St. Peter (Uerdingen)
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St. Peter is a Roman Catholic parish church in Uerdingen am Rhein , today a district of Krefeld . The church, which dates back to the 13th century, was rebuilt in the structure of 1803 after being destroyed in the Second World War . Their patron , the apostle Peter , was also the city patron ; his keys also represent Uerdingen in the coat of arms of the city of Krefeld .
history
Uerdingen belonged to Kurköln . The Petrine Sacrament underlines this connection. The name of the church has been documented since 1285, when, after the sinking of Alt-Uerdingen in the Rhine, the new city was built according to plan and the new parish church was consecrated. A hundred years later, St. Peter was expanded into a three-aisled basilica and provided with the massive west tower, which still characterizes the cityscape today. After a fire in 1463 and after severe storm damage in 1627, the building was renewed.
In 1799, a flood completely destroyed the nave of the church, so that it was subsequently rebuilt in classicist forms as a hall church with a flat barrel vault and a baroque curved roof turret on the choir by 1803 . Three valuable baroque altars came to St. Peter from the secularized Langwaden monastery .
In August 1943, the church went up in flames after a bomb attack. The equipment was also almost completely lost. The ruins were secured, and after the war the reconstruction of the tower and nave began in the pre-war form. The interior corresponds to the barren building ideal of the 1950s.
In 2017, St. Peter received the organ of the St. Francis Church, which had been sold to the Russian Orthodox Church the year before . The instrument made by Karl Göckel (Epfenbach) in 1998 comprises 26 registers on two manuals and a pedal.
Web links
- St. Peter (parish web presence)
- Information about the organ (Goeckel company)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 12.8 " N , 6 ° 39 ′ 1.3" E