Protestant Church of St. John the Baptist (Neuengeseke)

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For more than 800 years, the Church of St. John the Baptist has been the focal point of the villages of Opmünden, Beusingsen, Enkesen im Klei, Herringsen, Ellingsen, Brüllingsen, Altengeseke and Neuengeseke. A visit to this beautiful old Romanesque church is well worthwhile.





St. Johannes Kirche Bad Sassendorf Neuengeseke

Address

Protestant Church of St. John the Baptist (Neuengeseke)

Schluppergasse 2

59505 Bad Sassendorf

Telephone: 02927-189504

info@kirche-moehnesee-neuengeseke.de

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Homepage

Properties:

  • Free admission
  • open on request/by arrangement
When you step over the threshold of the church, you enter a piece of heaven on earth. The congregation has been worshipping here for more than 800 years. Many people have spoken to God here, given thanks and prayed for help, baptized their children, begun their lives together at the altar and mourned their dead. That makes this space a special place.

Every generation has left its mark and helped shape this place. We invite you to read our church with attentive eyes like a book. Three embrasures can still be seen at chest height on the outer wall, and if you have entered the church through the heavy north portal, you will recognize a mighty crossbeam in the wall on the inside of the door.

In times of war, this room was a shelter where people could take refuge. Luther's hymn "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" was to be understood quite literally at the time.

You are now entering a high, wide and bright room, which nevertheless radiates warmth and security with its thick walls and round pillars. This tells us something about when the church was built. The building is still dominated by the earthy Romanesque style, and yet it is already bright and airy, as in the later Gothic period, to which the pointed vaults already belong.

The first thing you notice is the richly decorated altar, which was created shortly after the Thirty Years' War in 1661. It shows Jesus on the way to the cross in the middle, with the Last Supper below and the resurrection above.

The church's pulpit is a particular gem. It shows Christ and the four evangelists with their symbols at the bottom and the virtues, which are the fruits of the sermon, on the sounding board. Are you able to decipher the beautiful symbols?

At first, you probably think of a lamp when you see the structure above the choir. However, it is a hanging font that can be lowered for baptism. The old baptismal font from 1691, in the shape of a chalice, stands at the front of the left aisle.

Service: usually Sundays, 09:00 Source

: www.kirche-moehnesee-neuengeseke.de

Business hours

Church service: usually Sundays, 09.00 a.m.

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