St. Peter (Recklinghausen)

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St. Peter from the west

The Church of St. Peter is the main Roman Catholic church in Recklinghausen . It is located in the center not far from the historic market square. St. Peter has been a provost church since 1931 .

Building history and description

The basic structure of the church consecrated to the Apostle Peter dates back to 1247 and replaces a building that was destroyed in a city ​​fire . This Romanesque work could be excavated; it already had a stone predecessor itself. The church, which was built in 1247, is a two - bay, three - aisled late Romanesque hall with a transept that is only thicker than the nave in width. The choir is said to have been rectangular and flanked by two towers until the late Gothic extension of the church in the early 16th century by the Coesfeld builder Henric de Suer . This component was abandoned in favor of the two-bay extension with a directly adjoining 5/8 end . The sacristy is located on the north side of the recently closed extension. The inside looks like a five-bay hall church . The domed vaults are supported by massive round pillars, these are closed off by surrounding reliefs (capital) in baroque form; the appearance of the original rectangular pillars can be seen, among other things, from the pillars of the Romanesque transept. One of these rectangular supports collapsed in 1716 and carried away the vaults that weighed down on it. In the older part there are simple ribbed vaults , in the late Gothic part there are star vaults .

The Romanesque tower was restored after being damaged in the 17th century and given a 72 m high baroque dome. There is a two-story extension on the south side of the tower; the lower floor, half in the ground, was formerly used as an ossuary, the upper one was / is the two-bay St. Michael's Chapel. The ossuary is a space covered by less pronounced, rather flat groin vaults. The four vaults are grouped around a central column made of extremely roughly hewn stone. From the outside, the extension from 1523 is emphasized by a gable, the actual Romanesque transept is only accentuated on the south side by its own gable; on the north side it is integrated into the roof of the nave. Except for the gables, which are structured by blind arcades , the exterior is kept very simple. The Romanesque south portal, which is considered remarkable, is an exception. The windows of the Gothic extensions are provided with tracery , the Romanesque old building only shows such in the window of the south transept.

In 1944 the vaults of the nave and the tower hood suffered severe damage from bombs ; Although the bombing did not target the old town but the northern part of Recklinghausen, the comparatively few bombs damaged the historically most valuable building. The north face was also badly hit, it "got out of balance". In immediate post-war images of the reconstruction that has just begun, the area adjacent to the tower shows a breach that extends to the ground. Pre-war photos show a large Gothic window with tracery in the north transept instead of the two round-arched Romanesque windows that are there today. The sacristy was "destroyed".

  • The south side

  • The north side: sacristy and Gothic part

  • The north side: Romanesque part

  • The choir room

Furnishing

St. Peter: interior
The Petrus Bell by Gerhard van Wou from 1500
  • A so-called master builder's head is embedded in the front wall of the Romanesque transept, also in the transept a Madonna and a representation of St. Lucia , the latter are both Gothic.
  • The sacrament house on the north east wall of the extension is attributed to Berndt Bunickmann's workshop.
  • Statues in the nave: above the north exit St Johannes Nepomuk and St Joseph, under the organ St. Peter and St. Paul (with historical version); a representation of an angel armed with a lance at the stairway to the Michael's Chapel. Another crucifix on the north wall.
  • Baptismal font from 1400 made of Baumberger sandstone on a narrow base, the basin adorned with a round arch frieze, recently replaced the baptismal font (1630), which now serves as a holy water basin. The Gothic piece was handed over to the Vestische Museum in 1927 and returned to the Church of St. Peter as part of its restructuring.
  • Baroque high altar with two paintings from the Rubens School.
  • The painting on the west wall of the nave also comes from the Rubens School and shows the investiture of a bishop.
  • There are two paintings in the Michaelskapelle: a picture of Emmaus (with a fish and an apple on the table) and an adoration by St. three Kings; also two statues: Mother Anna with Maria (no self-third!) and a female figure donating a coat to a poor man. A sacred museum has been set up under the Michaelskapelle in the former ossuary . The floor of the Michaels Chapel is covered with historicist colorful ornamental tiles, two clay relief tiles are also there.
  • The Way of the Cross is historical, the depiction of the cross in the form of a rope is worth mentioning .

  • Church tower, next to it the Icon Museum

  • middle nave with high altar

  • The old font in the room under the tower

  • Sacrament house

1944 Christ-corpus destroyed in the war, provost church Recklinghausen

organ

The organ was built in 2005 by the organ construction company Klais (Bonn). The slider chest instrument has 44 stops on three manual works and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Rückpositiv C – a 3
Drone 8th'
Travers doldrums 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Piccolo 1'
Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C – a 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Concert flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 2 ′
Cornet V 8th'
Mixture V 2 ′
Trumpet 8th'
III Récit expressif C – a 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Flûte harmonique 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Viole de Gambe 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
Flûte octaviante 4 ′
Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octavine 2 ′
Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Plein Jeu IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Basson 16 ′
Trompette harmonique 8th'
Hautbois 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
Pedals C – g 1
Sub bass 32 ′
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P; various sub and super octave couplings

Bells

The provost church has a total of eight bronze bells in its bell tower. The bells II-IV form one of only two completely preserved three-part chimes by the famous Dutch bell founder Geert van Wou from Kampen.

In 1948, the Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen delivered three new bells for the St. Peter Provost Church in Recklinghausen to complement the ringing with the three Van Wou bells that had survived the war undamaged, the bells I, V and VI. The company Otto from Bremen-Hemelingen was commissioned with the casting because it was said that they had already completed several chimes by the bell founder Gerhard van Wou with good sound results, which cannot be determined and was probably based on a misunderstanding.

Bells VII and VIII hang in the tower lantern and strike the time.

No. Name / patron Nominal diameter Weight Casting year Caster
1 Clemens August as ° + 2 1910 mm 4,500 kg 1948 Foundry Otto Bremen-Hemelingen
2 St. Peter b ° + 7 1720 mm 3380 kg 1500 Geert van Wou
3 St. John c '+ 11 1530 mm 2440 kg 1500 Geert van Wou
4th Maria it '+ 15 1210 mm 1050 kg 1500 Geert van Wou
5 Ludgerus ges' + 3 1064 mm 780 kg 1948 Foundry Otto Bremen-Hemelingen
6th Michael as' + 3 946 mm 500 kg 1948 Foundry Otto Bremen-Hemelingen
7th Quarter-hour bell G'' 526 mm 60 kg 1986 Foundry Petit & Edelbrock Gescher
8th Hour bell b '' 450 mm 90 kg 1986 Foundry Petit & Edelbrock Gescher

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Siekmann: Recklinghausen in old views . 1976, ISBN 978-90-288-4721-7 .
  2. ^ The architectural monuments in Westphalia - war damage and reconstruction by Karl E. Mummenhoff. Ms. Wilh. Ruhfus Verlagbuchhandlung Dortmund 1968.
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on the municipality's website.
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 85, 1387, 334 to 337, 544 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . S. 556, here in particular pp. 269 to 299, 348, 349, 502 .
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells . 2019, p. 190, 334 .
  7. ↑ Christoph Thüer: 500 years of van Wou bells in the provost church of St. Peter in Recklinghausen . Ed .: Catholic Propsteigemeinde St. Peter Recklinghausen. Recklinghausen 2000, p. 47 .
  8. ^ Catholic Propsteigemeinde St. Peter Recklinghausen: The bells of the Propsteikirche St. Peter Recklinghausen. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 54.9 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 52.6 ″  E