St. Peter's Basilica (Dillingen)

St. Peter's Basilica in Dillingen

inner space

The St. Peter Basilica is a Catholic parish church in the center of Dillingen an der Donau . In addition to the Augsburg Cathedral , St. Peter is the co- cathedral of the Augsburg diocese and thus also the consecration and grave church for the Augsburg bishops .

history

In 1498, Friedrich II. Von Zollern , Bishop of Augsburg , had a collegiate monastery built on the previous building of today's parish church ; it was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization . The collegiate church became a parish church again.

Pope John Paul II elevated the church to a minor basilica in 1979 .

Church building

The three-aisled hall church was built from 1619 to 1628 by the court architect Hans Alberthal on the foundations of previous churches from the 13th and 15th centuries. The church has cathedral-like dimensions; it is 54.8 meters long, 22.3 meters high and 22 meters wide. The church was renovated in 1643 after damage in the Thirty Years' War during the occupation of Dillingen by the Swedes. In 1669, the Gothic tower from the previous church was raised to 49 meters by David Motzardt , great-great-grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . In 1733 the Erasmus Chapel was built on the north side, in 1733 and 1734 the stucco and painting was carried out in its current form. From August 2015 to April 2019 the static repairs with exterior and interior restoration took place.

The monastery church of the Franciscan Sisters adjoins the south-east corner of the basilica, and a Lourdes grotto is located on the south-west corner .

organ

In 1978 the organ building company Hubert Sandtner (Dillingen) built the organ of the basilica with 47 registers , whereby some registers of the predecessor organ by GF Steinmeyer (Oettingen) from 1889 were reused. In 2006 the disposition was changed and expanded to 53 registers.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Praestant	16 ′
2.	Principal	8th'
3.	Flauto	8th'
4th	Gamba	8th'
5.	Octave	4 ′
6th	Pointed flute	4 ′
7th	Fifth	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
8th.	Super octave	2 ′
9.	Cornet V (from g ⁰ )	8th'
10.	Mixture VI	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
11.	Cymbel III	¹ ⁄ ₂ ′
12.	Trumpet	8th'

II Positive C-g ³
13.	Covered	8th'
14th	Quintad	8th'
15th	viola	8th'	S.
16.	Principal	4 ′	S.
17th	Reed flute	4 ′
18th	Sesquialter II	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
19th	Octave	2 '
20th	Larigot	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
21st	Scharff II	² ⁄ ₃ ′
22nd	Dulcian	16 ′	S.
23.	Cromorne	8th'	S.
	Tremulant
	Carillon (g ⁰ - g ³ )		S.

III Swell C – g ³
24.	Bourdon	16 ′
25th	Principal	8th'
26th	Wooden flute	8th'
27.	Salicional	8th'	H
28.	Vox coelestis	8th'	H
29	Octave	4 ′
30th	Flute	4 ′
31.	Nasard	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
32.	Flautino	2 '
33.	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
34.	Piccolo	1'	S.
35.	Mixture V	2 ′
36.	bassoon	16 ′
37.	Trumpet harm.	8th'	S.
38.	oboe	8th'	S.
39.	Vox humana	8th'	S.
	Tremulant

Chamadenwerk C – g ³
40.	Trompeta magna	16 ′	S.
41.	Trompeta real	8th'	S.

Pedals C – f ¹
42.	Contrabass	32 ′	S.
43.	Principal bass	16 ′	H
44.	Sub bass	16 ′	H
45.	Octavbass	8th'	H
46.	Bourdon	8th'
47.	violoncello	8th'	S.
48.	Octave	4 ′
49.	Mixture V	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
50.	Bombard	32 ′	S.
51.	trombone	16 ′
51.	Trumpet	8th'
53.	Clairon	4 ′
	Carillon (G – g ¹ )		S.

Pairing :

Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Super octave coupling: III / P
Sub-octave coupling: III / III, III / I
Chamade coupling: Ch / I, Ch / II, Ch / III, Ch / P

Subsidiary register (2006): Cymbelstern, Cucculus

Playing aids : u. a. eight thousand electronic typesetting system

Remarks

H = Steinmeyer historical register (1889)

S = register from the 2006 amendment

Bells

In the bell cage of St. Peter's Basilica hangs a valuable triple bell from 1724. It was cast on behalf of Alexander Sigmund von Pfalz-Neuburg , Bishop of Augsburg. In 1981 two modern bells were added. The church also has a death bell that was cast in 1716.

No.	Surname	Casting year	Foundry, casting location	Diameter (mm)	Weight (kg)	Nominal (16th note)	inscription
1	Christ bell	1981	Company Gebr. Bachert , Bad Friedrichshall	1510	1932	of ¹ -5	Jesus Christ est modellum nostrum
2	Most Holy Trinity Bell	1724	Nikolaus (I) & Alexander Arnoldt	1334	about 1500	it ¹ –4
3	Peter and Paul bell			1085	about 800	ges ¹ -6
4th	Holy Family Bell			880	about 400	b ¹ -4
5	-	1981	Company Gebr. Bachert, Bad Friedrichshall	775	297	of ² -4	You holy patrons pray for us!
6th	Train bells (death bell)	1716	Franciscus Kern (I), Augsburg	475		as ²

Web links

Commons : St. Peter (Dillingen an der Donau) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Diocese of Augsburg
↑ Information on the basilica organ on the Dillinger Basilica Concerts website

48.578055555556 10.493958333333Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 41 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 38.2 ″ E

[1] Diocese of Augsburg

[2] Information on the basilica organ on the Dillinger Basilica Concerts website