Evangelical Church Hille
The Evangelical Church in the village of Hille in the community of the same name is the parish church of the Evangelical Church Community of Hille, which belongs to the Minden parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .
The church building dates back to the 16th century and was expanded in the 18th century .
Building history and architecture
The church was first built in 1523 as a three-bay hall church in the Gothic style . Between 1752 and 1759 part of the eastern yoke was removed and a rectangular extension was added to the east, which is wider than the old nave . The west tower was built in 1801.
The two and a half remaining yokes of the nave are equipped with ribbed vaults , which were renewed in the eastern half yoke 1954–1956. The windows in the older part of the church are ogival and partly with tracery , and in the extension they are rounded .
Furnishing
The oldest parts of the furnishings are a twelve-armed bronze chandelier from the Renaissance , a gallery dated 1604 and the baroque altar . During the renovation of the vault in the 1950s, ceiling paintings that date from the second quarter of the 16th century were uncovered.
literature
- Georg Dehio (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, II. Westphalia, Munich 1969, p. 234 f.
- Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 11: The architectural and art monuments of the Minden district. Münster iW 1902, p. 41 f.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 58 ″ N , 8 ° 44 ′ 49 ″ E