In its current form the Marienkirche is in the year 1300 developed, was dedicated it 1320 still as…read moreMinoritenkirche. Particularly the Minoritenmonestry with its Marienkirche stood in 16. and 17. Century with center of the religion fights in Höxter. In the year 1812 the final dissolution of the monastery took place; the church was auctioneered and bought up by a number of protestant citizen families and saved from the destruction, since it should actually be torn off. In the year 1815 the family Klingeman transferred the church, which was then acquired 1850 finally by the protestant church municipality in their possession it today still is. The design of the church is very peculiar for Westphalia, since it exhibits an very hallcharacter and is very asymmetrical. But it is a beautiful, early Gothic building with a completely special atmosphere.