St. Peter (Herchen)
The parish church of St. Peter Herchen was mentioned for the first time in 1131 and confirmed by Pope Innocent II to the Bonn Cassiusstift as being subject to a tenth obligation. It is not known exactly when the first and / or the current church was built.
description
The parish church of St. Peter in Herchen is a three-aisled quarry stone building with a Romanesque, four-storey west tower and central nave, a late Gothic choir and newer aisles. On the baroque door is the year 1617, the 22nd day of June . A turret has been attached to the central nave since 1764.
Baptismal font
The font is a trachyte in the early Gothic style from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century.
Faith
At the time of the Reformation , Herchen became Lutheran, the few Catholics who had not converted held their services during the Reformation in the old monastery church. After the death of the last reformed pastor was on September 14, 1638 from Blankerberger bailiff the pastorate by Jesuits occupied. The church continued to be used by the Protestant community. The rights to the cemetery around the church were revoked in 1853, the new cemetery was divided into Protestant and Catholic by drawing lots in 1854. It was not until January 27, 1876, after a long dispute about sharing the costs, that the evangelical community decided not to share the old church and built its own church. The Catholic Church was redesigned after the dissolution of the Simultaneum by August Carl Lange .
Web links
literature
- Franz Josef Schmitz: 850 years of the parish church of St. Peter Herchen , 1981
- Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 562-564. [not yet evaluated for this article]
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 53.4 " N , 7 ° 30 ′ 42.9" E