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Statuettes from about 1720;
left St. Peter, right St. Paul. oak, 58 cm (23 ins.) Photo (from the thirties): Westphalian office for the preservation of historic buildings and monuments, Muenster
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As early as 1450 in Doessel a church consecrated to St. Catherine is mentioned. Beginning and decline of this church however are very vague. According to excavations in 1976 this church was situated on the the present church location.
A second church was erected about 1580. In comparison to the first church building the position of this one must have been lower and further east.
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The sun monstrance,
silver, gold-plated, from 1674,
55 cm (22 ins.)
The monstrance was a
donation of the
canon von Wittinghoff
named Schell.
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Since the second church building showed heavy architectural damage in the middle of the 19th century parish Luenz intended to build a new church building. The heavily endebted municipality offered stiff resistance. Especially the mayor at that time tried to prevent the project. Nevertheless, parish Luenz was not afraid to raise the funds even by holding a common house collection in the whole province of Westphalia. The necessity of the new church building appeared at the occasion of the demolition of the old one: the timber was so rotten and shaky that a collapse had not be long in coming.
Diocesan architect Gueldenpfennig was commissioned with the building. The county government did not think much of his blueprint of the church tower but the villagers had their way. They did not want such a turret as the neighbour village Luetgeneder. The use of self-burnt bricks and many working hours by the community reduced the expenses.
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Not executed blueprint
of the west view from the 6th of May 1858 Origin: Warburg Municipal archives The consecration of the new built church was held in September 1864
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The Warburg sculptor Christian Sauerland (1874 - 1940)
later made the pulpit, the tabernacle, the side-parts of the pews and the
tombstone for parish Dreyer.
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