Bochum - Dorfkirche Stiepel 01
The Protestant Stiepeler village church, in the south of Bochum in the part of town of Stiepel situated, is a cultural monument of the Ruhr Area which counts with his about millennial history to the oldest still preserved buildings of Bochum.
The meaning of the church lies above all in the unusually extensive medieval mural paintings. In 1988 the church with the historical churchyard surrounding them was put by the city of Bochum under conservation of monuments and historic buildings.
On the 27th of April, 1001 Otto III awarded the main court belonging to the karolingish-ottonic imperial property which belonged to already about 900 A.D. in the register of the Benedictine's cloister Werden mentioned "villa stipula" in which to counts Liutger from the Saxon gender of the Billunger.
Seven years later received count Liutger Mrs. Imma who was descended from the gender of the Immedinger to establish the permission on the donation an own church by the mediation of emperor Heinrich II. The permission, from the inhabitant of Cologne archbishop Heribert presumably on the 6th of April, 1008 by endowment letter given, also contained the right to exercise without limitation the spiritual welfare. The church should have been donated by countess Imma to Stiepel, as it was also called, to honour of the virgin Maria, which popes Cornelius and the holy Cyprianus.
The Reformation began in Stiepel in 1596. However, only in 1610 the priest Henricu Cluvenbeck at that time of the Roman-Catholic church should totally have renounced and have passed to the Lutheran faith.
Since this time the Stiepeler village church is Protestant.
Bochum - Dorfkirche Stiepel 01
The Protestant Stiepeler village church, in the south of Bochum in the part of town of Stiepel situated, is a cultural monument of the Ruhr Area which counts with his about millennial history to the oldest still preserved buildings of Bochum.
The meaning of the church lies above all in the unusually extensive medieval mural paintings. In 1988 the church with the historical churchyard surrounding them was put by the city of Bochum under conservation of monuments and historic buildings.
On the 27th of April, 1001 Otto III awarded the main court belonging to the karolingish-ottonic imperial property which belonged to already about 900 A.D. in the register of the Benedictine's cloister Werden mentioned "villa stipula" in which to counts Liutger from the Saxon gender of the Billunger.
Seven years later received count Liutger Mrs. Imma who was descended from the gender of the Immedinger to establish the permission on the donation an own church by the mediation of emperor Heinrich II. The permission, from the inhabitant of Cologne archbishop Heribert presumably on the 6th of April, 1008 by endowment letter given, also contained the right to exercise without limitation the spiritual welfare. The church should have been donated by countess Imma to Stiepel, as it was also called, to honour of the virgin Maria, which popes Cornelius and the holy Cyprianus.
The Reformation began in Stiepel in 1596. However, only in 1610 the priest Henricu Cluvenbeck at that time of the Roman-Catholic church should totally have renounced and have passed to the Lutheran faith.
Since this time the Stiepeler village church is Protestant.