St. Peter (Rommerskirchen)
St. Peter is the Roman Catholic parish church of the municipality of Rommerskirchen in the Rhine district of Neuss . The tower still bears witness to the medieval church. The church location is considered the oldest in the Neuss district dean's office.
history
Archaeological excavations document a wooden sacred building for the 7th century for the current church location, which was replaced by a stone building at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. Around 1200 the church was expanded and the tower that is still present was added. In 1212, Count Lothar von Hochstaden donated the patronage of Knechtsteden Abbey . The patronage was controversial. In 1218 it was given to the abbey again by Count Adolf von Berg and his brother, Bishop Engelbert I of Cologne . The Count of Hochstaden expressly recognized this in 1227. The patronage was sold by the Knechtsteden Abbey around 1320 to the St. Maria ad Gradus monastery in Mainz , which in turn exchanged it for the Andreasstift in Cologne .
The Romanesque church was replaced between 1865 and 1867 by a three-aisled neo - Gothic building, which was built according to a design from 1863 by the Cologne architect Heinrich Nagelschmidt . Only the five-storey tower made of tuff was retained, of which each storey is divided into three fields on each side by vertical bars. The top floor and the octagonal tower are neo-Gothic.
On March 1, 1945, the nave was destroyed during an air raid and replaced in 1950/1951 by a simple new building designed by the Düsseldorf architect Josef Lehmbrock .
literature
- Manfred Becker-Huberti (ed.): Neuss churches. The Catholic churches in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district deanship. Bachem, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-7616-1966-9 .
- Paul Clemen (Ed.): The art monuments of the Neuss district (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Vol. 3, 3). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, pp. 108-109 .
- Hermann Spies : History of the parish church in Rommerskirchen. Herold, Cologne 1936.
Notes and individual references
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 2.2 " N , 6 ° 40 ′ 59.8" E