Sankt Peders Kirke (Bornholm)

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Sankt Peders Kirke

The Evangelical Lutheran Sankt Peders Kirke is a Romanesque church on the Danish island of Bornholm . It is located southeast of Aakirkeby on Søndre Landevej and is named after the apostle Peter .

History and architecture

The apse , choir and nave were built from Silurian limestone in the Romanesque period , initially only the apse and choir, and a little later the nave. In the 16th century the three-story stone tower was added to the west. The current brick porch dates from 1864 and replaces an earlier one from the Romanesque period. Apse, choir and nave are covered with lead, tower and vestibule with roof tiles.

The apse has its original hemispherical vault, the choir and nave have a flat, painted wooden ceiling from the 19th century. The east wall of the nave is unplastered, next to the choir arch are two lower niches in which side altars stood before the Reformation.

The altar dates from 1854, the altarpiece by C. Chr. Andersen from 1876 shows Christ and the Canaanite woman . The late Romanesque baptismal font comes from Gotland and is made of limestone. The wooden pulpit from 1845 has five round-arched fields separated by Corinthian columns and an octagonal sound cover. The organ was built in 1906 by Joh. P. Andreasen & Co. from Ringkøbing and has six stops. On the top floor of the tower hang two bells, one from 1574 from Lübeck and one from 1701.

  • Ship to the east

  • Ship to the west

  • altar

  • Baptismal font

  • pulpit

Web links

Commons : Sankt Peders Kirke (Bornholms Regionskommune)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Søndre Landevej is a highway that leads south of the road 38 also Rønne to Nexø.
  2. ↑ Sankt Peders Kirke (Danish), accessed on August 9, 2019.
  3. ^ Bornholms Museum: Bornholms old churches , 1999. ISBN 87 88 179 41 9 .

Coordinates: 55 ° 1 ′ 36.1 ″  N , 14 ° 58 ′ 35.2 ″  E