"A new neat church in Gothic style was built for the parish of Schinna in the district called Worth, west of the churchyard side, which also forms the access road to the monastery courtyard, built in 1886 and consecrated on March 21." This is what the Kreisblatt for the district of Nienburg wrote at the time, saying that this church did not fit in with its surroundings. It was a town church, not a village church. But whether a town or village church - today the people of the parish enjoy it and do not think it is too fine for the "simple" country folk.
The chronicles show that it already had two predecessors, as the history of the parish in Schinna begins with the mention of the year the monastery was founded in 1148, which was confirmed in a document by a Minden feudal lord in honour of St Vitus for Benedictine monks. The church was built in the neo-Gothic style, "solid red bricks, ashlar base, gabled roof over the nave, forest roofs over the choir and sacristies, Solingen tiles on the floor", between mighty lime trees inviting people to worship. Its spire, covered with a copper helmet since 1902, is adorned with an iron cross with a continuous helmet bar.
The interior of the church is a five-bay vaulted hall. The bays are not evenly formed. They present themselves with the wall pillars made of red brick, which are boldly fired. Six two-light tracery windows adorn the three central bays. The organ loft is located above the entrance on the west side. It rests on four oak pillars. Between two outer rows of pews, a central aisle leads to the triumphal arch.
This church was built according to the specifications of building councilor C. W. Hase, who was born in Einbeck on October 2, 1818 and, as a master builder of the Historium, probably created more than a hundred churches in the neo-Gothic style.
The chronicles show that it already had two predecessors, as the history of the parish in Schinna begins with the mention of the year the monastery was founded in 1148, which was confirmed in a document by a Minden feudal lord in honour of St Vitus for Benedictine monks. The church was built in the neo-Gothic style, "solid red bricks, ashlar base, gabled roof over the nave, forest roofs over the choir and sacristies, Solingen tiles on the floor", between mighty lime trees inviting people to worship. Its spire, covered with a copper helmet since 1902, is adorned with an iron cross with a continuous helmet bar.
The interior of the church is a five-bay vaulted hall. The bays are not evenly formed. They present themselves with the wall pillars made of red brick, which are boldly fired. Six two-light tracery windows adorn the three central bays. The organ loft is located above the entrance on the west side. It rests on four oak pillars. Between two outer rows of pews, a central aisle leads to the triumphal arch.
This church was built according to the specifications of building councilor C. W. Hase, who was born in Einbeck on October 2, 1818 and, as a master builder of the Historium, probably created more than a hundred churches in the neo-Gothic style.
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