Bartholomäus-Kirche
Bartholomäus-Kirche stands in Dortmund’s Lütgendortmund district as a Protestant church with foundations reaching into local medieval history. The surrounding community first appears in records from 1308. Its present building, inaugurated on 19 September 1834, replaced an unsafe predecessor and incorporates the site’s long ecclesiastical past.
The church was first consecrated in 1360, then destroyed during the Dortmund Feud in 1388. Spanish troops burned its tower in 1585, while the Reformation reached Lütgendortmund in 1599. The congregation formally became Protestant in 1664, and the old tower remained beside the new construction until 1855. Severe wartime damage required another reconstruction, completed in 1951.
Inside, windows designed by Ute Rakob in 1994 add a later artistic layer to the architecture. A Schuke organ provides forty registers across three manuals and a pedal. Four bronze bells installed in 2012 now harmonise with the nearby Catholic church’s chimes.
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