Petruskirche (Giessen)

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View from the west
Petruskirche from the southeast

The Petruskirche is a Protestant church in the city center of Gießen ( Central Hesse ). It was built between 1960 and 1962 according to plans by the architect Alfred Schild and is a Hessian cultural monument due to its artistic and ecclesiastical significance .

history

When the city population of Giessen grew in the 19th century, the city ​​church of 1821 was no longer sufficient to meet the needs. That is why the Johanneskirche was built and the Protestant township was divided into four independent parishes in 1892, which were named after the Evangelists . With the expansion of the city to the south at the beginning of the 20th century, the Lukas congregation had to be divided and on January 1, 1929 the Petruskirche congregation was established. In the same year a church building association was founded. In 1932, the Petruskapelle in Alten Wetzlarer Weg was inaugurated as a makeshift and a building plot at the corner of Wartweg / Studentensteg was acquired. Construction failed due to World War II, inflation andCurrency reform 1948 initially not be carried out. There was a further delay when the 1956 design by architect Alfred Schild turned out to be too big. The modified design was approved in March 1960. The first construction work began at the end of March 1960, the foundation stone was laid on July 24, 1960 and the inauguration took place on Whit Monday 1962. Altar cross, lectern, organ and bells were financed by donations.

architecture

Bronze portal to the west and stained glass windows

The flat-roofed church is oriented to the east-northeast. It is built on a parabolic floor plan and has a straight end to the street side in the west with a free forecourt. The monumental reinforced concrete construction is clad with natural stone blocks on the outside. The rectangular west facade has numerous very small rectangular and square windows with stained glass in the northern area, but is otherwise windowless. The fortress-like wall front is only loosened up by a Christ monogram and the bronze entrance doors. The inside of the church is illuminated on the sides by ribbon windows with stained glass, which are structured by pillars.

A prayer room adjoins the north side of the church. A tall, slender bell tower rises to the north, accessible through an intermediate building, but appears to be free-standing.

Furnishing

West gallery
View into the chancel

The interior of the church ends with a wooden flat ceiling. A concrete gallery is installed on the west side, which serves as the installation site for the organ. To the left of the organ, a band of life winds vertically through the ashlar joints, which shows the biblical words from Ps 121,7–8  LUT as an inscription .

The altar area is raised by three steps. From the outside, the pulpit looks like a solid stone block. While the sides have cuboid structure, the front is made of quarry stone in a cross shape. The altar plate is underlaid with stones made of rose quartz and rests on a hewn rock. The eight-sided baptismal font stands on a circular area, the base plates of which stand out from the other base plates due to their dark color with incorporated gold sprinkles and which is crossed by a large cross in shades of blue. The gold-plated baptismal bowl is covered by a brass plate, the handle of which is made of rose quartz. A large, simple wooden cross is attached to the east wall. The simple, wooden church stalls are aligned in two rows towards the altar area.

organ

Organ from 1968

The Petruskirche had since 1957 a positive from the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus with four registers and attached pedal . In 1968 the parish bought an organ from Förster & Nicolaus. 33 stops are distributed over three manuals and pedal. Each movement is housed in a different-shaped housing part. The main work rests on a triangular concrete slab that protrudes from the gallery into the nave. The pedals have wooden pipes in a right-angled prospect and close off the gallery on the left. The crown work rises above the breastwork in a curved case. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Quintadena 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Harp pipe 8th'
octave 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture IV-V 2 ′
Trumpet 8th'
shawm 4 ′
II Kronwerk C – g 3
Gemshorn 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Flat flute 2 ′
Chamois fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Whistle 8 ⁄ 9 ′
Sharp IV 2 ′
Dulzian shelf 16 ′
Tremulant
III Breastwork
(swellable) C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Principal 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
Sifflet 1'
Zimbel III 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Pointed flute 8th'
Pommer 4 ′
Dolkan 2 ′
Rauschzink V 2 ′
bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : 4 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination

Peal

The high bell tower of the Petruskirche houses a six-bell bell. The bells from the Rincker company were cast on August 1st, 1961 and delivered on September 9th, 1961.

No.
 		 Founder and casting year
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg)		 Chime
 inscription
 
1 Rincker , 1961 1520 1966 c 1 Mt 16,16  LUT
2 Rincker, 1961 1290 1296 it 1 Mt 14.3  LUT
3 Rincker, 1961 1103 826 g 1 Joh 21,22c  LUT
4th Rincker, 1961 1030 666 as 1 Joh 6,68  LUT
5 Rincker, 1961 927 481 b 1 Lk 22,32  LUT
6th Rincker, 1961 815 323 c 2 Joh 21,8  LUT

Parish

The Evangelical Petrus Congregation has around 4,000 members (as of 2015) and, along with 28 other parishes in and around Gießen, belongs to the Evangelical Dean's Office in Gießen , which is part of the Upper Hesse Provost within the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

The Petrusgemeinde is involved in refugee work. It is the place of the university church services. The proximity to the clinic established relationships with clinic and emergency pastoral care. A full-time organist and cantor position was set up for various church music activities.

The Petrine congregation had the following pastors:

  • 1929–1933: Friedrich Waas
  • 1933–1962: Otto Trapp
  • 1963–1970: Karl Dienst
  • 1970–1992: Karl-Adolf Lebrecht
  • since 1992: Matthias Leschhorn

A second pastor's office (parish vicar) was established in 1988, but it was canceled after 12 years.

  • 1988–1992: Matthias Leschhorn
  • 1992–1996: Kathleen Niepmann
  • 1996–2000: Hanne Allmannsberger

literature

  • Karl Dienst: The long way from the Alten Wetzlarer Weg to the Wartweg. From the building history of the Gießen Petruskirche. In: Karl Dienst: Gießen - Upper Hesse - Hesse. Contributions to Protestant church history. Verlag der Hessische Kirchengeschichtliche Vereinigung, Darmstadt 2010, pp. 519-540.
  • Ev. Petrusgemeinde Gießen (ed.): Festschrift 50 years Petruskirche. Giessen 2012.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. University town of Giessen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Verlagsgesellschaft Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-528-06246-0 , p. 452.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, DNB 800512863 , p. 62 f.

Web links

Commons : Petruskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Petruskirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , accessed on October 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ Service: The long way from the Old Wetzlarer Weg to the Wartweg. 2010, p. 520.
  3. ↑ Ev. Petrusgemeinde Gießen (ed.): Festschrift 50 years Petruskirche. Giessen 2012, p. 6.
  4. ↑ a b Ev. Petrusgemeinde Gießen (ed.): Festschrift 50 years Petruskirche. Giessen 2012, p. 10.
  5. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.1 . Part 1 (A – L)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 374-375 .
  6. ^ Organ of the Petruskirche Gießen , accessed on October 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ Service: The long way from the Old Wetzlarer Weg to the Wartweg. 2010, p. 532.
  8. ^ The Evangelical Dean's Office, Giessen , accessed on May 11, 2019.
  9. ↑ Ev. Petrusgemeinde Gießen (ed.): Festschrift 50 years Petruskirche. Giessen 2012, pp. 16-20.

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 29.5 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 9.03"  E