laude antiquae saxoniae nunc westphaliae dictae. 1474, reprint Münster 1953.
- Martin Vahle: Wittekindsland, my home country. Ravensberger Heimatbüchlein, Herford 1956. (on the Widukind sagas)
Coordinates: 52 ° 16'5.1 " N , 8 ° 46'27.1" E