Evangelical Church Haustenbeck

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Church ruins 2015
The church in 1930

The Evangelical Church of Haustenbeck was a church in the village of Haustenbeck, today Oesterholz-Haustenbeck , which existed from 1685 to 1939 . Due to the expansion of the Senne military training area , the village fell into desolation . The church ruin is now a monument of the community Schlangen .

history

The Haustenbeck settlement was founded in 1659 by Hermann Adolf Graf and Edler Herr zu Lippe . He expected better border security to the duchy of Paderborn , customs and other income as well as the defense of the property. He promised the settlers an exemption from tax burdens for six years. Nevertheless, the barren soil of the Senne initially only attracted a few new residents.

Until 1671 Haustenbeck was part of the Schlangen parish and was then given its own pastorate. The first pastor was Joachim Winand from Heiligenkirchen , who at the beginning had to give his sermons in the tavern of the Haustenbeck pitcher. The construction of a half-timbered church also began in 1671, but further construction was discontinued due to lack of funds. Over the years, the unfinished church fell into disrepair. It was not until the years 1680 to 1682 that the Haustenbeck family managed to build a simple church according to the plans of the village master carpenter. The furnishings came from donations from passing merchants. In their honor, colored donor discs were made that adorned the windows of the church. Many of them were lost during a renovation in 1881, eight panes are now in the Lippe State Museum . The church was consecrated on September 27, 1685. In 1692 it also received a bell, it came from Master Bricon from Steinheim - it was probably the son of Claudius Bricon , who had cast the bronze bell of the church in snakes in 1656 .

The church underwent a major renovation in 1755. The half-timbered walls, with the exception of the north wall, were replaced with limestone walls by master stone mason Hans Christoph Rombeger from Detmold. The north wall was not replaced until 1885. Ernst Klassmeier from Kirchheide built an organ with nine registers for the Haustenbeck church in 1906. The porches with triangular gables in front of the two portals date from 1906.

In 1937, the news reached Haustenbeck that the village had to be abandoned because of the upcoming expansion of the Senne military training area . The church inventory was sold as far as possible. The pulpit has been in the Donop Evangelical Church since 1965 , the Holy Communion was brought to Vossheide , Pastor Winand's tombstone and two bells were given to the Evangelical Reformed Church of Heiligenkirchen . The last service took place on November 26, 1939, the Sunday of the Dead. The pastor from 1929 to 1939 was Hans Held, who died in Russia in February 1944.

In pictures from the 1950s, the church building has a damaged but still complete roof with a tower. Nowadays only the walls are standing, because of the danger of collapse it is forbidden to enter. The ruin has been a listed building since January 25, 1993.

Architecture and equipment

Donor window from 1683, exhibited in the Lippe State Museum

The building was a simple baroque rectangular building. The wooden bell tower, clad with boards, stood on the west side of the pan-roofed roof, the east side of which had a crooked hip. On both sides of the eaves there were four window axes and in the middle a portal with the above-mentioned, later added porch.

Otto Gaul visited and described the church in 1935 for the never published volume on the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia , Detmold district. He names the items of equipment:

  • Altar from 1683 with the inscription "JOST DE SCHMHETH VON BREMEN ADORDS THIS ALTAR IN THE GLORY OF GOD 1683"
  • wooden pulpit with octagonal basket from the church in Heiden , mid 17th century
  • Priechen , mid-18th century
  • Stalls, 1807
  • Stained glass window
  • gilded communion chalice, late 17th century
  • Supper jug, pewter, around 1800
  • Baptismal bowl, pewter, early 18th century, with Lippian rose and crown, on the edge the inscription “Elisabeth Wechters dis revered. I baptize you with water, but it is Christ who with St. spirit baptizes. Joh. On the 1st "

More recent findings date the pulpit to the second half of the 16th century, and an inscription in the communion jug indicates the year it was built in 1691.

literature

  • Heinrich Stiewe: The church in Haustenbeck: A reformed church building of the 17th century . In: History of the villages Schlangen, Kohlstädt, Oesterholz and Haustenbeck . tape 1 . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89534-793-1 , p. 259-264 .

Web links

Commons : Kirche Haustenbeck  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildegard Mehrmann, Ernst Mehrmann: Haustenbeck, history and stories . In: Haustenbeck. 1659-1939-1989 . Schlangen 1989, p. 8-9 .
  2. ↑ Hans Held: Haustenbeck - dissolution and farewell . Oesterholz-Haustenbeck 1975, p. 12, 109, 110 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 10.7 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 25.4"  E