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The south side of the imposing Protestant town church is being divided harmonically by old and new design elements. The Anglo-Norman style, Romanesque portal, created around 1250, forms in its stylish cohesion, a jewel of Westphalian architecture in the Tecklenburg Land.
Situated in close proximity is the town's war cenotaph, created 1930, which touches in its poignancy the observer still today.
The town church Lengerich in its present form stem from the 14th respectively the late 15th-century. Today, the four-level church tower with its 61 metres is the oldest construction part. The
late-Gothic style nave, in the form of a Westphalian hall church was completed in 1497. One single mighty pillar carries the weight of the arch from main and side nave. The church interior may be viewed on request. (Protestant community Lengerich, Herr Reinecke 05481 80733).

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The church's dimensions remind of the heydays of the provincial town Margarethen-Lengerich from 1327 until the reformation in 1527. In these 200 years, the village was a place of pilgrimage. On the saint's day of Margareta von Antiochien, the 20th of July, more and more pilgrims gathered in the village to worship the saint. Apparently there was also a fountain with water that had healing powers.
When the Earl von Tecklenburg introduced the reformation to his domain, the pilgrimage to the miraculous image of the saint Margaretha was suppressed and her statue destroyed.

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More information at
Tourist Information Lengerich
Rathausplatz 1
Telephone: 05481 82422

tourist-informtion@lengerich.de
www.lengerich.de