Church on Sunday

So it's Sunday, what better day to talk about the churches in the family history?
Both the Gehners and the Schweppe families were originally from the Borgholzhausen, Germany area and were bought up in the German Lutheran church, specifically this one-- the Evangelical Parish Church in Borgholzhausen, today part of the Halle district of the Evangelische Kirche of Westphalia.

Henry Sr. (in German: Johann Heinrich Gehner) was baptized here in August 1830, while his first wife Maria Schweppe was baptized at the same church in 1841.(Maria's father was baptised in Detmold, which is about 20km from Borgholzhausen)

The building itself dates from around 1496, and the carved altar dates from 1501.

Sources:

• Baptism records from Family History Library international film #473585 (Baptisms 1820-1851)  Evangelical Church of Borgholzhausen, Germany
• Building information from Wikipedia.de entry for Borgholzhausen
• Exterior Photo from Wikimedia Commons.  Public domain image by Hagar66
• Interior Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Public domain image (published in 1908) in The Architectural and Cultural Monuments of Westphalia, Halle District