Excursion Tecklenburger Land – fully booked!

The ‘Tecklenburger Land’ excursion goes to the former County of Lingen. Count Konrad initiated the Reformation there in 1541. The St. Mauritius medieval parish church in Ibbenbüren became the Protestant Christuskirche (Christ’s Church). Its plain interior characterised by Gothic architecture provides an impressive location for church services and modern sacred art until today. The direct coexistence of Catholic and Protestant Christians can be comprehended in Recke: While the Protestants there took over the medieval church building during the Reformation, the Catholic congregation had to make do with a simple emergency church, which has also been preserved until today. The monastery church in Schale, a jewel of late-Romanesque architecture became a parish church for a Protestant congregation when the monastery was dissolved during the Reformation. In the neighbouring village of Schapen in the Emsland, Lutheran and reformed Christians are organised in separate congregations until today. Here, the picturesquely situated reformed church continues to have furnishings typical of a Calvinist house of God. 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.