St. Petri chain celebration (Erkeln)

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St. Petri in Ketten, south side

The Catholic parish church St. Petri Kettenfeier is a listed church building in Erkeln , a village in the district of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia belonging to the town of Brakel .

History and architecture

The three-bay baroque hall church was built from 1722 to 1723 with a retracted choir in the 3/8 end. The west portal in the tower is richly designed.

During the extensive interior renovation carried out in 2006, the interior of the church was painted light, capitals and ridges were highlighted in color and the effect of the vaults was enhanced by coloring. The entrances received holy water fonts made of bronze.

Furnishing

In addition to the high altar with the image of Christ on the cross and marbled columns, which was restored in 2006, there are other altars that date from the time of construction, like the magnificent pulpit renovated in 2008 . An epitaph dates from 1747.

Anton Joseph Stratmann

There are three works by the late baroque church painter Anton Joseph Stratmann in the church:

Shrine with severed hand

A mummified human right hand has been kept in a small shrine for centuries. Peter Pieper from the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Düsseldorf University Hospital found that it was the severed body part of a 20- to 40-year-old murdered woman. The hand dates from the time of the embarrassing jurisdiction . It's probably a vital sign ; it was customary to sever a body part from a murdered person and mummify it until the murderer was found, only then was the lifebeat buried. The hand is evidence of medieval jurisdiction.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, p. 155

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 35 ″  E