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Built around 1140. Court church of the Counts of Diepholz.
According to historical tradition, there was a wooden church in Mariendrebber as early as 850. She was standing right next to the dog. The Counts of Diepholz replaced it with an early Gothic brick building, built as a Gothic hall church with a transept. Only the southern wing of the transept remains.
The Marienkirche was badly damaged several times by fires and armed conflicts. After the destruction in the Thirty Years' War, it was restored in 1655-1659. From 1857 to 1860 it was again repaired, whereby the south gable and almost all windows were renewed and the walls were raised. Only the eastern choir window was retained in its original size and profile.
The last Count of Diepholz, Count Friedrich II. Was buried in a magnificent sarcophagus in St. Mary's Church in 1585.
Precious inventories are the altar from 1665, the wooden pulpit from 1673 with a depiction of the reformer Martin Luther, the Gothic baptismal font, a pre-Reformation tabernacle and various figures of saints from the 14th century.
The Mariendrebber organ dates from 1659 and is one of the most important instruments of the North German Baroque. It was built by the organ builder Berendt Hus (around 1630-1676).