St. Peter (mountain)

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St. Peter (mountain), bell tower and portal

St. Peter is a Roman Catholic parish church in Berg , a district of Mechernich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

St. Peter (mountain), high altar

The church is dedicated to St. Apostle Peter consecrated and entered in the list of architectural monuments in Mechernich . The Achermer mill belongs to the Berg parish.

location

The parish church of St. Peter is located on Gemünder Straße (Kreisstraße 10) in the northern part of Berg.

history

The place Berg was first mentioned in a document dated July 1, 699. In the deed, Irmina von Oeren gave Willibrord and his Echternach Abbey the villa montis , as Berg was then called. Perhaps this estate, to which Berg Castle goes back, was connected to a small church at that time . Perhaps this was St. Peter consecrated, but this is not certain.

In the 10th century it was doubted whether the village of Berg is really owned by the Echternach Abbey, but these disputes were resolved in 997 by Emperor Otto III. settled by confirming Berg as the property of Echternach Abbey. At that time, a second abbey, St. Willibrord church was built.

In the Liber valoris of 1308, Berg is listed as a parish in the Deanery Zülpich, with St. Willibrord stated. In the update of the Liber valoris from 1510, the parish patron is St. Peter. In the visitation protocols of 1550 and 1559 there are reports of two parish churches in Berg. In fact, despite the small size of the village, there were two independent parishes in Berg, one of which was a parish church dedicated to St. Willibrord, the other to St. Consecrated Peter. In 1582 the two parishes were in union , that is, they were managed together, but purely legal point they persisted. It was not until 1686 that the two parishes were merged into one. The reason was that the parish church of St. Willibrord had become dilapidated and had to be closed.

During the French period , Berg came to the newly founded diocese of Aachen . In 1808 the ancient parish was dissolved and assigned as a branch to the parish of Eicks . This was not reversed until October 1, 1836, since then Berg has been an independent parish again. In 1825 the parish came back to the Archdiocese of Cologne, and since 1930 it has belonged to the re-established Diocese of Aachen.

Building history

The parish church of St. Willibrord was located in the middle of the village, it was probably built in the 11th century. In 1686 it fell into disrepair, but was rebuilt in 1715. In 1883 the church building was finally sold and no longer used for church services.

The parish church of St. Peter, which was probably the older of the two and perhaps goes back to a church building from the 7th century, stood on the site of the current church. It became unusable in the 1820s, which meant that the service had to be temporarily relocated to the Willibrodus Church. In 1864 the old St. Peter's Church was demolished and replaced by the current building. The new building was built between 1864 and 1866 according to plans by architect Lambert Geller from Kommern . The solemn church consecration was on August 3, 1867.

Grenade fire in 1945 as a result of the Second World War damaged the structure. By 1959 they had been fixed and a new sacristy had been built, the plans for it came from Werner Geyer from Mechernich.

Building description

St. Peter is a single-nave and three-bay hall church in neo -Gothic style with a retracted, five-sided closed choir in the east and a bell tower in front in the west.

Furnishing

Inside there is a simple neo-Gothic interior from the second half of the 19th century with a high altar , two side altars, pews and stations of the cross. The stained glass windows in the choir were created in 1930 by an unknown artist, the nave windows are works by Walther Hugo Brenner from 1967. The organ has 13 stops on a pneumatic action . It was made in 1930 by organ builder Christian Breuer from Zülpich.

Pastor

The following priests have worked as pastors in the parish of St. Peter:

from ... to Surname
1909-1933 Karl Burchard
1933-1953 Matthias Winzen
1953-1976 Paul Wirtz
1976-2002 Heinrich Jumpertz
Since 2002 Erik Pühringer

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 545.
  2. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 545 f.
  3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 546.
  4. ^ Mechernich-Berg, Catholic Church of St. Peter. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on December 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (Ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 545.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 7.4 "  N , 6 ° 35 ′ 34.8"  E