St. Peter and Paul (Koblenz)
The parish church of St. Peter and Paul is a Catholic church in Koblenz . The neo-Gothic basilica in the Pfaffendorf district was completed in 1903. It goes back to previous buildings that are documented until the early 14th century. It bears the patronage of the Apostles Peter and Paul .
history
A first Catholic church building was documented in 1310 in Pfaffendorf. In 1325 it received first of all St. John as patron, later the apostles Peter and Paulus . The Romanesque church was largely destroyed in the severe flooding of the Rhine in 1784 . In the following year, a classicist hall was built on the preserved church tower , which presumably dates back to the 12th century . After the number of inhabitants rose sharply, it was decided to build a new building and the old church was demolished in 1901.
The current church was built from 1901 to 1903 according to plans by the Koblenz architect Leopold Schweitzer in the neo-Gothic style. During the heaviest air raid on Koblenz on November 6, 1944, the church suffered severe damage and burned down completely. The reconstruction took place in the 1950s, the roof and spire were less steep than originally rebuilt. During this time, the undestroyed monastery church of the Bethlehem monastery served as an emergency church . Between 1972 and 1974 new wooden ceilings were installed in the main nave and new vaults in the side aisles. An exterior renovation took place from 1982 to 1991, during which all windows were replaced. In 2005 the parish was given two new bronze bells , the following year another bell and a new tower clock . The last interior renovation took place between 2005 and 2009, when the church was repainted and the electrical installations were renewed.
Construction and equipment
Outside
The parish church of St. Peter and Paul is an east - facing three-aisled basilica in the neo-Gothic style. The building made of light sandstone has a mighty four-storey west tower with a suggested transept . The western front facing the Rhine is dominated by three richly decorated portals . There is also an entrance on the long sides. A tympanum is attached above the central portal , which shows the relief figures of Christ between Peter and Paul. The remaining exterior of the church is defined by buttresses .
Inside
The nave is five bays long. The side aisles end in low polygonal apses without windows, the central nave in a high 5/8 choir , each of which is adjoined by a low side chapel . The interior is defined by round pillars with leaf capitals , each of which has a service in front of the central nave , which carries the belt arch of the wood-covered cross - ribbed vault . The side aisles have a mighty ribbed vault. The walls in the nave are structured by three-part blind triforias over a horizontal cornice. On the west side, a spiral staircase swinging three-dimensionally into the room with columned arcades leads up to the organ gallery . The tracery windows have three lanes in the central nave and two lanes in the side aisles.
Only an octagonal baptismal font with a wooden cover, designed as a tower roof with buttresses, pinnacles and triangular gables , crowned by a cross, has been preserved in the apse from the original furnishings . The neo-Gothic altarpiece was bought in 1987 from the parish church of St. Simon and Juda in Graach on the Moselle and then restored. The five - part shrine - like attachment is provided with gold-plated eyelashes and pegs. In the center above a crucifix there is an eight-sided tower structure. Flanking this are the newly created figures of Saints Peter and Paul as well as Wendelinus and Apollonia .
The three portals of the church
High altar with altarpiece
Baptismal font
organ
After the destruction of the war in 1959, an organ was built by the organ building company Weise from Plattling , but it was only partially realized according to the desired plans. This was completely redesigned in 1979 using old parts on the gallery so that it harmonizes architecturally with the large window in the tower. The instrument has 27 registers (1838 pipes ) on two manuals and a pedal . The key actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical.
Bells
In the bell tower there are four bells with the tones D flat, F sharp, G sharp and B sharp.
Parish community
St. Peter and Paul is part of the " Parish Community Koblenz right side of the Rhine" founded in October 2005, which also includes the Assumption of Mary on the Asterstein , St. Nicholas in Arenberg , St. Aldegundis in Arzheim , the Holy Cross Church in Ehrenbreitstein , St Maximin in Horchheim , St. Pankratius in Niederberg and St. Martin on the Pfaffendorfer Höhe belong.
Monument protection
The parish church of St. Peter and Paul is a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Pfaffendorf on Emser Strasse .
The parish church of St. Peter and Paul has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .
See also
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
- Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The profane monuments and the suburbs , Munich Berlin 1954, (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Rheinland-Pfalz, first volume).
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Organs in Koblenz
- ^ Parish community Koblenz right side of the Rhine in: Diocese of Trier
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 54.2 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 18.7 ″ E