St. Peter and Paul (Halberstadt)

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Paulskirche after the restoration in 1908

The Church of St. Peter and Paul , often short Paulskirche , was a church in Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt . It stood on the eastern edge of the historic old town north of the Breite Weg . After the church was burned out in the Second World War on April 8, 1945 during the air raid on Halberstadt , the stately ruins were torn down in 1969.

architecture

The church was designed as a three-nave pillar basilica and had two church towers on its west side. Inside, the nave was flat covered. The transept was from a groin vault with precipitated crossing spans. The choir square also had a groin vault. The choir on the east side had a five-eighth closing . It was provided with a ribbed vault on two yokes . In the corner between the south arm of the transept and the choir was a room also spanned with a cross vault. In the north side of the transept there was a simple portal that originally served as access to the cloister . Another portal was arranged on the north side of the aisle near the tower. The main portal was originally on the west side. A double arched arch was remarkable here.

At the western end of the south aisle , near the tower, was the St. Peter's Chapel, which also had a cross vault.

history

The construction of the church went back to the establishment of the collegiate monastery of St. Peter and Paul by Bishop Burchard II around 1083/85. After a period of decay, it was renovated as early as 1122. A city fire in 1179 caused damage. Another damage followed in 1246. This was followed by widening the aisles up to the escape of the transept. The upper part of the church towers was built in the 13th century and was preserved in this form until it was destroyed in the 20th century. From 1363 the church received a new choir, which took the place of the previously existing apse and former side choirs. The new choir was significantly higher than the nave and gave the church the look of a saddle church . The choir was presumably consecrated in 1408. A St. Peter's Chapel was added in the 14th century. The provost office over the monastery was with the Halberstadt cathedral chapter .

The Lutheran Reformation took hold in Halberstadt around 1540 . The St. Pauli monastery remained as a spiritual body. In addition to the Lutheran majority, the collegiate chapter also included some Catholic canons until the 18th century. Disputes between the canons and the Paulskirchengemeinde were settled in a contract in 1709, through which the choir was granted exclusively to the monastery and the rest of the church space to the congregation. The collegiate foundation was abolished in 1810 and the parish in 1812 by the authorities of the Kingdom of Westphalia . The church building then served as a military hospital and store for provisions. A restoration was carried out between 1906 and 1908. The building was then used as a garrison church. The church burned down to the surrounding walls on April 8, 1945 when Halberstadt was bombed in World War II. The baroque organ prospect in the church , originally from the Liebfrauenkirche , was also destroyed. In 1969 the stately ruins were blown up and demolished - despite protests from the population.

literature

  • Adolf Köhler: Restoration of the Paulskirche in Halberstadt. In: Die Denkmalpflege , Volume 11, No. 16 (December 15, 1909), pp. 125–128.
  • Götz Eckardt (editor), Fates of German Monuments in World War II , Volume 1, Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1978. ISBN 3-926642-24-6 , pp. 221–222.
  • Alfred Wendehorst , Stefan Benz: Directory of the secular canon pens of the Reichskirche (= publications of the Central Institute for Franconian Regional Studies and General Regional Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Vol. 35). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1997, ISBN 3-7686-9146-2 , p. 79.
  • Gustav Schmidt : The S. Pauli Abbey . In: Ders .: Document book of the Collegiate donors S. Bonifacii and S. Pauli in Halberstadt . Halle 1881, pp. XXVI – XXXI ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. City map 1912 .
  2. Gustav Schmidt pp. XXVI – XXVII.
  3. ^ Alfred Wendehorst, Stefan Benz: Directory of the secular canon pen of the Reichskirche (= writings of the Central Institute for Franconian Regional Studies and General Regional Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Vol. 35). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1997, ISBN 3-7686-9146-2 , p. 79.
  4. Gustav Schmidt p. XXVI.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 49.1 "  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 21.3"  E