St. Peter (Konzen)

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Parish Church of St. Peter

St. Peter is the Roman Catholic parish church of Konzen , a district of the city of Monschau in North Rhine-Westphalia . The church is popularly known as the mother church of the Monschau region .

history

Around 1160 a church was built as a Romanesque columned basilica . This was rebuilt in the 15th century with late Gothic elements. In February 1869 it was completely burned down by a lightning strike and was rebuilt shortly afterwards.

During the Second World War , the parish church was destroyed down to the brickwork by shell fire. Reconstruction began in 1949. Between 1952 and 1954, an extension was added to the north side of the nave.

In 2015, the extension was partially dismantled and converted into a community center. The church service room was moved back to the old part of the church and the altar was moved to the old, Gothic choir . The inauguration took place on November 15, 2015.

Furnishing

In the church there is a baptismal font from the 12th century as well as old tombstones and valuable figures of saints. The oldest bell dates from 1166. The stained glass windows are works by Anton Wendling from 1952 to 1955.

  • Baptismal font from the 12th century

  • Plate in the floor in front of the baptismal font

  • Konzen Catholic parish church sculpture on outer wall.jpg

  • inner space

  • Organ, opposite the altar

  • entrance

Bells

A four-part bronze bell rings out from the tower of St. Peter's Church in the corporate group, which was cast in 1955 by the Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen. The row of strikes of the bells is: d '- f' - g '- a'. The bells have the following diameters: 1375 mm, 1156 mm, 1030 mm. 917 mm and weigh together 3700 kg.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish Konzen: First service after the church renovation. In: Aachener Zeitung. November 12, 2015, accessed September 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Bronze plaque on the church
  3. ^ Monschau-Konzen, Catholic Church of St. Peter and Pankratius. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on September 22, 2016 .
  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. 466, 553 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 461, 509 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 9.2 ″  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 8.2 ″  E