Matthew Church (Hunteburg)

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The Matthäuskirche is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Hunteburg .

The villages of Welplage, Schwege and Meyerhöfen, which today belong to Hunteburg, belonged to Ostercappeln in the Middle Ages and were raised to a chapel parish in 1401. The post-Reformation affiliation remained volatile. The majority of the population was Catholic. The pastorate was also granted to Catholics according to Art. 21 of the Capitulatio perpetua . The Protestant Christians came to Dielingen in the 17th century.

In addition to the church building, there is a parish hall, a parish hall and a day care center for the parish.

Church building

Inscription above the entrance
Bells next to the church

The current building was erected between 1815 and 1817. The foundation stone was laid on April 15, 1815, and on the same day there was an evangelical service in Hunteburg for the first time. Heinrich Daniel Andreas Sonne incorrectly states 1814 as the year of origin in his work “Description of the Kingdom of Hanover”. On the day the foundation stone was laid, the first Protestant pastor, Bernhard Pagenstecher, was introduced to his office. Both Protestant and Catholic carters transported the stones required for building the church from Lemförde. The words “Monumentum regiae munificentiae” are written above the entrance to the church. DPC MDCCCXV ".

This building was built with financial support from the sovereign for the Welplage and Schwege farmers, and in 1897 the Protestant inhabitants of the Meyerhöfen farmers were assigned to the parish.

From 1894 to 1898 Pastor Otto Heinrich Nöldeke, a nephew of the poet and draftsman Wilhelm Busch , was in office in Hunteburg , who stayed with him repeatedly.

The church is made of sandstone and is a simple hall church with a sacristy. In 1967 and 1973/74 the interior, altar and pulpit were redesigned. In 1979 the church was named "Matthäuskirche". In 1999 a crucifix was hung over the altar.

The original organ comes from Carl Haupt (Ostercappeln) and was subsequently supplemented. In 1977 the organ building company Detlef Kleuker carried out repairs .

Four bells, including an hour bell, hang in the tower of St. Matthew's Church, the largest from 1990 with the inscription "Glory to God in the height", the middle - the donation from a parishioner - from 2006 with the inscription "Peace on Earth" and the smallest from 1999 - donated by a Hunteburg family - with the inscription "Christ is our peace". The hour bell from 2006 bears the ornament “My time is in your hands”. All bells were made in the Hessian bell foundry Rincker in Sinn . Two "disused" bells from 1918 and 1951 are on the ground next to the church.

Web links

Commons : Matthäuskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the parish , accessed on November 17, 2019
  2. ↑ s. here and here
  3. ↑ a b Information board next to the church, s. also here
  4. ^ Heinrich Daniel Andreas Sonne: Description of the Kingdom of Hanover , Volume 5, JG Cottasche Buchhandlung, Munich 1834, p. 455 ( link to the digitized version )
  5. ↑ Report in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on May 28, 2015 about the 200th anniversary
  6. ↑ s. also here
  7. ↑ Information board next to the church, s. also here

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 16.5 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 34.4"  E