St. Peter (Spellen)
The church Sankt Peter in Spellen is a Gothic pseudo-basilica , consisting of a central nave made of tuff stone from the 14th century and two side aisles made of brick from the 15th century of the oldest parish churches on the right bank of the Rhine.
Previous buildings
Spellen was first mentioned in a document in 785/86 in the “Codex aureus” of the Echternach monastery . From the 9th century there was probably a single-nave wooden church. A single-nave Romanesque church was built in the 11th century . Remnants of it are present in the foundation of today's church tower.
Today's building
Around the middle of the 14th century, a new Gothic hall church was built , which today forms the central nave of the church. The church received a high, pointed tower. In the 15th century, the church interior was expanded into a pseudo basilica by adding two brick aisles.
After a fire in 1771, the church had to be restored. The main nave was given a baroque , flat coffered ceiling, some of which is still visible today above the neo-Gothic vault in the roof truss that was drawn in in 1871. The Anholter altar carver Nadorp made a baroque altar, of which only the 19th century colored and originally white figures of the apostles Peter and Paul are preserved in today's church.
In 1848 the church began to be redesigned in neo-Gothic form. In 1871 major repairs were carried out. The Romanesque tent roof of the tower, which was restored after the fire in 1771, was replaced by a new Gothic tower spire 21 meters high. At the same time, the Christian Claren company in Sieglar delivered two new bronze bells. In the years 1890 to 1891 the restoration and expansion by Wilhelm Sültenfuß took place : by adding two yokes and thus the construction of a north aisle. In addition to the neo-Gothic vaulting of the main nave, the church was extended by two yokes in the north aisle and one yoke in the south. The church received the neo-Gothic high altar that has been preserved to this day . The neo-Gothic Way of the Cross was purchased in 1893. In 1907 the side chapel and sacristy were added by the architect Hermann Merl from Wesel .
After it was destroyed by artillery fire at the Allies' “Rhine crossing” in 1945, it was rebuilt from 1948 to 1953 with an extension to the south aisle. The location of the new organ, built by the Seifert company in Kevelaer , was relocated to the south-eastern side. The two side chapels were not rebuilt. The connecting opening between the tower and the main nave was enlarged and the choir windows redesigned.
In the 1970s, the sanctuary was redesigned according to the guidelines of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council .
The last structural change so far took place in 2002. The floor in the choir area was changed to the 8/8 end of the choir, a confessional room was set up in the south aisle and the baptismal font with the font from the 17th century was moved to the tower area.
organ
The organ was built in 1955 by the organ builder Romanus Seifert u. Son (Kevelaer) built. The instrument has 18 registers (1,162 pipes ) on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are electro-pneumatic ( cone chest ).
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
graveyard
Until 1968 the church was surrounded by the cemetery. This was dissolved and laid out on a new area on Mehrumer Straße.
Individual evidence
- ↑ bischof-nikolaus.net, Marienkirche in Wesel , about the architect Hermann Merl
- ↑ → http://www.katholische-kirche-voerde.de/st-peter/wir-ueber-uns/kirche/PDF on the organ
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 36.1 ″ N , 6 ° 36 ′ 49.3 ″ E