Evangelical Church Wersen
The Protestant parish church is a listed church building in Wersen , a district of the Lotte community in the Steinfurt district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
The Wersen farm and the chapel were sold by Count Heinrich von Tecklenburg to the Bishop of Osnabrück in 1150 . The community was founded in the 12th century, and it was first mentioned in a document in 1271 as a parish church . The room is covered with an ogival wooden barrel.
The building is a rectangular hall with two bays . The choir is square, in the 13th century transitional style. The west tower was built in 1886, the south aisle added in 1906. The church is equipped with groin vaults . The original arched windows were partially changed. The simple round arched step portal is on the north side. The choir door is marked 1724. Two side cheeks of a choir stool are decorated with tendrils and coats of arms. The organ parapet is from the 17th century. A coat of arms adorned epitaph from 1718 is for Johann Adolf von Tecklenburg.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 591 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 51.7 ″ N , 7 ° 56 ′ 30.2 ″ E