St. Petrus (Lüftelberg)

Choir of St. Peter

View from the north

West tower of St. Peter

Churchyard of St. Peter

St. Petrus is a Catholic parish church in Lüftelberg , a district of Meckenheim ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The church is a protected cultural monument . The parish of St. Petrus forms with St. Jakobus Ersdorf , St. Johannes Meckenheim, St. Michael Merl and St. Martin Rheinbach- Wormersdorf the parish community Meckenheim in the district dean of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

history

Already in Franconian times there was a castle with a castle chapel in Lüftelberg, which was dedicated to St. Peter was consecrated . The oldest parts of today's church are the basement of the west tower and the walls of the nave . The tower substructure made of quarry stones with flush corner blocks made of trachyte will be built into the 11th / 12th. Dated century.

After 1350 the choir and the forechoir yoke were completed and then the nave with a vault was built.

Holy Lüfthildis

As a pilgrimage church, St. Peter in Lüftelberg is a testimony to the holy Lüfthildis . The Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, Ferdinand of Bavaria , had the remains of St. Lüfthildis raised in 1623 . On June 1, 1623, the grave of St. Lüfthildis was opened and the bones were solemnly raised. After that, the Archbishop of Cologne was at the site of the grave, a high grave of marble building. In the 17th century, the worship of Lüfthildis increased sharply and Lüftelberg gained national importance as a place of pilgrimage.

When the church was restored around 1970, a memorial plaque was set into the ground at the site of the high grave and the high grave was given a new place as an altar in the chapel next to the sacristy . The bones of the saints are now in a stele above the main altar.

organ

At the beginning of the 19th century, the founder of the Klais organ building workshop , Johannes Klais (1852–1925), who was born in Lüftelberg, installed a new organ in the church. The old baroque organ front was preserved. It bears the Opus 1530.

I main work
Reed flute	8th'
Principal	4 ′
Slack travers	2 ′
Mixture IV
Larigot	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
Cromorne	8th'

II breastwork
Wooden dacked	8th'
Reed flute	4 ′
Principal	2 ′
Carillon II

pedal
Sub bass	16 ′
Pommer	8th'

Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

Bells

There are 4 bells in the tower of St. Peter.

No.	Surname	Casting year	Caster	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg)	Percussive ( HT -¹ /₁₆ )	inscription
1	Maria	1514	Johan van Alfter	1165	850	f ¹ +7	MARIA I ASK IN DE EIR GOTZ LUIDEN I WHO HUIRD THE TWO THE DUVEL VER DRIVEN I JOHAN VAN ALFTER GOUIS IM IAER UNS MR MCCCCCXIIII
2	Peter	1538	Johan van Collen	1027	700	g ¹ +1	PETRUS I AM TZO GOTZ DEINST ROIFFEN I BLIX DONER WILL DRIVEN I DE DODEN I DESCRIBE JOHAN VAN COLLEN GUIS ME ANNO D [omini] MVCXXXVIII
3	Joseph and Lüfthildis	1791	Willibrord Stoky	925	500	g ¹ +7	IOSEPHUS CLEMENS, SINGULARIS BENEFACTOR, ET AUGUSTA ELISABETHA DE LOMBECK, NATA DE DIENHEIM PATRINI SOLI DEO, IN HONOREM SANCTI IOSEPHI ET BEATAE LUEFTILDIS ANNO 1791*
4th	Lüfthildis	2013	Eifeler bell foundry Mark, Brockscheid	860	380	b ¹ +7	St. Lüfthildis * patron saint stand by us * The real thing shines through time * Lüftelberg 2013

From Palm Sunday 2020, the church windows were illuminated in the evening for several weeks.

Others

Theater performances have been taking place in Lüftelberg since 1981. The Lüfthildis mystery plays are every year at the beginning of June - in the festive octave of St. Lüfthildis - mostly in the church. Therefore, the pieces predominantly have the character of mystery games . They deal with historical subjects or the lives of saints . Most of them were written by the Lüftelberg teacher Kurt Faßbender († 2016), many actors live in Lüftelberg or in the region. The sponsor is the theater association Lüfthildis Mysterienspiele eV
From Palm Sunday, April 4, 2020 to mid-May, the church was illuminated from the inside for several weeks. The campaign as a contrast to the everyday restrictions due to the corona pandemic , when no services could take place in the church at Easter, was under the motto "Hope of Light".

literature

St. Petrus in Lüftelberg. Small historical guide through the parish church (leaflet in the church)

Web links

Commons : St. Petrus - Collection of Images

Homepage of the parish community Meckenheim
Opus list (list of works as of XII / 2014; PDF; 391 kB)

Individual evidence

^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach . PDF; P. 44 ff.
↑ Lüfthildis - Mysterienspiele eV Accessed on June 27, 2020 (German).
↑ Luminous sign of hope: Lüftelberg Church of St. Petrus illuminated in color. Between Palm Sunday and mid-May, the Lüftelberg church was illuminated from the inside in different colors in the evening from 8:15 p.m. With the motto “Hope of Light”, their windows shone blue, red or white in the evening. The lighting was originally only planned for the Holy Days and Easter days. But because the illuminated village church was very well received by many people in Lüftelberg, the community extended the campaign until mid-May. With the lighting, the St. Petrus parish wanted to get the people in Lüftelberg out of the everyday life of the Corona restrictions for a little while and to remind them of Easter. Since Easter services were not allowed to be celebrated this year, it was all the more important for the congregation to remember that God lives in the midst of people, goes into their everyday lives up to suffering and death. Rafael Buttlies, the initiator of the lighting campaign, would also like the lighting to be understood as a sign of gratitude for everyone working in the medical field. The community was supported by the Lüfthildis Mysterienspiele eV theater association, which provided spotlights.

50.648021 7.004283Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 52.9 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 15.4 ″ E

[1] Gerhard Hoffs: Bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach . PDF; P. 44 ff.

[2] Lüfthildis - Mysterienspiele eV Accessed on June 27, 2020 (German).

[3] Luminous sign of hope: Lüftelberg Church of St. Petrus illuminated in color. Between Palm Sunday and mid-May, the Lüftelberg church was illuminated from the inside in different colors in the evening from 8:15 p.m. With the motto “Hope of Light”, their windows shone blue, red or white in the evening. The lighting was originally only planned for the Holy Days and Easter days. But because the illuminated village church was very well received by many people in Lüftelberg, the community extended the campaign until mid-May. With the lighting, the St. Petrus parish wanted to get the people in Lüftelberg out of the everyday life of the Corona restrictions for a little while and to remind them of Easter. Since Easter services were not allowed to be celebrated this year, it was all the more important for the congregation to remember that God lives in the midst of people, goes into their everyday lives up to suffering and death. Rafael Buttlies, the initiator of the lighting campaign, would also like the lighting to be understood as a sign of gratitude for everyone working in the medical field. The community was supported by the Lüfthildis Mysterienspiele eV theater association, which provided spotlights.