Petrikirche (Petershagen)
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The Petrikirche (also: Stadtkirche ) in Petershagen is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Petershagen. It belongs to the Minden parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .
The current church building was erected in the 1610s instead of a previous building.
Building history
The original Petrikirche, built around 1360, was destroyed by fire in 1553. The new building was built between 1615 and 1618 in the Renaissance style with Gothic elements. The recently completed Bückeburg city church served as a model , but without its richly decorated Renaissance facade .
architecture
The Petrikirche is a three-aisled , four-bay hall church . The choir in the width of the nave is also three-aisled and straight closed with bevelled corners . The tower is located on the western yoke of the central nave and has a Welsche hood , which dates from 1732.
In the nave there is a ribbed vault with keystones on octagonal pillars and consoles . The windows in the nave are rounded , mostly in three parts and decorated with tracery , in the tower they are flat-arched . A walled up round window above the arched portal on the west side is decorated with rotating fish bubbles .
Furnishing
Most of the church furnishings come from the Renaissance . These include the octagonal baptismal font , originally from the chapel of the castle comes, a stone epitaph of the 16th century and two chandeliers made of bronze , one of which bears the year 1647th
literature
- Georg Dehio (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, II. Westphalia, Munich 1969, p. 465.
- Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 11: The architectural and art monuments of the Minden district. Münster iW 1902, p. 110 f.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 42 ″ N , 8 ° 58 ′ 8 ″ E