Excursion Grafschaft Tecklenburg

The excursion ‘County of Tecklenburg’ goes to the former County of Tecklenburg, which under Count Konrad became a central area of the Reformation in Westphalia as of 1534. We visit the Tecklenburg town church of 1562, the oldest church built specifically for a Protestant congregation in northwest Germany, with the funerary monuments of Count Konrad and Countess Mechthild. As a result of the Reformation, the Diocese of Leeden was transformed from a Cistercian abbey into a Protestant convent. Parts of the medieval abbey building were preserved. The church in Lengerich once contained a famous painting of the pilgrimage of Saint Margaretha. But there were no longer any pilgrimages or veneration of saints here at the latest with the introduction of the Tecklenburg church order of 1543. The final stop at the Protestant church in Lienen, with building components from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, relates an eventful history.
We begin with a tour through the exhibition: '1517. A Legacy' in the Liberna study hall of the Draiflessen Collection in Mettingen.

Cost per person: € 49, plus € 15 for lunch together.