Romanesque Weser Church Buchholz

Due to its location just a few meters from the banks of the Weser, Buchholz church is known as the Weser church. The nave, choir and apse date from the last quarter of the 12th century and were built in the Romanesque style. The tower was added to the nave around 1200, and the small arched windows of Romanesque origin are still partially visible on the outer wall. In Gothic times, the church was given large windows and the groined vault in the nave. The very carefully carved Porta sandstone ashlars are striking.

The oldest piece of interior decoration is the baptismal font, which dates back to the 13th century. The organ was built in 1703 for the Mauritius Monastery in Minden, after the dissolution of which the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III donated it to the church in Buchholz in 1815. The painting of the resurrected Christ on the east wall of the choir was created towards the end of the extensive renovation from 1922 to 1929. Unfortunately, the remains of the original paintings from the 13th century could not be preserved at that time. The tower of the originally Romanesque baptistery houses one of the oldest bells in Westphalia.