Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
4th St W & County Road 55
Zeeland, McIntosh County, North Dakota 58581
4th St W & County Road 55
Zeeland, McIntosh County, North Dakota 58581
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ZION EV ANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
The roots of Zion Congregation of Zeeland, North Dakota, go back to the 1880's when Pastor Christian
Boettcher of Marshall, Minn., began convassing the area from Elkton and Menno, South Dakota. northward
to Watertown and westward to Rapid City, South Dakota.
The rapid expansion of the work in this territory made necessary the calling of more missionaries. Their
means of travel was on horseback and by horse and buggy, and in the sod huts of the settlers on the vast prairies, the first Lutheran services in the Dakota's were conducted.
Pastor Lahme, from Redfield, South Dakota, established the Emmanuel Lutheran Church north of the South Dakota border from Artas, South Dakota, and the Friedens church seven miles west of Zeeland. In 1915, when the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in Zeeland, it was served by pastors in the following order: Engel, Pieper and Adaschek. In succeeding years were: Abelmann, Louis and Keturaket, Neumann, Kolander, Baer, Bade and Herrmann.
The present parsonage was built during the time that Pastor Samuel Baer was serving the parish (1925-1938).
Pastors after Herrmann were Philip Janke, Ernest Klaszus, Waldemar Loescher, Arnold Lemke, Donald Forss, and Robert Weimer, who has served since February 1972.
The 1915 church was sold and dismantled after a new brick building was erected in 1967, when Rev. Arnold Lemke was pastor.
The saddest tragedy in Zeeland was the death of Wade Zick, the organist and choir director, and his wife Ellen, July 11, 1976.
There is an active Sunday School with five regular teachers, Ladies Aid, Young People's Groups, and a choir that sings every Sunday.
Info from - ZEELAND 1902-1977 (page 19)
The roots of Zion Congregation of Zeeland, North Dakota, go back to the 1880's when Pastor Christian
Boettcher of Marshall, Minn., began convassing the area from Elkton and Menno, South Dakota. northward
to Watertown and westward to Rapid City, South Dakota.
The rapid expansion of the work in this territory made necessary the calling of more missionaries. Their
means of travel was on horseback and by horse and buggy, and in the sod huts of the settlers on the vast prairies, the first Lutheran services in the Dakota's were conducted.
Pastor Lahme, from Redfield, South Dakota, established the Emmanuel Lutheran Church north of the South Dakota border from Artas, South Dakota, and the Friedens church seven miles west of Zeeland. In 1915, when the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in Zeeland, it was served by pastors in the following order: Engel, Pieper and Adaschek. In succeeding years were: Abelmann, Louis and Keturaket, Neumann, Kolander, Baer, Bade and Herrmann.
The present parsonage was built during the time that Pastor Samuel Baer was serving the parish (1925-1938).
Pastors after Herrmann were Philip Janke, Ernest Klaszus, Waldemar Loescher, Arnold Lemke, Donald Forss, and Robert Weimer, who has served since February 1972.
The 1915 church was sold and dismantled after a new brick building was erected in 1967, when Rev. Arnold Lemke was pastor.
The saddest tragedy in Zeeland was the death of Wade Zick, the organist and choir director, and his wife Ellen, July 11, 1976.
There is an active Sunday School with five regular teachers, Ladies Aid, Young People's Groups, and a choir that sings every Sunday.
Info from - ZEELAND 1902-1977 (page 19)