Nordwohlde Church

In the Romanesque hall church with a projecting west tower, the western parts of the church, made of fieldstones, date from the early 13th century. In 1325, it was first mentioned in a document as the Church of St. Dionysius. The eastern part, made of bricks with high round-arched windows, is dated to the end of the 13th century. At that time or somewhat later, several windows of the fieldstone nave were enlarged with brick, the western one on the north side with an indicated pointed arch. The 25-meter-high tower has replaced a previous tower since 1852. On the former south portal, one can see sharpening grooves, whose function and meaning here and elsewhere are still not conclusively clarified.

The pulpit basket, decorated with reliefs of the four evangelist reliefs, dates from 1664. In 1982, two new paintings by the church painter Oetken were inserted into the richly ornamented Baroque framing of the former altar wall from the 17th century, but in 2014 they were moved to the south wall of the choir. The organ was purchased in 1964 and has one manual. In 1982, the colored glazing by Heinz Lilienthal, set in concrete struts, was also installed in the four choir windows. In 2014, the sculptural furnishings of the church, created by Karin Rosenbaum since 2000, were supplemented by the Risen Christ on the altar wall.

A two-part peal hangs in the tower. In 1825, a bell was recast, which had to be surrendered in 1917 during the First World War. As a replacement, a new bell was commissioned in 1925, but it too had to be surrendered in the Second World War. In 1959, the current large bell was cast. The small bell survived both wars. It is a Gothic bell of pleasing shape and with an astonishingly clearly structured partial tone composition.