Peterskirche Kirchdornberg
St. Peter zu Kirchdornberg today belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish in the Bielefeld district of Dornberg in the Bielefeld parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . The church is the oldest sacred building in what is today the city of Bielefeld.
history
The first documentary evidence of a sacred building in Kirchdornberg can be found in 1281. Archaeological excavations have, however, proven a first predecessor building from the 8th century with a retracted rectangular choir, as it was not far from Kirchdornberg in the foundations of the foundation walls discovered around 789 by St. Waltger in Müdehorst in 1949 found women's monastery, which was later moved to Herford. This type of church of comparable size is also documented under the Minden Cathedral and in Enger .
Saint Waltger came from a noble Saxon family based in Dornberg, with whom the first documented church building there must be connected. The St. Peter's patronage, which is not atypical for Christianization in the Carolingian mission area, also indicates this. Waltger later transferred his property in Dornberg to Herford Abbey . Waltger is also said to have brought relics of St. Oswald from England to St. Peter's Church, where worship and pilgrimages are still recorded in the 16th century.
Until a chapel of its own was built in Steinhagen in 1334 , the Dornberg parish extended over the Teutoburg Forest and included Steinhagen and Babenhausen and Hoberge. Later, Depp village and Uerentrup added. The Reformation was introduced in Dornberg around 1527 as the first parish in the Bielefeld area.
Furnishing
Today's Peterskirche is a three-bay Gothic hall church from the 14th century. The Romanesque church tower from the 11th century has an early Gothic upper floor. The carved altar with crucifixion group dates from the 13th century, the baroque pulpit and baptismal font from 1685. Remains of vault and wall paintings can be dated to the 14th to 16th centuries.
Bells
The church had a three-part chime since the Middle Ages. One of the bells was expropriated and melted down during the First World War. Two bells - cast in 1510 and 1743 - still exist today. The church has had four bronze bells since 1927. Two bells confiscated during World War II were replaced in 1954. The wooden belfry was replaced by a steel structure in 1927, which was replaced by a wooden belfry in 1998. At the same time, the oldest bell from 1510 was restored and made ringable again.
| Surname | Bell IV Marienglocke since 1998 "Baptism bell" |
Bell II | Bell III | Bell i |
| Casting year | 1510 | 1743 | 1953 | 1953 |
| Caster | Herbert van Bippen | Behrendt Henrich Fricke | Rincker brothers | Rincker brothers |
| Diameter (mm) | 730 | 1145 | 1000 | 1345 |
| Weight (approx kg) | 230 | 900 | 630 | 1550 |
| Chime | cis "-1 | f '+3 | g '+3 | d '+3 |
See also
- List of architectural monuments in the Bielefeld-Dornberg district
- List of religious buildings in Bielefeld
literature
- Bérenger, Daniel, Müdehorst and Jostberg: Two monastery church ruins in Bielefeld . In: Annual report of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg 92 . 2007, p. 7-26 .
- Honselmann, Klemens: Reliquary translations to Saxony . In: Victor Elbern (Ed.): The first millennium . tape 1 . Düsseldorf 1962.
- Ludorff, Albert: The buildings and art monuments of the Bielefeld-Land district . Munster 1906.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Harald Propach, The Bells of Bielefeld. Voice of the Church. Cultural assets and works of art , Publishing House for Regional History , Bielefeld 2008, ISSN 1619-9022 , 120-122; Claus Peter, On the history of the Dornberg bells in: Community letter of the Ev.-Luth. Parish Dornberg , Issue 37, September 2010, 6-10
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 43 " N , 8 ° 26 ′ 25.1" E