Memorial to war and violence
Opposite the church directly on the eastern slope of the Bergkirchener Kopf stands the memorial against war and violence. It was built in 1961 and goes back to an initiative of the district association Minden of returnees. The Eidinghauser sculptor Theodor Henke created it from red Obernbecker sandstone. Three steps of this material lead over a small embankment out to the memorial. On the first level is the inscription "All Dead", on the second level "Man-Killed" and on the third "1939-1945 and always". The steps lead the viewer to the actual memorial, a stone designed as a cross with the inscription "and love remains the reason of the world despite blood and death and weapons." On the stone is a bronze plate attached with a relief depicting prisoners behind barbed wire, and the inscription "Do not forget us".
