Evangelical Church Mennighüffen
The Evangelical Church in Mennighüffen is the house of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Löhne - Mennighüffen ( Herford district ).
history
The first documentary mention of Mennighüffen can be found in a document from Bishop Egilbert von Minden , when he handed over an estate in Mennighüffen to St. Martini Abbey in Minden in 1055 . In 1347 a church in Mennighüffen with the residence of a pastor was first mentioned. In 1748 all buildings around the church square were destroyed by fire.
A makeshift new building that followed had to be demolished in 1820 and replaced by the building that can still be found in the core of the Mennighüffen church today. The old medieval church tower was preserved in each of these construction measures. This finally turned out to be dilapidated in 1928 and half of it was demolished and transformed into a new choir room as part of the interior renovation of the church in 1930/31. A new tower was built in place of the old choir on the east side of the church. The church has lost its traditional orientation of a Christian sacred building to the east, since the altar has been in the west since then.
From 1931 to 1949 Ernst Wilm , who later became President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, was pastor in Mennighüffen. In 1941 the still existing altarpiece was placed under him. Pastor Wilm was arrested as a member of the Confessing Church in 1942 and was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp until 1945. There he designed the pulpit panels for his church. The drafts could be smuggled out of the warehouse.
The church from the northwest
The altar
literature
- Albert Ludorff : The buildings and art monuments of the Herford district. Munster 1908.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 5.2 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 31.5" E