Ledde Evangelical Church

Protestant church

The Protestant parish church is a listed church building in Ledde , a district of Tecklenburg in the Steinfurt district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The building is a two-bay long house with ridge vaults between round arched belts and shield arches. The church was built in the 13th century from sandstone blocks. The arched windows in the nave were subsequently extended. The choir , consecrated in 1501, with a 5/8 ending was added later. The west tower is provided with a late Gothic pointed helmet. On the north side of the nave is a round arched, Romanesque column portal in a box-like frame. In the nave, groin vaults rest on pillars with strong shield and belt arches, the ribbed vault in the choir rests on consoles.

Under Hermann Höhn , who was pastor of the Evangelical Parish of Ledde from 1958 to 1978, the village church was extensively renovated in the 1960s. Historical paintings in the choir were exposed again. The church also received new stalls and in 1969 a new organ at the end of the work . In addition, Höhn founded the Ledde Trombone Choir in 1959, which regularly enriches not only the church services. Höhn also achieved that a new, spacious parish hall was built in 1962.

Church as a bat quarter and FFH area

The attic of the church was designated as an FFH area church in Ledde in 2004 with a size of 0.03  hectares . In the attic of the church there is a nursery room for the great mouse- eared bat ( Myotis myotis ).

literature

• Ursula Quednau (edit.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Web links

Commons : Ledde village church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ledde village church | Evangelical parish of Tecklenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 278 .
2. ↑ Hans-Martin Lagemann: 100th birthday of Pastor Hermann Höhn on December 27, 2012 . In: Community letter of the Evangelical Church Community Tecklenburg . Issue 16, autumn / winter 2012/13, p. 14
3. ^ History of the Ledde Trombone Choir on its website; Retrieved December 1, 2012
4. ↑ 3712-303 Church in Ledde (Steinfurt district). Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved November 28, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 22 "  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 53"  E