Matthäuskirche (Gütersloh)

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Matthew Church

Basic data
Denomination evangelical
place Gutersloh , Germany
Regional church Evangelical Church of Westphalia
Patronage Matthew
Building history
architect Werner Honigmund
Building description
inauguration March 27, 1987
Coordinates 51 ° 53 '31.4 "  N , 8 ° 24' 17"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '31.4 "  N , 8 ° 24' 17"  E
Template: Infobox church building / maintenance / function and title is missing Evangelical Church of Westphalia

The Matthäuskirche in the Gütersloh district of Sundern is a church built in 1986/87 as an octagon . It is the spiritual center for 5,800 parishioners from the districts of Sundern, Kattenstroth and Spexard . When the rear wall to the adjoining room is open, the church can hold 400 people.

In 1955 a parish hall was built in Sundern, which was used not only as a meeting room but also as a place of worship. At the end of the 1960s, as the number of parishioners grew, so did the desire for their own church building. A church building association was founded, chaired by the publisher Sigbert Mohn . Despite some donations, the planned project could not be realized.

The plans were not revived until two decades later. The parish of Sundern / Spexard had 4,000 members at that time. The architect and artist Fritz Karl Wachtmann from the Senne designed a "tent-shaped church" on an octagonal base, which was directly connected to the existing parish hall and was inaugurated on March 27, 1987.

The construction management was in the hands of the Gütersloh architect Werner Honigmund (* 1933). The construction costs amounted to 750,000 D-Mark, of which the Gütersloh parish contributed 450,000 D-Mark and the parish 80,000 D-Mark. The community was able to attract donations of 220,000 D-Marks.

In addition to a grand piano, the equipment includes an organ made by Speith-Orgelbau , Rietberg. The instrument, built in 1987, has 16 stops on two manuals and pedal , mechanical action and registration.

The stained glass windows , which were also designed by Fritz K. Wachtmann, are worth seeing . In 2012, a stained glass window designed by Woldemar Winkler in 1956 and bricked up in 1971 was uncovered in the parish hall , which takes up the parable of the fourfold field (Matthew 13, 3–8).

In 2008, a new parish hall was built according to plans by the architect Reinhard Michel, which was inaugurated on September 7th of that year.

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