St. Petri (Mühlhausen)
The Protestant St. Peter's Church (also known as St. Peter's Church) in Muehlhausen ( Thuringia ) is a 1356 finished and under monument protection standing monument . The church was built by the Teutonic Order between 1352 and 1356.
history
The origin of the St. Petri Church in Mühlhausen goes back to the year 1250 . It is said to have been built as a thank you chapel for the victory of the Mühlhäuser over the Counts of Regenstein and Hohenstein on an upstream city wall. This is indicated by the Romanesque church portal on the north side and an outer wall protruding into the nave. The size of the windows in the north aisle also suggests a late Romanesque building.
From 1348 to 1350 the town's plague cemetery was established around the church . A wooden cemetery chapel next to the church existed until the 19th century. At the urging of the residents of the "Petriviertel", the St. Petri Church was enlarged from 1352 to 1356 and on October 8, 1356, Archbishop Gerlach of Mainz put it back into service by document. The church was under the Teutonic Order as a branch of the Marienkirche. In the Mühlhausen town fire in 1422, the vault of the church collapsed. It was replaced by a flat ceiling. After the Reformation, the church was elevated to the status of an Evangelical Parish Church. Then in 1577 it received a two-storey extension from parts of the demolished St. John's Church on the west side. The sacristy was topped up with a half-timbered tower. The tower has a conspicuous needle-shaped tip.
Furnishing
Altar and pulpit
The altar and the pulpit of the church were created by the carpenter Ackermann 1746–1748. Descendants of the Ackermann joinery are still active in the community today. The baroque altar is flanked by Peter and Paul. In the center there is a communion scene . Christ himself is present three times in the structure of the altar: directly at the altar table as crucified, in the center as the one who institutes the Lord's Supper and in the crown as the risen one. The altar was restored in 1980, the side wings were removed in favor of the overall appearance of the interior of the church.
Baptismal font
The font dates from 1352-1356 and is considered the oldest font in Mühlhausen.
Windows and vaulted ceiling
From 1893 to 1895, the entire church was redesigned in the neo-Gothic style based on a design by the architect Gottfried Koethe. The double galleries were removed, the westwork completely rebuilt, the roof straightened and glazed colored tiles. In 1904 new choir windows from the Berlin glass painting workshops were installed.
Bells
The oldest bell that is still in use today dates from 1482. In 2001, after the cast iron 2.4 t bell fell, the community was able to have two new bronze bells cast in the Lauchhammer bell foundry near Dresden. The medieval belfry has been restored to its original functionality after investigations. This means that the St. Petri Church today has a bell tower with four bells:
- 340 kg - prayer bell new
- 760 kg - St. Peter's Bell 1482
- 2400 kg - reminder and death bell from 1927
Other equipment
As a result of the First World War , the North Chapel received a memorial for the victims of the war. This was created by the most famous Mühlhausen sculptor Wilhelm Krause . At the time, the memorial was considered very courageous in its war protest and shows the "indignant Christ" in front of a plaque with the names of fallen soldiers. Käthe Kollwitz expressed herself very praise for this work of art.
organ
The Mühlhausen organ builder Christoph Wender created an organ for the Petrikirche in 1713 . The organ was destroyed by later renovations and finally removed. Today there is a Rühlmann organ from 1910 in the church, which was extensively restored from 2009 to 2010. Meaningful is a native of the year 1833/34 Biedermeier - Prospekt the organ builder Schulze from Paulinzella that temporarily had her office in Mulhouse.
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- Coupling : II / I (also as super octave coupling), I / P, II / P
Photos of the interior
Church interior
altar
Baptismal font
See also
List of churches in Mühlhausen
Web links
literature
- Ernst Badstübner : The old Mühlhausen. Art history of a medieval city . Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7338-0055-9 , pp. 205 .
- Mühlhäuser Articles, Issue 32. Editor: Mühlhausen History and Monument Preservation Association in Zusarb. with Mühlhausen museums and Mühlhausen city archives.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on disposition ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 38.9 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 0.2 ″ E