WBro Stefan Cink Placed in the Chair of King Solomon November 2024
WBro Stefan Cink took his seat on Sat 16th in the East and heads up a wonderful installation
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Arnhem Day Donation
WBro Roy Charles (Rose of Minden Lodge), accompanied this year by Bro Ralf Creswell (Brothers of Hiram Lodge) made the trip to Arnhem by motorcycle and spent a long weekend taking part in the memorial services, this included a donation from The Rose of Minden, being received on Sunday 22nd September by the Market Garden Foundation.
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Herford Monument Day Sep 2024
The Lodge set up ready to inform visitors
Every year in September, Herford holds a “Denkmal Tag” (Monument Day) where a number of listed and historical buildings within the city are opened up to the public so that tour groups can move from one building to the next and learn about the interesting histories connected to them.
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Hexenhaus Potts Park Day Trip Aug 2024
WM WBro Roy Crockford with his grandson Henry taking a trip on the mini train
The Hexenhaus Frauenhaus Espelnkamp (women & childrens refuge) has been a long-term charity which The Rose of Minden has been happy to support for many many years. Keeping with that tradition the Lodge organised a day trip to the popular Potts Park theme park on the outskirts of Minden Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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An Honour Bestowed Jun 2024
Our resident Lodge landlords, the German Lodge Zur Roten Erde celebrated their 125th anniversary on 14 May 2024, which they did in great style by performing their ceremony using the York Rite ritual finishing off with a Festive Board in the “Drei Gänge” restaurant also housed within the Lodge building. Unfortunately, the evening couldn’t go quite according to plan as a guest who was due to receive honouree membership was unable to attend. Read more……..
Bro Sascha Schmittutz Joins 918 on Burns Night Feb 2024
A long celebrated tradition within The Rose of Minden Lodge is to hold a Burns Night in conjunction with an initiation. On the 7th February we were very pleased to see Bro Sascha Schmittutz as a newly initiated Brother into our Lodge. Proposed by his close friend Senior Steward Björn Groos who is the perfect person to assist him on his Masonic Journey. We wish Bro Sascha a very warm welcome and hope he enjoys a long and fortuitous stay within our excellent fraternity.
Photos of the evening can be found here
WBro Roy Crockford now sits in the Chair of King Solomon
Saturday 18th November 2023 saw WBro Roy Crockford take the Chair of King Solomon after hard work of all the Rose of Minden’s Brethren put on an excellent installation.
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A new Lodge is consecrated within GLBFG
The Brothers of Hiram Lodge No.1101 is the first official motorcycle Freemasonry Lodge to be formed in Germany.
It was consecrated in Herford by the AGM RWBro Gary Wormald and officers of Grand Lodge of British Freemasonry Germany (GLBFG) on 15th July 2023 and was formed by 15 Founding members from within United Grand Lodges of Germany (VGLvD) and Luxemburg. A day which saw nearly 70 Brethren from across VGLvD, as well as visitors from Luxemburg, Bulgaria & Gibraltar attending the ceremony.
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WBro Thorsten Dunne installed and Rose of Minden
Celebrates its 50th Jubilee Nov 2022
WBro Thorsten Dunne takes his seat in the East and heads up a wonderful installation which also saw The Rose of Minden Lodge Nr 918 celebrate it’s 50th anniversary
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WBro Dave Chessell assumes the helm Nov 2021
The Rose of Minden Lodge Nr.918 welcomes a new Worshipful Master WBro Dave Chessell into the Chair of King Solomon. Read more……..
