City Church St. Peter (Sonneberg)

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The church

The Evangelical Lutheran town church St. Peter is located in the town of Sonneberg in the Sonneberg district in Thuringia .

location

The neo-Gothic church stands on the northeastern outskirts. The cemetery is located above the church . The town church is directed to the south-west and with the double tower was characteristic of the cityscape.

history

During the town fire in 1840, the town church St. Johannis on the market was also a victim of the flames. As early as 1843–1845 a new church was built outside the city at that time on the western slope of Schönberg according to plans by Carl Alexander Heideloff , who chose the Nuremberg Lorenz Church as a model. The church was inaugurated on Pentecost Sunday, May 11th, 1845.

Special features of the church

The choir

The staggered church has a three-aisled , five-bay nave with a retracted choir and tracery windows . The south-western end of the sandstone facade is a 45 meter high double tower facade. The Gothic vaulted central nave has a polygonal closed choir. The aisles are divided by galleries with tracery parapets. Six supports support the arcade arches with keel arch attachments and crabs support the ribbed vault. The interior design, with columns, galleries and the ceiling of the interior, consists of plastered and colored wooden structures. The Gothic altar is framed by a crucifixion group . The figures are preserved originals from Franconia around 1500. The former polychromy of the interior could be restored during the restoration . The romanticism was created in three of the five stained glass windows based on designs by Moritz von Schwind in Munich in 1892 .

The bells of the former St. Andrew's Church in Berlin have been ringing here since 1950. It burned down during the war and was blown up in 1949.

organ

The organ was built in 1925 by W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) . The instrument has 42 registers on three manuals and a pedal .

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche St. Peter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lieselotte Swietek: Churches in Thuringia. Verlagshaus Thuringia, 1990, ISBN 3-86087-023-8 , pp. 80/81.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '48  .7 " N , 11 ° 10' 41.7"  E