Petruskirche (Neu-Ulm)
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The Petruskirche in the Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm is a sacred building erected in the 19th century in the center of the former township . She belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Neu-Ulm in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . In the course of development, the church was rebuilt several times inside and out. The church is a listed building .
location
The church stands free on a 55 × 75 square meter town square. It is lined with rows of trees to the northeast and southwest. After completion of all renovation work, including the construction of an underground car park under the square and the extensive renovation of the church, the town square was officially named Petrusplatz in 1993 .
Building history
From the laying of the foundation stone to 1871
In the 19th century, numerous Catholics and Protestants also settled in the city of Neu-Ulm . In the 19th century, the Protestant parish decided to build its own church in the center of the village. After collecting donations and providing the funds for the purchase of a building plot and for the construction work, the foundation stone was laid on October 15, 1863 .
The building plans were provided by the royal district architect Georg Freiherr von Stengel , who also planned the Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist . On 25 August 1867 the provincial government took Ernst Freiherr von Lerchenfeld the inauguration of the first Protestant parish church worship mentioned before. It was not until 1963 that it was given the name of the Apostle Peter to distinguish it from the second Evangelical Church in Neu-Ulm . After the rectory was completed in 1871, the city and the parish designed the surrounding church square.
1872 until the end of the Second World War
In the 1880s and 1890s pews were installed in the gallery , and the first organ from Sigmund Braungart's workshop was converted by the Steinmeyer company . In addition, the church interior received heating and electrical lighting. At the end of the First World War , the parish had to deliver the two largest bronze bells as a metal donation from the German people to be remelted into military equipment.
In 1926 the electro-mechanical church tower clock was installed. Also in the 1920s, extensive renovation work took place according to plans and under the direction of the Ulm architect Albert Unseld, such as masonry repairs, repairs to the flooring, and new color schemes. The community also had two new church bells cast and installed. In 1943 the renewed bells were again delivered for war purposes; In the spring of 1945 bombings damaged the roof of the church building, the windows also broke and traces of smoke remained inside.
1945 into the 21st century
After the war, repairs were carried out quickly so that the church could be used again: parts of the windows were replaced, damage in and on the masonry of the western sacristy was removed and the roof was repaired. In the 1950s, a more extensive reconstruction took place under the responsibility of the architect Ott from Günzburg . Among other things, the interior designer and sculptor Karlheinz Hoffmann redesigned the main church space a little: the high altar and the strict arrangement of straight benches were retained, the ornamented wall surfaces were painted over with a lighter color.
The appearance of the 21st century emerged after massive renovation work in the 1960s, 1970s and 2010s. In 1963 the church was renamed Petruskirche , because a second Evangelical-Lutheran church building had been built in the city in the meantime with the Erlöserkirche in the Neu-Ulm district of Offenhausen.
The idea of preparing the basement rooms for the needs of the community came about because the church council had not found suitable rooms in the vicinity of the church. The execution (from 1967) took place under the direction of the architect Theodor Steinhauser . The old entrance portal on the southeast side and the side stair towers were demolished for this.
The renovation work meant that
- the main room loosened up, the straight wooden pews expanded, the altar was sold to Koblenz ,
- the altar niche received the most economical jewelry made of natural wood,
- the seating arrangement around the new church service island was changed to a semicircle.
In 1972, after completion of the extension of the new vestibule and the excavation of parts of the foundation, two new church entrances were created. Two bronze-clad wooden doors were built into these, hereinafter referred to as the Gospel door (left) and the Apostle door (right).
In 2015/2016, thanks to donations and grants, the congregation was able to carry out the most extensive renovation and conversion work in church history on the Petruskirche and the congregation rooms. The commissioned architecture office Meister from Ulm had the following detailed work carried out:
- on the main roof (securing and partially renewing the historic roof beams),
- on the vaulted domes of the main nave and the side aisles,
- General renovation of the church and the Petrus Hall as well as
- new room organization and expansion of the basement.
architecture
Exterior description: main building
The entire structure is built with exposed brick in the neo-Gothic style. It has a cruciform floor plan , the axes of which are oriented in the southeast-northwest (main nave) and southwest-northeast (transept). The monopitch roof of the main building is covered with slate. An extension was added to the south aisle at the beginning of the 1970s, in which two portals lead into the interior of the church instead of the broken main portal. This extension was clad in exposed brick in 2015, the size and color of which were agreed with the monument protection authority. The original stair tower to the gallery was torn down and three earlier windows are now barely recognizable from street level.
Exterior description: church tower
The integrated church tower has a square floor plan with a side length of about 5 meters and is closed off by an octagonal, copper-plate-covered pointed roof. It is estimated at a height of 70 m. In the tower there is the three-part bell and a church tower clock with dials in all four main directions, the hands are gold-plated. In 1990 the electromechanical tower clock was exchanged for a new radio-controlled one.
Portal extension
The two portals are about four by three meters in size and are closed by bronze-decorated church doors. Visitors reach the portals via a seven-step wide flight of stairs.
On the door leaves of the two new portals there are bronze reliefs that were executed according to designs by the Ulm sculptor, graphic artist and painter Günther Späth . The parish and a foundation of the city of Neu-Ulm provided the necessary funds.
- On the decorative panels of the gospel door, the story of the apostle Peter is represented by means of three pictures (and interwoven smaller scenes): “In the center is a torn tree trunk, stylized as a cross, with Jesus as Man of Sorrows, hands tied, the crown of thorns on his head , at his feet Peter with hands pressed in front of his face. The scene follows Jesus' announcement that he will be killed but will be resurrected on the third day. 'Lord, God forbid that', Peter then escapes, who is probably also afraid for his own fate. Späth lets him 'lie across' to the Son of God. Below this scene the crowing cock and the empty grave. At the top left, Jesus and Peter stand opposite each other with outstretched arms. 'You are Peter (Latin / Greek: the rock), and on this rock I want to build my church.' He hands the key to Peter. The crashing waves on the right wing of the door next to the cross refer to the Easter fishing trip at Lake Tiberias as John describes it in chapter 21 of his Gospel. At the top left the fishing boat, next to it Peter, who throws himself into the water with joy when he recognizes Jesus on the bank. On the right both are in each other's arms. "
- “On the panels of the apostle door, the disciples of Jesus are symbolically gathered under the cross and experience the miracle of Pentecost . Next to it, Peter's vision can be seen in which he sees a sack with allegedly unclean animals that, as a law-abiding Jew, he is not allowed to use. But he gains the realization that this uncleanness must not exist, that boundaries between classes, religions or social strata must not exist. "
One of the door handles is shaped like a fig tree. The reliefs were ceremonially handed over to the community on November 26, 1972. The pastor Joachim Pennig summarized the presentation as follows: "If the gospel door is about faith, the apostle door is about ethics ."
Interior description: main nave
The main room of the church appears rounded, but is the classic arrangement of a rib-vaulted room with two bays.
Interior description: Choir with altar island
The wooden altar table and the ambo are set up on a two-tier podium that stands free all around ; they form an altar island . A round wooden disc cross floats above it . On one side in front of the altar niche built into the church tower is the historic carved pulpit and on the other side a baptismal font made of wood . The pulpit is also called the Petrus pulpit . The island shape, with which the idea of community centricity was taken into account, and the simple natural wood furnishings come from the wood artist Karlheinz Hoffmann . Hoffmann received the art award of the Bavarian State Church for the interior design. The historic wooden furnishings were lightened, the floor was covered with parquet in a matching color.
Interior description: gallery
In the southeast area, the gallery extends around the room on three sides. It rests on slim, barely decorated columns.
Basement with sanitary area
The total renovation of the church, which began in the 1960s and will last until 2016, resulted in a basement area in which toilets and a kitchen were installed and barrier-free access was made possible. The work was largely financed by donations.
Vestibule
The two new main portals of the church initially lead the church visitor into an anteroom, in which a crucifix adorns a white wall and a separate, slightly elevated room offers space for small changing exhibitions, a cloakroom is separated. The depiction of the crucified one comes from the initial furnishing of the chancel. Concrete stairs now lead on both sides to the organ gallery. A staircase connects the entrance with the facilities in the basement and the elevator installed there.
Furnishing
Sanctuary
The wooden pulpit, but without a sound cover, and the baptismal font date from the first construction period.
The artist Lisa Beyer-Jatzlau (* 1923) designed two stained glass windows and donated them to the church as a new choir window in 1960. After the major renovation work in the 2000s, these were given their current places on the walls of the two stairs to the gallery . The north window is the baptismal window according to Mk 1,9-11 LUT , the south window shows a simplified communion scene ( Mt 26,26-28 LUT ) in plan view.
Seats
The earlier carved pews have been exchanged for connected individual seats that are set up in an arch. There were also benches in the gallery that had been delivered and installed in 1882. They also gave way to modern individual seats.
window
In 1956, the glass artist Wilhelm Geyer donated 12 colored windows depicting the 12 apostles , 6 of which were placed in the pointed arches under the galleries. After the complete redesign of the church interior and the commissioning of the porch, the middle parts of the windows, arranged side by side, were given their places above the two new portals. The names and the border have been omitted. However, two of the windows were apparently made again, because they are now under the gallery wings: one of them shows the patron saint of the church St. Peter .
Two decorative windows by Hubert Distler were built into the altar niche in 1971 : they represent the sun and the earth .
Visitors reach the portals via a seven-step wide staircase.
lighting
The renovation work also required a new lighting concept that creates a connection between the main church area and the adjoining rooms. Before that, umbrella-shaped hanging lamps provided the lighting for the chancel and the aisles. Now , inconspicuously placed, modern, cylindrical pendant lights fitted with LED lamps dominate the entire interior.
organ
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An organ is installed on the three-wing gallery , which was manufactured by Orgelbau Simon and inaugurated in 1972 . It replaced the first organ by Sigmund Braungart, which was installed here at the church inauguration, which was rebuilt in 1899 by the organ builder Steinmeyer from Oettingen . In 1928 this instrument was repaired and expanded. Finally, the Braungart-Steinmeyer organ had to be revised again in 1951.
The Simon organ initially had 22 registers on two manuals and a pedal . A restoration and expansion to 33 registers and three manuals followed in 1986 by the builder company.
The prospectus of the main housing is divided into five fields. The two outer pipe fields point upwards in the form of right-angled trapezoids , the low, narrow middle field is vertically rectangular and the back positive is transversely rectangular. This arrangement makes the entire prospectus look like a floating angel.
The abrasive loading -instrument with mechanical play and electrical register contracture has an electronic combination system with map memory and a possibility Crescendowalze . The three tremulants can each be controlled in frequency. The organ has the following disposition :
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- Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : typesetting system with card storage facility, crescendo roller , tutti
Bells
In the tower there is a three-part ringing made of bronze bells . The smallest bell is from the time it was built the church, the other two are Neugüsse the bell foundry Grüninger from Strasbourg and were on March 26, 1950 consecrated . The bell foundry in Wieland made the first bell in the 1860s. During the First World War , on July 15, 1918, the two largest bells had to be delivered as a metal donation from the German people to be converted into war material. In 1922 the community was able to inaugurate new bronze bells. In 1942, during the Second World War , the two largest had to be delivered again; they were melted down by rail along with many other bells.
- Bell plan - inscriptions and mood
| Surname | Mood | inscription | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big bell | a ′ |
His name is Jesus Christ. - Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same forever (Hebrews 13: 8) |
all three bells have a total mass of 1389 kg |
| Medium bell | G' |
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. - God is our confidence and strength (Ps. 46,1) |
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| Little bell | c ″ |
The word you should let stahn. - Your word is the truth (Hoh.17, 17) |
Use of the church
The church building is used for normal worship and other church affairs. It is also a reliably open church , so it can be visited and viewed by anyone who is interested.
The arrangement of the altar island enables it to be dismantled quickly so that public events and concerts can also take place in the acoustically well-balanced room.
In the portal extension there is a small, inwardly open room in which art exhibitions are possible and information material is kept ready.
Pastoral care
Church work
At the end of the 2010s, the Petrine congregation had around 4200 members. She works with young people, refugees and resettlers, organizes ecumenical church services and engages in dialogue with Muslims . It maintains a diaconal association, Bible and house groups, a visiting service, conducts espresso seminars, market and Saturday meetings, Monday rounds and senior work, and runs two daycare centers ( Zacchaeus Nest and Jona Island with 275 places and over 80 employees) .
The parish maintains full-time church musicians who perform as a chamber orchestra. The cantor is KMD Oliver Scheffels, he replaced KMD Wolfgang Gütinger as the predecessor in the Petruskirche. There is also the PetrusChor and a gospel choir.
Some churches in Neu-Ulm form a cooperative congregation, which is why guest sermons can also take place among each other ( sermon swap ). The Erlöserkirche on Martin-Luther-Straße is also there.
Pastor (selection)
- Adolf Bauer, 1876–1908, honorary citizen of the city of Neu-Ulm
- Joachim Pennig, around 1970–2007, January 30th
- Karin Schedler, 2007-2017
- Andreas Liedtke, 2016–2019
- Jürgen Pommer, since May 2018 (first pastor and dean of the Neu-Ulm dean 's office )
- Johannes Knöller, since July 2018 (second pastor)
literature
- 150 years of the Evangelical City Church in Neu-Ulm - A walk through space and time. Festschrift. Ed. Parish of St. Petruskirche. 2009.
- The Petrus Extra Leaflet. Edited on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Petruskirche in connection with an exhibition in the church.
Web links
- Homepage of the Neu-Ulm Petruskirche
- Full bell of the Petruskirche on YouTube , duration 5:05 minutes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c information boards on the history of Neu-Ulm; here: parish church (p. 4 v. 6). (PDF) Municipality, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Historical information , accessed on June 9, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e Petruskirche in Neu-Ulm: Two doors and their story (s). Augsburger Allgemeine , May 5, 2019, accessed on September 11, 2019 .
- ^ Renovation and expansion of the Petruskirche Neu-Ulm (project description). Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Tower dimensions and roofs from Google Earth , top view.
- ↑ a b c d Verena Schühly: Farewell to Pastor Karin Schedler. swp.de, July 22, 2017, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ The chancel . Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- ↑ Lisa Beyer-Jatzlau on the website of Galerie Zaiß, accessed on May 16, 2020.
- ↑ The explanations for the windows come from the information boards attached, photographed in May 2019.
- ↑ a b Neu-Ulm, Evang. Petruskirche. Research Unit Stained Glass of the 20th Century, accessed on September 14, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Focusing on the center: 150 years of Petruskirche . swp.de, accessed on September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ The Simon organ in the Petruskirche , accessed on September 11, 2019.
- ↑ a b Bells of the Petruskirche with historical photos , accessed on March 3, 2020.
- ↑ Dagmar Hub: One woman, one farewell and seven instruments. Augsburger Allgemeine, July 21, 2017, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Congregational Letter ; Events (p. 12). (PDF) 2017, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Homepage Erlöserkirche
- ^ Gerrit-Richard Ranft and Frank Kupke: Joachim Pennig becomes the new pastor in Münnerstadt. Main-Post , January 18, 2007, accessed on September 17, 2019 . (The complete newspaper article is chargeable).
- ↑ short biography of the priest Joachim Pennig , accessed on September 17 of 2019.
- ↑ Ronald Hummel: One step led to another - to Ries (biography of Karin Schedler). Augsburger Allgemeine , December 1, 2017, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ^ The parish chapter of the Deanery Neu-Ulm. 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Reinforcement for the Petruskirche. Augsburger Allgemeine , January 22, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Inge Pflüger: The new pastor wants to be an attentive contact person. Augsburger Allgemeine , June 2018, accessed on September 13, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '38.2 " N , 9 ° 59' 55.9" E