Quakenbrück - St. Marien

Quakenbrück was founded in 1234 by the bishop of Osnabrück, although the area had been settled previously. When the bishop founded a collegiate chapter, it was probably the bishop's intention to form Quakenbrück as the northernmost bulwark of his diocese. The Reformation, introduced by Hermann Bonnus of Quakenbrück, shaped and changed the town.

During this process St. Sylvester the former collegiate church (prev. upload), fell to the Protestants under Hermann Bonnus.

After the Counter-Reformation and the end of the Thirty Years' War, the properties of the chapter were divided between the two confessions. As the Catholics sold parts of their new properties, they were able to build their own church,

St. Marien was founded in 1652 as a Franciscan monastery church and completed in 1696. It was destroyed during WWII, Only the tower from 1873 survived the bombings. The church was rebuilt in its present form in the 1950s.