Matthew Church (Mahnen)
The Matthäuskirche in Mahnen , in the district Löhne-Bahnhof, a district of the Löhner district Gohfeld , is the church of the Evangelical parish Mahnen, which belongs to the parish Vlotho of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .
history
The area of today's parish Mahnen originally belonged to the Simeon Church in Gohfeld. After the construction of the Löhne train station , the village of Löhne-Bahnhof developed in the second half of the 19th century. On January 1, 1895, a separate parish for Löhne-Bahnhof and Bischofshagen was parish . It was named Mahnen after a small farming community with four farms .
The foundation stone for the first church building was laid on June 19, 1895, and it was consecrated on December 15, 1896. By 1913 a rectory and a parish hall were built next to it. On March 14, 1945, the church and the adjacent buildings were badly damaged in a bomb attack on the train station. The nave had to be demolished, the tower was restored from 1952 to 1953 and the old height was restored with a roof turret . The worship place after the Second World War, initially held in a school.
From 1964, a new building was built by the architect Werner Johannsen, Osnabrück, partly on the foundation of the destroyed nave, a few meters away from the tower. The inauguration took place on January 17, 1965. The church was named after the evangelist Matthew . It is a listed building.
Furnishing
The altar , pulpit and baptismal font of the Matthäuskirche were made of limestone by the Nuremberg sculptor Heinz Heiber . From Heinz Lilienthal come concrete and stained glass windows .
The organ originally manufactured by Emanuel Kemper in Lübeck was expanded by Steinmann . In the tower there are three bells cast by the Bochumer Verein , which date from the year of construction in 1896.
literature
- Walter Becker: Evangelical Church Community Mahnen. In: Kirchenkreis Vlotho (ed.): Church on the Weser and Werre. 150 years of the Vlotho church district. Bad Oeynhausen 1991, pp. 152-155.
- Gerhard Rösche: From the beginning to the end of the 19th century. In: Evang. Parish Gohfeld (Ed.): 950 years of the church in Gohfeld. Bad Oeynhausen 1985, pp. 13-27.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rösche, p. 27; Becker, p. 152.
- ↑ Becker, p. 154.
- ^ Pastors Günter Kotthaus and Walter Becker and others: 125 years of CVJM Gohfeld + Mahnen 18553-1972 . Ed .: Parish Mahnen.
- ↑ a b Parish of Mahnen: Matthäuskirche
- ↑ a b Kirchenkreis Vlotho: Information on the parish of Mahnen ( memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 8 ° 43 ′ 4 ″ E