St. Petri (Braunschweig)

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St. Petri from the east
Anne Chapel
Weathercock by Bodo Kampmann

St. Petri , also called Petrikirche , was founded in the 12th century as the fourth parish church of the Weichbild old town in Braunschweig . It is located on the street "An der Petrikirche". The parish hall is located on Lange Straße . The Gothic church with a 71 meter high steeple has had a striking copper cock on the spire since 1971.

history

The first modest building fell victim to a city fire in 1256. From 1260 a new basilica was built , of which only the west tower is preserved. At the end of the 13th century, the conversion into a three-aisled Gothic hall church with a choir and 5/8 choir closure began, but without a transept . Around 1400 the Anne and Livinius chapel was added to the south side of the choir. St. Petri has been an Evangelical Lutheran parish church since 1528. After the end of the Thirty Years' War , in 1649, an early baroque high altar was donated to the church by Mette Drösemann. In 1811 the Gothic steeple was replaced by a baroque dome after the steeple was struck by lightning on February 13, 1811 and the top burned out. This adorned the tower until the Second World War . As a replacement for the destroyed bells, St. Petri received a bell from the Aegidienkirche . This was closed as a place of worship in the same year. Another bell was added from the castle church in Salzdahlum after Salzdahlum Castle was demolished during the French occupation.

From 1888 to 1891 the church was renovated in the neo-Gothic style by the city architect Max Osterloh . In 1888, parts of the historical furnishings were removed. Court painter Adolf Quensen repainted the interior.

Damage and use as a storage facility

The tower and interior burned out due to bombing during the Second World War , especially that of October 15, 1944 . From this day the Petrikirche was no longer used as a place of worship, from then on the Petri parish also used the Jakobikirche . After the end of the war, the Petrikirche was used as a depository for ecclesiastical and municipal cultural assets. Below were the stone figures from the facade of the old town hall and parts of the portal of the destroyed district headquarters on the Eiermarkt . The portal was not rebuilt.

reconstruction

The Petrikirche was restored from 1954 to 1959 under the direction of city church building officer Friedrich Berndt . On Reformation Day 1959, the church was rededicated with the participation of the parish priest Robert Theilemann and the provost Otto Jürgens and it was used again regularly for church services. In the 1960s, the interior was recreated. The new pulpit and lectern were made by the sculptor Hans Fleer. Between 1969 and 1971, based on its original condition, the tower was given a pointed spire with a copper cock designed by Bodo Kampmann , which is 3.25 meters high. Since Christmas 1978 the church has had four bells again. The church tower was renovated from 2009 to 2011.

More details about the equipment

The pieces of equipment from the time before the bombing include a brass baptismal font from 1530, a baroque crucifix, an epitaph and pastor's pictures as well as the high altar from 1649 in the side aisle, in which three lost pictures were replaced by modern, symbolic pictures. There is also a figure of Paul from the 16th century and a figure of Peter who served as a pulpit bearer from 1626 to 1888 in the church.

The stained glass windows in the choir date from 1954 and 1962 and were created by Claus Wallner . The side windows show scenes from the lives of Peter and Paul, the windows in the apse refer to the Revelation of John .

The ringing consists of a 1000 kg bell (e '), a 500 kg bell (g sharp'), a 400 kg bell (h ') and a bell that rings in c sharp' 'and weighs 280 kg. All bells come from the Heidelberg bell foundry, bell I from 1978, bells II – IV from 1977.

organ

Weißenborn organ

The first known organ of the Petrikirche comes from an unknown organ builder from the year 1469. It is replaced in 1715 by Johann Andreas Graff from Wolfenbüttel with an instrument with 24 registers (II / P) and transferred to Bettmar. In 1812 Christian Bethmann from Linden built a new work (II / P / 22), which in turn had to give way to an organ by Friedrich Ladegast from Weißenfels in 1892 (III / P / 49). This is rebuilt in 1909 and 1937 (Sander; Dutkowski) and on the bomb night 14./15. October 1944 with the church destroyed. Between 1961 and 1964, Friedrich Weißenborn erected today's organ with mechanical slider chests in two construction phases.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 '
Sif flute 1'
Sesquialtera II
Scharff IV
Krummhorn 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Quintadena 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Pointed 8th'
octave 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 '
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture V-VII
Trumpet 8th'
III Breastwork C – g 3
Quintadena 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 '
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Overtone II
Zimbel III
Sordun 16 '
shelf 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Gedacktpommer 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Mixture IV-VI
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Clarine 4 ′

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Petri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board at the church
  2. ↑ a b c d leaflet of the St. Petri Congregation

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '57.9 "  N , 10 ° 30' 57.8"  E