Peterskirche (Basel)

Peterskirche

The Peterskirche is a sacred building in the Swiss city ​​of Basel . It is consecrated to St. Peter and has been used as an evangelical reformed church since 1529 after conversion and renovations .

location

The church, which faces east-west, is located on a rock in the old town of Grossbasel , where Petersgasse and Kellergässlein meet.

Building history

At this point there was already a previous church building, which probably came from the 9th century. Until 1233, the church at that time was expanded and renewed as a parish church and monastery . The Basel earthquake of 1356 caused severe damage to the building and it had to be rebuilt. The choir was redesigned.

The main part, called “Leutkirche”, was planned according to the guidelines of the mendicant churches and was completed before 1388. The choir stalls are dated to 1494.

Furnishing

Leutkirche

Altar and organ in St. Peter's Church.

Church window in the Peterskirche Basel.

A spacious main nave with whitewashed walls is separated from two side aisles by light sandstone arches. The walls are richly decorated with picture cycles and wall paintings. In the south aisle there is the work of the Entombment of Christ, created around 1830, and the well-preserved mural The Annunciation to Mary (around 1400) in the “Keppenbach Chapel” . The pulpit was built around 1620 and is attributed to Franz Pergo .

organ

Organ of the Peterskirche Basel

The organ , which goes back to Johann Andreas Silbermann , houses a work by Neidhart & Lhôte built in 1968. The slider chest instrument has 32 registers on three manuals and a pedal. The actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C– Metal covered 8th' Principal 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Gemshorn 2 ′ Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Sharp IV 1' Krummhorn 8th'

II main work C– Quintatön 16 ′ Principal 8th' Cane-covered 8th' octave 4 ′ Pointed flute 4 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 2 ′ Mixture V-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Trumpet 8th' Clairon 4 ′

III breastwork C– Wood-covered 8th' recorder 4 ′ Principal 2 ′ Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sif flute 1' Glockenzimbel II 1 ⁄ 2 ′ Vox humana 8th'

Pedal C– Principal 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' octave 4 ′ Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Singing Cornett 2 ′

• Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Choir

Interior of the Peterskirche

The choir stalls by Ulrich Bruder contain religious and secular carvings with figures. Under the vault there are stone representations of the twelve apostles with their symbols.

Chapels

Chapel in the Peterskirche.

The choir is flanked by the Marien and Eberlerkapelle. They both contain wall paintings.

In the neighborhood

In front of the west side of the church is a memorial stele with a bronze portrait bust of the German poet Johann Peter Hebel, who was born in Basel . Not far away, the Pharmacy-Historical Museum invites you to visit.

literature

• Paul Ganz: Wall paintings to St. Peter in Basel . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 2, 1903, pp. 106–121. ( Digitized version )
• François Maurer: On the newly discovered mural in Basel's St. Peter's Church. In: Basler Stadtbuch 1963 , pp. 36–44.
• Brigitte Meles: The Peterskirche in Basel. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 861, Series 87). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2010.

Web links

Commons : Peterskirche (Basel)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Reformed parish of Basel West, district of St. Peter
• Photographs in the image database of the Canton of Basel-Stadt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Pfister : Franz Pergo. On furniture art in northwestern Switzerland around 1600, Basel 1984.
2. ^ The Silbermann / Lhôte organ. ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From the “Orgelmusik St. Peter” association, accessed on January 31, 2016. 
3. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 7"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred eleven thousand and thirty-eight  /  267647