St. Petrus (Waltrop)

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St. Peter
Interior view from 1897

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

monstrance

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.

I main work C–
1. Tube bare 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Viola da gamba 8th'
5. Oktava 4 ′
6th Thack flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 23
8th. Principal 2 ′
9. Cornett V 8th'
10. Mixture V-VI 2 ′
11. Zymbel III 12
12. bassoon 16 ′
13. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
Carillon 2 ′
II Swell C–
14th Flûte Harmonique 8th'
15th Dumped 8th'
16. Salicional 8th'
17th Vox Coelestis 8th'
18th Principal 4 ′
19th recorder 4 ′
20th Nasard 2 23
21st Forest flute 2 ′
22nd Fifth 1 13
23. Third Sept II 1 35
24. Scharff IV 1'
25th Dulcian 16 ′
26th Hautbois 8th'
27. Vox Humana 8th'
28. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C–
29 Principal 16 ′
30th Sub bass 16 ′
31. Grossnasard 10 23
32. Praestant 8th'
33. Pommer 8th'
34. Wood octave 4 ′
35. Night horn 2 ′
36. Backset V 2 23
37. Bombard 32 ′
38. Wooden trombone 16 ′
39. Trumpet 8th'
40. Cromone 4 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Web links

Commons : St. Peter (Waltrop)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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 .
  2. More information about the organ

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 25.7 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 42.7 ″  E