Noordmonster of Sint Pieterskerk (Middelburg)
The Noordmonster of Sint Pieterskerk ( German Nordmünster or Sankt-Peters-Kirche ) was a collegiate and parish church in Middelburg in the Dutch province of Zeeland . It was also known as the Oude Kerk (German Old Church ).
history
The church, which was consecrated to St. Peter up until the Reformation , was parish in the eleventh century from the oldest Middelburg parish church, the Westmünster , and placed under the chapter on St. Pieter in Utrecht . The patronage of the new church was probably taken over from there. As a result, the North Minster became the mother church of new parishes on Walcheren as well as in South and North Beveland . So in 1153 the parish of Zanddijk took place as a forerunner of the Church of Our Lady in Veere , before 1216 by Gapinge and before 1249 by Buttinge . In 1310 the chapter of St. Pieter in Middelburg consisted of a dean and 14 canons. In the course of defending against the Reformation, a diocese was established in Middelburg in 1561 and St. Pieter became the cathedral church of the first and only bishop Nicolas de Castro. In 1566 the interior of the cathedral was devastated in the course of a Reformation iconoclast. During the siege of Middelburg as a result of the Eighty Years' War , Castro died on May 16, 1573 and was buried in the choir of St. Pieterskerk. After the fall of Middelburg in 1574, the last members of the chapter fled to Antwerp . St. Pieter became a parish church again and on February 18, 1574, the first Reformed service in the city was celebrated in it. In the following period the name of the church developed in the population as Oude Kerk, as the old church, while the former abbey church of the Premonstratensians is called the Nieuwe Kerk, as the new church.
On July 30, 1809, large British troops landed on Walcheren, which were quartered in the St. Pieterskerk, among other places. After the British withdrew on December 23, 1809, the condition of the church is described as pathetic. Even in the course of a decline in Middelburg's population at that time, the church was no longer needed. There were no more services in it. On January 11, 1833 it was finally decided to sell the sacred building for demolition. Their location was on today's street "Hofplein".
literature
- IH Vogel-Wessels de Boer: De Sint-Pieterskerk te Middelburg , in Zeeland 8 (1999) 4, pp. 121-132.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '4.7 " N , 3 ° 36" 42.8 " E