St. George

The former church of St. George was originally a Catholic parish church and after the Reformation a Protestant church in Soest in the district of Soest.

In 1180, the Archbishop of Cologne, Philipp von Heinsberg, divided the city of Soest, which belonged to Cologne, into six parishes. The parish districts roughly corresponded to the courtyards of the city. The Nordhofe was divided into two parish districts, namely St. Georg and St. Maria zur Wiese. In the post-Reformation period, St. George, as well as the church of Maria zur Wiese, became Protestant. At the beginning of the 19th century, Soest had grown from a once flourishing medieval Hanseatic town to a small, impoverished country town. Many of the many churches fell into disrepair, including St. George's Church, and could no longer be maintained. In 1822, it was decided to demolish St. George's Church and unite the community with the Wiesengemeinde. However, as stipulated in the Act of Unification, the merger of the congregations was not to be carried out immediately, but only after the death of one of the two preachers. The church was demolished in 1823. In its place, on the east side of the market square, the Ressource community centre was built from the demolition stones.

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