Evangelische Kirche Heimsen
Evangelische Kirche Heimsen stands in Heimsen, a district of Petershagen in North Rhine-Westphalia, within the Weser cultural landscape. It belongs to the Weserkirchen and connects with the Sigwards Pilgerweg. The church forms part of the Minden church district within the Evangelical Church of Westphalia. The early twelfth-century church presents a 1205 tower and a tympanum above the main entrance.
Around 1510, a late Gothic ribbed vault replaced the simple wooden ceiling and required outside buttresses. During the Thirty Years’ War, fire destroyed the church furnishings. The 1664 benches survived that destruction and remain part of the interior. Three tower bells trace another layer of history: one dates from 1751, while two were cast in 1952.
Friedrich Klassmeier built an organ in 1930, and Bergmann Mühlhan of Clausthal supplied its replacement in 1973. The replacement began life at Hohenbüchen in 1848. Individual registers later expanded it with a Rückpositiv, adding a distinctive detail to the historic instrument.
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