Petrikirche (Dortmund)
The Protestant St. Petri Church in Dortmund is an urban Westphalian hall church in the high Gothic style. Coming close to the ideal type of this church shape, the central nave and side aisles are equally high. The building has an almost square floor plan with a comparatively short choir. The sacred building is an important example of the special design of the hall churches in Westphalia .
history
The Petrikirche is, next to the Protestant Reinoldikirche and the Protestant Marienkirche , another medieval church directly on the Westenhellweg in downtown Dortmund . The three-bay construction began in 1322 and is made of light sandstone. In its present form, the church shows the original, medieval shape of transverse gable roofs over the side aisles, which presents the viewer with a series of small pointed gables.
What is striking is the over-high-looking spire, which after a collapse in 1752 could not be seen in this form for a long time and was only restored to its historical height on November 17, 1981 after the destruction of the Second World War. In these dimensions it is the product of an old competition for the highest church tower in the city between Reinoldikirche and Petrikirche in the 15th and 16th centuries. Today the tower spire has a total height of about 60 meters. It consists of a 15 meter high substructure and a 48 meter high spire with a globe and cross. The total height of the Petrikirche is 105 meters after the tower has been restored.
Furnishing
altar
Inside St. Petri is the Golden Wonder of Westphalia , a splendid carved altar. It is a late Gothic winged altar ( Antwerp reredos ) from 1521. When closed, the altar shows the adoration of the Eucharist. When first opened, 36 detailed images can be seen. The holiday page, when opened, shows 30 compartments with gold-plated carved figures. A non-profit association called “The Golden Miracle in St. Petri eV” for the preservation of this cultural asset collects donations for cementing and restoration.
organ
Although the small post-war organ (17 stops on 2 manuals and pedal) from Walcker was never able to fill the space of the Petrikirche musically, the contract for a new organ was only signed at the end of 2013. Orgelbau Schulte was commissioned to convert the romantic organ, which had been built in 1868 by the English company Radcliff & Sagar for the church of St. Mary, Woodkirk, near Leeds, and to convert it for the church in Dortmund due to the church being closed. Since the entire technology, the wind turbine, the wind chests, the housing and the console were manufactured in the Kürten workshop, the instrument now looks more like a new building, which was inaugurated on September 6, 2015. The simple, 7.5 meter high cube with a cross section of 3 × 2 meters houses 1,049 pipes and polarized. The shell made of gray glazed birch wood boards allows glimpses into the technology of the organ. The free-standing, mobile console is connected to the organ via a LAN cable. The control takes over (after the organist) a Castellan system from Sinua. Disposition of the Radcliff & Sager 1868 / Schulte 2015 organ:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Octave coupling: Super / Sub II / I, Super / Sub I / P, Super / Sub II / P
- the Castellan system allows the user to create his own paddocks
Bells
The historical bell consisted of four bronze bells (c '1710, es' 1639, e '1497, ges' 1639). These did not need to be delivered in World War II, but were destroyed when the church was destroyed in 1945. Today's chime consists of five cast steel bells:
| No. | designation | Nominal | Weight | Diameter | Casting year | Caster |
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| 1 | Trinity | b ° -4 | 2,600 kg | 1,954 mm | 1963 | Bochum
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| 2 | Christ | c'-6 | 1,800 kg | 1,658 mm | ||
| 3 | Praise and thanks | es'-2 | 1,080 kg | 1,425 mm | ||
| 4th | peace | f'-3 | 720 kg | 1,260 mm | ||
| 5 | Peter | g'-2 | 580 kg | 1,110 mm |
On July 1, 2007, the formerly independent St. Petri parish merged with the parishes Nicolai and Martin to form the Evangelical parish of St. Petri-Nicolai. The background to the merger is the decreasing number of parishioners and the associated decrease in financial resources. The new large evangelical congregation will have around 9,000 members.
The church with its historical fountain is registered as a monument in the monument list of the city of Dortmund .
literature
- Wolfgang Rinke: Dortmund churches of the Middle Ages. Dortmund 1991, ISBN 3-7932-5032-6 .
- Barbara Welzel (ed.): The “golden miracle” in the Dortmund Petrikirche: Image use and image production in the Middle Ages. Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-8953-4522-9 .
Web links
- Internet presence of the evangelical St. Petrikirchengemeinde Dortmund
- Report on a conference on the “Golden Miracle” in the Petri Church in 2003
- Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund (Ed.): Monument of the Month June 2012 ( Memento from June 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tower recording with full bell of the Protestant St. Petri Church in Dortmund on YouTube .
- ↑ Claus Peter: The bells of the Dortmund city churches . Ed .: Foundation Monument Values Churches of the Protestant Church in Dortmund and Lünen. Dortmund 2010, p. 32-36 .
- ↑ No. A 0547. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 11, 2014 (size: 180 kB). 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 53 ″ N , 7 ° 27 ′ 37 ″ E