Evangelical Church in Kürten Delling

In 1582, the parish of Olpe embraced the Reformation. After initially holding Lutheran services, the incumbent pastor converted to the Reformed faith in 1623. When Kürten-Olpe reverted to Catholicism around 1622, a small Reformed congregation broke away. Heinrich Wilhelm von Mosbach of Breidenbach Castle made the Delling estate available as a place of worship. Through a religious agreement, the congregation received the right to public worship. In 1707, they purchased Delling House and adopted its name.
 
A donation from the king made the construction of a new church possible, which was to be built according to a Prussian "standard building plan" for churches of small Protestant congregations. This plan came from C.F. Thiele, a student of Schinkel, and so a Neoclassical church was built in the heart of the rural Bergisches Land region, consecrated in 1834. However, the structural integrity of the roof turret, which originally supported the bell, compromised the building so severely that a ceiling beam collapsed into the nave after only a few years. The overall modest building was completely renovated in 1969, and details that a poor congregation in the 19th century could not have afforded were added, such as the paintings on the pulpit, the pine cones, and many other details. Most importantly, the church received its third and, to date, finest organ during these years. It originated in the Westerwald region and had been built there in 1802. The organ is therefore older than the church itself and possesses several unique features that make it very valuable, but also quite difficult to play. The fact that it is tuned a semitone higher than other organs makes playing with other instruments difficult and demands considerable skill in transposing from the organist.

Church service: every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. www.kirche-delling.de. 
 
With www.kirche-delling.de/index.php/42-luftaufnahmen-kirche-delling There are some beautiful aerial photographs of the church in Kürten-Delling.