St. Peter (Waldhausen)

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St. Peter's Church

The former Catholic parish church of St. Peter is in the district Waldhausen in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Nicodemstraße 30, 32,34,36,40. It has been used as a climbing church since 2010.

The building was built in 1932/33. It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach on June 2, 1987 under No. N 008 .

location

The property is located in the Waldhausen district at the intersection of Waldnieler Strasse and Nicodemstrasse and immediately south of the former Waldhausen town hall.

architecture

It is an axially symmetrical system of cubic structures under flat roofs and faced with red-colored clinker bricks. The west- facing church is flanked by two L-shaped annex buildings protruding from its main facade . The resulting courtyard closes off from Nicodemstraße with brick walls and a nine-step staircase made of basalt lava block steps.

The three-aisled basilica with an almost square floor plan (20 m × 19 m) has deep side aisles. In the east, a mighty tower complex , consisting of a central tower the width of the central nave and in front of the lower corner towers in front of the aisles, marks the transition to the forecourt. The space remaining between the corner towers is filled by a cylindrical round tower, which serves as a baptistery . The mighty cross originally mounted here is missing today. To the west, the side aisles encompass the church and form the sacristy behind the straight choir closure . The monumental building is faced with clinker bricks. The side aisles have seven round windows framed by profiled yellow ceramic frames, the top aisle of the central nave each have three semicircular windows , between which flush masonry arches are inserted to structure the wall.

The central tower is on each side of the façade two superimposed arched openings in two storeys, which also with the same ceramic - jambs are taken. The upper openings, belonging to the bell chamber, have sound hatches . The flat roof of the tower has a gilded sphere with a halo and a Greek cross . The forward side towers are closed except for small, high rectangular stair windows on the side.

The entrances to the church with heavy bronze doors have profiled ceramic frames and are reached via a staircase made of five basaltic lava block steps. A round window above the baptistery illuminates the nave. The sacristy also illuminates a round window in the central axis of the church, framed with yellow profiled ceramic walls. The interior repeats the basic cubic forms. The portals arranged in the corner towers lead to a rectangular, barrel-vaulted hall with a prayer chapel. A few sloping steps lead to the initially very low central nave overbuilt by the organ gallery. The sloping gallery floor is drawn very far into the church.

The low aisles are supported on their respective sides of the central nave by pillars that are faced with ceramic tiles. The central nave ceiling is supported by mighty profiled beams. The semicircular windows of the central nave show clear glazing, while the round windows of the aisles have artificial glazing. The back wall of the choir is adorned with an 8.5 m high Petrus mosaic by Anton Wendling . His window designs for the aisles (1933) show modified cross motifs. The figural round window above the baptistery (Trinity window) was designed in 1946 according to a design by Josef Höttges.

Annex buildings: Entry on (September 8, 2006)

The two two-storey annex buildings connect to the eastern part of the church building via narrow intermediate structures and follow its strictly cubic design. They are clinkered and also have flat roofs. The intermediate tracts accommodate side rooms and are each characterized by a centrally mounted round window framed by ceramic walls. The other right-angled openings are axially symmetrical, most of the windows and doors have been renewed.

The flanking annex buildings originally housed the apartments for pastors and chaplains, organist, sexton, administration and the like. Ä. on. They show axially arranged right-angled window openings of different formats with renewed window frames. The house entrances can be reached via brick staircases with renewed basalt lava coverings. The northern annex building has three floors facing the street 'Am Mevissenhof'.

The church of St. Peter with the flanking annex buildings, the accompanying brick walls of the outdoor facilities and the staircases are important for human history and for cities and settlements. For the preservation and use of the property there are scientific, in particular architectural-historical, local / urban-historical and social-historical as well as urban planning reasons. The complex is worthy of protection as a monument for urban, architectural, historical and socio-historical reasons .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Westhoff: Climbing to Crosses. Climbers find a stop in a former church in Mönchengladbach. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from December 24, 2017, p. 68.
  2. ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach , as of November 16, 2018, accessed on July 8, 2020.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 44.9 "  N , 6 ° 24 ′ 40.6"  E