St. Peter (Rheinberg)

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View over the market square to the Catholic Church of St. Peter (2012)
View from the organ loft into the interior of St. Peter (2014)
Choir with illuminated high altar

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter is in the center of the town of Rheinberg , east of the market square, on the Lower Rhine in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Its history goes back to the beginning of the 12th century, today's Gothic -style building was built at the end of the same. The sacred building consecrated to St. Peter belongs to the Deanery Xanten in the diocese of Münster .

history

The Catholic Church was first mentioned in a document in 1106, which regulated its transfer to the St. Kunibertstift in Cologne by Archbishop Friedrich I. von Schwarzenburg . At the end of the 12th century, a new, single-nave tuff stone building was built in the late Romanesque style. From 1392 a lengthy renovation followed, influenced by the Gothic , while a choir with hallway and sacristy, based on the Düsseldorf St. Lambertus Church , and side aisles were added. The nave was raised and vaulted. The west tower was attached to the church during the renovation work that lasted until the end of the 15th century. This was damaged by fire in 1567 and only rebuilt in 1637. Further repairs were carried out on the church from 1843 to 1845 and on the tower in 1885, as well as repairs after the Second World War from 1945 to 1951.

Description and equipment

The three-aisled basilica with its retracted, late Romanesque, five-storey west tower is made of both tuff and brick . The choir windows are by Friedrich Stummel , 1890–1892, and Egbert Lammers , 1954–1962. The high altar consists of two late Gothic carved altars , united in the neo-Gothic style in 1845 according to a design by Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner : Above the Passion Shrine from Antwerp around 1520, below it Brussels Apostle shrines from around 1440. These included eleven panel paintings that are now separated , also located in St. Peter's Church. Also worth mentioning is the lavishly carved Baroque pulpit from 1701 and the Lower Rhine Pietà, a wooden baptistery from around 1500.

organ

Weimbs organ behind historical prospectus

The original organ prospectus comes from the Stumm brothers and is dated to 1769. In 1967 the instrument was redesigned by the Walcker company . In 2009 a new organ from Weimbs Orgelbau with 21 stops on two manuals and pedal was installed, whereby the old exterior was retained.

I main work C – a 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Idleness 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Slack douce 4 ′
7th Salicional 4 ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
9. Mixture V 1'
10. Cornet III (from f 0 ) 4 ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
12. Clairon 4 ′
II breastwork C – a 3
13. Hollow pipe 8th'
14th Slack travers 8th'
15th Principal 4 ′
16. Fifth 3 ′
17th flute 2 ′
18th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
19th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
20th Sub bass 16 ′
Principal Bass (No. 2) 8th'
Covered bass (No. 3) 8th'
Octave bass (No. 5) 4 ′
21st trombone 16 ′
Trumpet (No. 11) 8th'
Clairon (No. 12) 4 ′

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments of the monument area no. 2 "Stadtkern Rheinberg". (PDF; 101 kB) Stadt Rheinberg, p. 9 , accessed on March 2, 2012 .
  2. ^ Rheinberg Anna and Joachim on their travels }
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kappel: Maria belongs in the center of the church. Diocese of Münster , May 14, 2006, accessed on March 2, 2012 .
  4. ^ Rheinberg, St. Peter - New organ in historical guise. Weimbs Orgelbau, November 29, 2009, accessed on July 18, 2017 .
  5. ^ Rheinberg, St. Peter: New building in a historical guise. Diocese of Münster, November 29, 2009, accessed on July 18, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 45.3 "  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 14.4"  E