St. Peter and Paul (Bad Camberg)
| Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul | |
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| place | Bad Camberg , Limburg-Weilburg district , Hesse |
| religion | Roman Catholic |
| Diocese | Diocese of Limburg |
| Church building | |
| design type | Hall church |
| Construction year | 1777-1781 |
| builder | Friedrich Ludwig Sckell |
| Steeple | 49.5 m high west tower |
The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul is a listed church building in Bad Camberg , a town in the Limburg-Weilburg district ( Hesse ).
prehistory
For the first time a St. Peter church in Camberg was mentioned in a document from 1156 . The previous church, also dedicated to St. Dedicated to Peter, it was probably built in 1472. In 1578 the old church tower collapsed. The chronicler, Pastor Philipp Peter Lauer, described this accident: “Then the next morning they found the tower with the bells spread out, lying in common streets, the clockwork smashed, the smallest bell stacked in the big one and was not damaged. Nobody was involved in an accident. "
History and architecture
The oldest part of the current church is the west tower, which has a Gothic core and was built between 1580 and 1581. The nave was built to replace the previous church, which had become damaged in the 18th century and too small for the growing community. The church, a broad hall building with a narrower choir closed on three sides on the outside and round on the inside , was built from 1777 to 1781 according to plans by the Dillenburg building inspector Friedrich Ludwig Sckell under the energetic Camberg pastor Caspar Schmid (1727-1801), whose tombstone is next to the choir room the entrance to the sacristy. The interior of the church was built in plait style, making it one of the few examples of this type of construction in the region. The inner eastern corners are rounded. The ceiling frescoes and medallions were created by the Mainz court painter Joseph Appiani , who also decorated the Franconian pilgrimage church of Vierzehnheiligen .
The Elector Auxiliary Bishop Johann Maria Cuchot d'Herbain , Bishop of Ascalon and Auxiliary Bishop of Trier , consecrated the church on July 15, 1781 in honor of the Apostles Peter and Paul.
The church was extensively refurbished and renovated several times from 1987 to 1995 inside and out. The overpainted Appiani frescoes were uncovered and the original colors and stucco work were restored. In 1995 the Limburg sculptor Karl Matthäus Winter created the new altar and the ambo with images related to the celebration of the Eucharist.
Furnishing
- A mural in the choir with the representation of a larger than life Christ was painted in 1835 by his students Joseph Settegast and Johann Franz Brentano based on a design by Philipp Veit .
- The gallery with the baroque organ front was built from 1779 to 1784 by the Stumm brothers from Sulzbach. The organ was extensively renovated in 2001. The organ can now be played from two gaming tables .
- The stucco mirrored ceiling and ceiling frescoes with scenes from the life of the two church patrons, the Mainz court painter Joseph Appiani .
- A crescent Madonna from around 1525.
- The eternal light around 1657, a traffic light made of chased brass sheet, is a gift from Baron Anna Ursula zu Hohenfeld , née. Metternich-Winnenburg .
- The baptismal font with a baroque base, made from Lahn marble around 1680 , with a chased brass lid and shell back wall.
- A baroque figure of St. Joseph from 1756.
- The Sebastian chandelier from 1748 made of brass bronze, created by Conrad Müller from Mainz.
- Two angels from the Rococo period around 1750 flank the high altar and were made by the Mainz sculptor Joh. Peter Henke.
- The pulpit around 1780, the lay choir stalls and the confessionals were built in classicist forms immediately after the church was built in workshops in Koblenz and Worms.
- The 14 oil paintings of the Stations of the Cross, around 1835, also come from the school of Philipp Veit.
- The four life-size figures, Peter and Paul in the choir, Maria and Josef in the back of the church, were carved from lime wood by the Munich academy professor, Caspar Clemens Ritter von Zumbusch, from 1862 to 1865 .
- The high altar with tabernacle was redesigned in 1938 by the cathedral builder Willy Weyres using old parts.
- The side altars were designed by Franz Josef Krings in 1948 and made from oak by the Camberg master carpenter, Karl Traut.
- The lead-glazed windows were renewed in 1968 using the older medallions that the Frankfurt glass painter J. Droesser had created in 1892.
- During the restoration from 1987 to 1995, the celebration altar and the ambo were erected from Uliano marble by the sculptor Karl Matthäus Winter.
- The pews were renewed in 2001 using the old side panels from 1779.
- On the back wall of the nave there are epitaphs that are reminiscent of important Camberg families; The early baroque memorial stone belonging to the von Hohenfeld family is particularly worth seeing .
organ
From the organ, which was built between 1779 and 1784 by the workshop of the organ builder Stumm from Rhaunensulzbach , only the organ prospectus remains . As was often the case at this time, the whole organ work is built into the parapet , which is drawn forward accordingly in the middle part. The organ was rebuilt several times, most recently in 2001 by the organ building company Förster and Nicolaus from Lich. The organ has two manuals, game tables on the upper and lower gallery, with 1812 pipes, 110 of which are visible in the prospectus, 234 wooden pipes (the largest 5.14 m and the smallest 8 mm) and also six bells.
Bells
Five bells hang in the 49.5 m high church tower, which was also a tower of the former city wall . The oldest was cast after the First World War in 1922 and is named Maria Bell with a diameter of 120 cm and a weight of 1200 kilograms. After World War II , in 1950, four more bells were cast. The mechanical tower clock was purchased in 1880 and is still wound by hand every day.
| No. | Surname | Casting year |
Foundry, casting location |
Nominal ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Weight (kg) |
Diameter (mm) |
inscription |
| 1 | Christ the King | 1950 | 1750 | 1460 | |||
| 2 | Maria | 1922 | 1200 | 1290 | |||
| 3 | Peter and Paul | 1950 | 700 | 1090 | |||
| 4th | Joseph | 1950 | 550 | 970 | |||
| 5 | Catherine | 1950 | 370 | 860 |
literature
- Heinz Willi Peuser: parish church St. Peter and Paul, Kreuzkapelle and Hohenfeldtkapelle zu Camberg. Study of art history with inventory of historical monuments (European Hochschriften. Series 28, Art History 5), Bern / Frankfurt a. M. 1975. ISBN 3-261-01598-5
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Hessen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966
- Limburg Bell Book. Bells and chimes in the Diocese of Limburg. Foersch, Hubert, Limburg 1997
- Church leader parish church of St. Peter and Paul. Haubrich, Werner and Christoph Bad Camberg 2003
- Kercheweg Bad Camberg. Publisher Pastoral Room Bad Camberg. Thies, Olaf Bad Camberg
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pastoral area Bad Camberg - Parish Church St. Peter and Paul ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Catholic parish church St. Peter and Paul - renovation of the church tower 2017
- ↑ Nassauische Neue Presse of January 11, 2017, author Petra Hackert: Church in Bad Camberg - the church tower of the parish church must be renovated for half a million
- ↑ Website “Kath. Parish of St. Peter and Paul Bad Camberg ” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 121 .
- ↑ History ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Church guide parish church St. Peter and Paul Bad Camberg
- ↑ History of church tower clock and bells
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 54 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 1 ″ E