St. Peter (Heppenheim)
The Catholic parish church of St. Peter in Heppenheim (Bergstraße) is under monument protection standing cultural monument . The church is popularly called the Bergstrasse Cathedral , mainly because of its size .
Building history
The parish church of St. Peter was built from 1900 to 1904. On August 1, 1904 , the Mainz bishop Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein consecrated the church to Saint Peter .
However, the origins of the church are considerably older. A previous building is documented for the year 755, which was probably part of a refuge castle built around 700 by Franks , which extended to today's Great Market . Nothing is known about the appearance of this sacred building. From 773 to 1232 it was under the Abbey of the Lorsch Abbey . Various structural changes were made during this time. The two basement floors of the north tower date from around 1100. As a remnant ( spoil ) from the Romanesque era , a three-sided shield capital of the lower sacristy can be seen. A sculpture of the Mother of God made of sand-lime brick in the north transept dates from the late 13th century. Until 1929 it still stood on a console on the east wall of the rectory. Substantial construction work to expand the church took place until the 15th century.
In 1693 the building was probably badly damaged by the French invasion. In 1698, extensive building activities began again on the church. The tower and choir remained unchanged, but a nave was built to the west. The three naves were given groin vaults on four pillars each. Furthermore galleries were built. During a roof renovation in 1732, which became necessary due to a fire, six hipped roof dwarf houses were integrated into the roof. In 1884 it was decided to rebuild the church. In 1885, the church building association founded especially for this project commissioned Ludwig Becker , who later became the Mainz cathedral builder, to plan the new church. In 1886 he presented his plans for a three-aisled basilica with a transept, a crypt and a monumental west tower in Gothic style. Construction began in 1900. Becker had to change his plans significantly because the medieval tower was to be preserved. The foundation stone was finally laid in 1901. The yellow sandstone used for the construction came partly from the previous building. The red sandstone probably came from the Palatinate.
A separate emergency church was built for the services during the construction period.
Dimensions
- Clear length: 50.85 meters
- Clear width of the transept: 33 meters
- Clear width of the longitudinal building: 28 meters
- Depth of the choir: 11.80 meters
- Depth of the side choirs: 5.12 meters
- Inner height of the central nave: 18.30 meters
- Inner height of the aisles: 8.90 meters
- Inner height under the crossing: 21.31 meters
- External height of the dome: 60.40 meters
- External height of the towers: 49.50 meters
organ
The first organ of St. Peter was a small instrument that was built in 1900 by the organ builder Voigt for the emergency church, which was available as a church service room after the old church was demolished. This instrument was installed in the new church in 1904. Plans for the construction of a large organ by the organ building company Klais (Bonn) could no longer be realized before the war. In the course of the 1200th anniversary, the organ building company Kemper from Lübeck built a new organ. This instrument was dismantled in 1996 and replaced by a new one by the organ builder Heinz Wilbrand. The slider chest instrument has 43 stops on three manuals and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
According to an installation from 1785 , four bells (28, 18, 12 hundredweight and 750 pounds) and the oldest bell, the "Silver Bell", which had come from the Starkenburg, hung in the tower of the mother church.
The newspaper reported on a special event in March 1904 : Brewery director Georg Neff from Heidenheim , a native of Heppenheim, and his wife Anna had donated a big bell, the Anna bell. On March 6th, the 70 hundredweight bell from Hemelingen near Bremen, where it had been cast by bell founder Otto, arrived in Heppenheim. Pulled by eight horses, she was escorted from the train station to the church, where Dr. Engelhardt, who had meanwhile become vicar general. The Anna bell was an excellent work of the bell founder, as various reports prove; Mention should be made of the expert opinion of the diocese of Mainz, Pastor Vogt, from 1904 and the expert opinion of the bell founder Franz Schilling from Apolda from 1942 . The new bell was placed in the new tower, while the old bells had been hung up in the old tower a few weeks earlier.
In 1951 , the parish church of St. Peter received a new bell from the Schilling bell foundry in Heidelberg, which was co-financed by donations from parishioners . In addition to the new Anna bell, there were the Joseph, Marien and Martinus bells.
literature
- Gotthard Münch: "St. Peter in Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse ” . OOVuJ
- Helmut Becker: The stained glass windows in the high choir of St. Peter's Church in detail . OOVuJ
Web links
- The Catholic parish of St. Peter in Heppenheim
- Full bells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaOjSLAagzw
- baroque Petersglocke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1msERQdYo4k
- Annaglocke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxBP03bC_NY
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heppenheim and the Hessian Bergstrasse. hr-online.de, accessed on May 19, 2008
- ↑ Headlines from Bensheim on the 175th anniversary of the "Bergsträßer Anzeiger" 2007. (pdf 8.61 MB) 1904: Consecration of the "Bergstrasse Cathedral". P. 34 , archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 .
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse: Catholic parish church of St. Peter with rectory
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ↑ a b In a brochure available on site in the church without imprint.
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 29.2 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 47.5" E