Petrikirche (Mülheim)
The Protestant Petrikirche , the oldest church building in Mülheim an der Ruhr , goes back to the chapel of a medieval manor on today's church hill. It is one of eight churches in the parish that are under monument protection .
history
The Lords of Mulinhem , then owners of the farm, are first mentioned in 1093. The church consecrated to St. Peter goes back to the farm's own chapel of the Lords of Mulinhem, which was expanded into a two-aisled Romanesque hall church around 1200 and the historical one Represents the settlement core of the city. In 1250 the church was extended by a four-storey west tower made of coal sandstone . At the end of the 15th century, the parish church was expanded to include a Gothic choir and the chapel was extended to the north. The Petrikirche was the parish church of the parish Mülheim. At times it served as a burial place for the von Broichs .
The Petri parish joined the Reformation around the middle of the 16th century.
Subsequent expansions turned the inconspicuous parish church into a large hall church.
In the years 1870 to 1872 the nave of the building was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style, the church tower and choir were preserved. Between 1912 and 1913 the interior was extensively redesigned.
War years and reconstruction
During the Second World War , the church was so badly bombed that essentially the remains of the wall and the ruins of the bell tower were preserved. The reconstruction lasted from 1949 to 1958. Under the Gelsenkirchen architect Denis Boniver , the exterior and interior appearance of the church changed drastically, so the church received a wooden flat ceiling.
At the end of the 20th century, the Petrikirche received new choir windows, a new pulpit and a new altar. In addition, the candlesticks, crucifixes and lamps were given a new, lighter look.
people
- Theodor Undereyck (1635–1693), pastor in Mülheim 1660–1668, important pietistic theologian.
- Eduard Wilhelm Schulz (1796–1880), pastor in Mülheim from 1820, close to the revival movement , founder of the Protestant hospital.
- Ludwig Wessel (1879–1922), pastor in Mülheim from April 1, 1908 to October 9, 1913, pastor of the old town parish. He was the initiator of the radical redesign of the Petrikirche in 1912/13 against the resistance of strictly reformed / Pietic parishioners. He was the father of Horst Wessel .
- From 1922 until his retirement in 1961, the pastor of the Confessing Church Ernst Barnstein worked at the church ; the city honored him in 1989 by naming the square around the church as Pastor-Barnstein-Platz.
- From 1952 to 1968 the composer and church music director Siegfried Reda worked at the church as organist .
Special equipment
The furnishings of the church include the bronze reliefs created in 1959/60 by Rika Unger on the doors of the portal, which show scenes from the life of the apostle Peter , as well as the stained glass windows by Ernst Rasche .
organ
From 1955 to 1959, a new organ with 59 registers was built by the Berliner Werkstätte Karl Schuke according to plans by Siegfried Reda , which is now a listed building because of its intonation and richness of sound. A small “organ museum” is set up next to the organ.
Todays use
Today the building is used by the United Evangelical Church Community in Mülheim, not only for church services, but also for musical and other artistic events.
literature
- Brigide Schwarz : The Petrikirche in Mülheim as a stately burial place with an excursus on the building history of the church (see Appendix I) = magazine. of the History Association Mülheim ad Ruhr 78/2007
- Ernst Haiger: "A place of beautiful and noble art": The redesign of the Petrikirche 1912/13 . - In: Baukunst in Mülheim an der Ruhr = magazine of the historical association Mülheim an der Ruhr 91/2016, pp. 115–189
- Hans-Werner Nierhaus: The Reformation period in Mülheim an der Ruhr from a social-historical point of view . - In: Mülheimer Jahrbuch 2017, pp. 258–272.
Web links
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- Website of the Ev. Parish ad Ruhr
- "Places of contemplation and prayer - listed churches" Brochure for the "Open Monument Day 2007", PDF
Individual evidence
- ^ VHS Mülheim - Siegfried-Reda-Platz ( Memento from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '36 " N , 6 ° 52' 59.9" E