St. Peter (Koenigswinter)
The Catholic pilgrimage chapel St. Peter on the Petersberg in Königswinter was built in 1763. It stands including a grave lay in the choir as a monument under monument protection .
location
The chapel is 334.3 m above sea level. NHN slightly above and 25 m east of the representative entrance area of the grand hotel on the edge of a park planted with fir and beech trees . 50 m to the east are the remains of a medieval church complex at the highest point of the mountain.
history
A first pilgrimage church dedicated to St. Peter on the Petersberg was probably built in the 14th century. A repair is known from the 16th century, and the last documentary mention of this chapel was made in 1566. It presumably existed until the middle of the 18th century and gave the previously mentioned Stromberg elevation its name. Today's baroque chapel was built in its place under the Heisterbach abbot Augustin Mengelberg (1748–1763) . The topping-out ceremony took place on June 28, 1763, and on Easter 1764 the new building was consecrated by Mengelberg's successor, Hermann Kneusgen . The lordly border between the Duchy of Berg ( Office Löwenburg ) and the Electorate of Cologne ( Office Wolkenburg ) ran right through the chapel, as confirmed by a border inspection in 1777. Originally four processional paths (of which the Petersberger Bittweg has been preserved ) led to the pilgrimage chapel on the Petersberg.
The band part on the resolution of the Abbey Heisterbach (1803) for church Niederdollendorf . From 1934/35 to 1938, on the initiative of Peter Mülhens , it was restored with a modified roof turret under the guidance of the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation in Bonn, and in 1937 it also received heating from the hotel and an organ from the Klais company in 1938/39 . In 1979 the chapel and the Petersberg became the property of the Federal Republic of Germany with the obligation to keep it for the service . From May to September, a mass takes place here on the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. In 1995 Michael Schumacher married his wife Corinna in the chapel on the Petersberg.
In the spring of 2013, the renovation of the chapel began, in the course of which, among other things, the cemetery wall at the rear was to be rebuilt.
building
The chapel is a plastered hall building with a baroque roof turret and a three-sided choir closure . There are four arched windows on the long sides, and two arched niches with a statue of Peter and Mary on the western outer wall. The interior has largely been preserved in its original condition and partly taken over from the previous building, including a mirror ceiling painted in 1937/38 . A special feature of the chapel was formerly a mobile pulpit that could be rolled to the waiting crowd.
organ
Amazingly, the chapel contains a very large organ, which was built in 1938 by the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company (Opus 919). The entire pipework, which consists mainly of copper , is hidden behind the altars, invisible to the church visitor. The free-standing console is located to the right of the entrance and operates the pipework by means of electrical action . The cone chest , which was modern at the time , was used here, which also enables a variety of playing aids .
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- Coupling : II / I, Sub II / I, I / P, II / P, Koppeln-Werke off
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, one free pedal combination, hand register, tongue holder, tutti, shutter release, tremulant
literature
- Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 171.
- Norbert Schloßmacher ; Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (Ed.): Rheinische Kunststätten . Catholic churches in the valley area of the city of Königswinter , issue 411, 1st edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-88094-787-2 , p. 19.
- Winfried Biesing: The Petersberg. From the Fliehburg to the residence for state guests . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 1990, ISBN 3-89365-186-1 .
- 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 , p. 361.
- Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the Siegkreis . Printed and published by L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1907, p. 149. (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5, Section 4, p. 849) (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1984 , ISBN 3-590-32120-2 ) ( Internet Archive )
Web links
- Entry for the pilgrimage chapel of St. Peter on the Petersberg (St. Peter chapel on the Stromberg) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
- The chapel on the Petersberg in Koenigswinter. A gallery with many pictures from 1900 to today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 128
- ↑ Information according to the German basic map (DGK5) (available in the TIM-online map service )
- ↑ a b Winfried Biesing: The Petersberg. From the Fliehburg to the residence for state guests .
- ^ New foundation for cemetery wall , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, February 28, 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 9.8 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 30.5 ″ E