St. Peter (Loerrach)

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St. Peter, east view

The Church of St. Peter on the edge of the Grüttpark in Lörrach is a modern Roman Catholic church under the patronage of St. Peter .

history

Aerial view of St. Peter (1974)

The parish of St. Peter was formed, separated from the parish of St. Bonifatius in Lörrach, initially as a curate on November 1, 1964. It comprised the area of ​​Lörracher Nordstadt , the district of Tumringen and the Homburg settlement. On January 23, 1985, she was raised to parish status.

At the same time, the modern church was erected between 1962 and 1964 according to plans by the city building director Rudolf Dietsche. The first service took place on December 20, 1964. On June 13, 1965, the Archbishop of Freiburg, Hermann Schäufele, carried out the solemn consecration .

A comprehensive interior renovation took place in 2005/2006. a. the location of the altar and the steps in the choir room changed, but mainly the entire building technology was renewed. The costs for this amounted to around 625,000 euros. Since August 2012, the tower of St. Peter's Church has been renovated, which showed weather-related damage. The work, which cost around 170,000 euros, should continue as planned by the beginning of November.

According to a static report in 2018, the supporting structure of the roof is in need of renovation. Because of this, the church was closed over the summer. Since the roof construction has a complex structure, the renovation would cost 2.5 million euros. In May 2019 it was not yet clear whether this renovation would be carried out. Demolition of the Church is also being considered.

description

Building

Bell tower

The reinforced concrete church rests on a six-meter-high plateau, so it has an exposed location across the entire Grüttpark and can also be easily recognized from the surrounding hills of Lörrach. The church hall is located in a cylindrical low-rise building, on the north side of which is a 42 meter high angular bell tower that tapers towards the top . The roughly circular floor plan has a diameter of about 35 meters. Two transverse, intertwined ellipses of different wall heights form the spatial structure of the church. On the west side, for example, a lower quarter-circle segment protrudes from the cylindrical low-rise building, in which, in addition to the sacristy , there are also two side chapels.

A large cross protrudes from the front of the tower and there is a clock on a dark background on the west and east facades of the tower. On the south side, which is made of exposed concrete, there is also a clock at the same level. Behind it are the bells inside the tower. The otherwise light exterior painting is highlighted on these two sides of the facade by a light blue. The tower and church hall are visually connected to one another on the west side by a curved, rising concrete wall. The round shapes should harmonize with the surrounding landscape and especially the mountains.

Furnishing

The concrete glass wall from the outside

The only window front in the church hall is on the east side. The 220 square meter concrete glass wall was created by the Freiburg artist Wilfrid Perraudin and was the largest in the world when it was completed in 1963. The depiction shows the life and death of the church patron Peter. The light wall consists of different colored glasses. His attributes point to Peter : the inverted cross, the cock and two intertwined keys. The representation is accompanied by floating forms that lead into the cosmic. The northern part of the window front is room height; from there it tapers towards the south like an arrow to the roof edge of the hall.

By Paul Ibenthaler the glass window of the confessional, the scenes from the Passion of Jesus come show and the concrete stele at the church entrance with scenes from the life of Peter. The hanging altar cross and the Christmas picture were created by Eugen Zimmermann . He also designed the statue of the Madonna, which was executed by the Lörrach sculptor Matthias Buchhaas. The tabernacle , made of gold and enamel , is from Ms. Siedler-Winterhalter from Basel; the stations of the cross and the Easter candlestick by the Rottweiler painter and sculptor Siegfried Haas .

The ringing of St. Peter consists of six bells, they were tuned to the nominal b °, d ′, f ′, g ′, b ′, c ″. The bells hang on wooden yokes in a three-story wooden bell chair. They were cast by the Karlsruhe bell and art foundry in 1978 .

Loerrach-St. Peter - interior view.jpg
Interior view looking towards the altar and the side chapels

organ

organ

The organ with two manuals and pedal and 32 stops was built by the organ building company Fischer & Krämer from Endingen and installed in 1974. The instrument with mechanical slider chest , an electric Register contracture and translators combinations with around 7,000 storage capabilities has the following disposition :

I. Manual Cg 3
Pommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Wooden flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Cornet IV-V 8th'
Siflet 1'
Mixture V-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet en chamade 8th'
Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
II. Manual Cg 3
Bourdon 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Flageolet 2 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff IV 1'
Wooden dulcian 16 ′
Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal mechanism Cf 1
Principal (prospectus) 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
octave 8th'
Covered 8th'
octave 4 ′
Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Clairon 4 ′

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Peter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto Wittmann et al., City of Lörrach (Hrsg.): Lörrach: Landscape - History - Culture . Verlag Stadt Lörrach, Lörrach 1983, ISBN 3-9800841-0-8 , p. 659.
  2. ↑ a b Information on the Peterskirche Lörrach
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung : Need for action on the tower , August 17, 2012
  4. ↑ Südkurier : The roof of St. Peter's Church needs to be renovated , article from July 11, 2018, last accessed on May 31, 2019
  5. ↑ Badische Zeitung: The Lörrach Church of St. Peter may be demolished , article from May 28, 2019, last accessed on May 31, 2019
  6. ^ Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg, Landkreis Lörrach (ed.): Der Landkreis Lörrach , Volume II (Kandern to Zell im Wiesental), Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen 1994, ISBN 3-7995-1354-X , p. 101.
  7. ↑ Concrete light wall in the parish church of St. Peter in Lörrach
  8. ^ Gerhard Moehring : Brief history of the city of Loerrach . Braun, Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 978-3-7650-8347-1 , p. 128.
  9. ↑ References from Fischer & Krämer ( Memento from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 59.8 ″  E