St. Petrus (Waltrop)
The Catholic parish church of St. Petrus is a listed church building in Waltrop , a town in the Recklinghausen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
The community was founded in the 9th or 10th century as a separate church of the archbishops of Cologne and then donated to the Benedictine Abbey of Deutz at the beginning of the 11th century . The core of the west tower dates from the 12th century. The short-space hall church was built around 1500. Ribbed vaults rest on round pillars and figurative consoles.
The tower was damaged in a fire in 1783. Four new bells were cast in 1784.
The old choir was demolished in 1891 and the extension work began in 1892. Hilger Hertel the Elder In 1892 J. expanded the church to include a large central room.
The tower was raised in 1929, in the same year the war memorial chapel and the baptistery were added.
Furnishing
- A Romanesque font from the last third of the 12th century
- A wooden half-length figure of St. Lawrence from the early 16th century
- A St. Catherine from the beginning of the 16th century
- A delicate monstrance with a donor's inscription was created around 1500
- A bell from 1668
organ
The organ was built in 1984 by the organ building company Sauer (Höxter). The slider chests -instrument has 41 registers on two manuals and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.
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literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 573 .
- ↑ More information about the organ
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 25.7 ″ N , 7 ° 23 ′ 42.7 ″ E