St. Petri Church (Bad Pyrmont)
The St. Petri Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Bad Pyrmont in the Hameln-Pyrmont district of Lower Saxony . It is the historic parish church of the former village of Oesdorf . It was founded in the 11th century. The current building was built in 1880 according to plans by Conrad Wilhelm Hase .
history
The Oesdorf Church is first attested in two deeds of donation from 1052 and 1076. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the Archdeaconate District of St. Marien in Steinheim . In 1552 the first Lutheran pastor was installed.
In a devastating village fire in 1667, the church was also destroyed except for the tower. The reconstruction took place as a simple hall church .
In the 1870s, structural damage and population growth led to the decision to build a new building, incorporating little remains of the previous church, especially the Romanesque tower. Conrad Wilhelm Hase, one of the leading architects of historicism , created one of his few neo-Romanesque designs based on the old Oesdorf church and in contrast to the recently built neo-Gothic Christ Church by August Orth .
In 1921, as part of a renewal of the bells, the old tower, which was no longer load-bearing, was removed and replaced by the higher new building, in which the original Romanesque central pillars of the sound openings were reused.
Building design
Hase designed the building as a strictly Romanesque basilica made of irregularly hewn reddish natural stone . Central nave and aisles close with flat beam ceilings . In front of the half-high round apse in the east, the nave extends over two bays like a transept. Aisles and cross arms run through wooden galleries .
Furnishing
Hase integrated two older relief panels, an Adoration of the Magi and a Resurrection of Christ into the altarpiece . The high wall above the apse shows a representation of Christ as Pantocrator in the mandorla , flanked by the Archangels Gabriel with the lily of the Annunciation and Michael as the victor over the dragon.
The Janke organ from 1977 comprises 30 stops on 3 manuals and pedal.
Web links
- Information board at the church
- From the history of Lügder (archiv-willeke.de)
- The St. Petri-Kirche Oesdorf (Evangelical Lutheran parish Bad Pyrmont on Facebook)
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 8.2 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 47.9 ″ E