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17-553: Petrikirche means St. Peter's Church in German and may refer to any of a number of churches in German-speaking regions. Germany [ edit ] St. Peter's Church, Hamburg St. Peter's Church, Herford St. Peter's Church, Rostock The former Petrikirche in Cölln , Berlin: see Fischerinsel#Notable buildings Topics referred to by

34-468: A 12th-century defensive structure. The tower's foundations lie under a commercial building at the corner of Kreuslerstraße and Speersort in the immediate vicinity of St. Peter's Church . The area is a light geest , where the first settlement of Hamburg has been documented. The base of the tower was discovered on 30 August 1962 during demolition work for the St. Peter's Community Center. Initially it

51-413: Is a stone circle of boulders with an outer diameter of 19 metres (62 ft) and an inner diameter of 11 metres (36 ft). The majority of these stones have a diameter of 1 metre (3.3 ft) or more. On the west side was a water well with a depth of 4 metres (13 ft), a diameter of 4.4 metres (14 ft), and was made of field stones roughly 50 centimetres (20 in) in diameter. A showroom

68-411: Is an archaeological site in the historic city center of Hamburg , Germany , containing the oldest known remains of a stone building in the city. The site includes the foundations of a circular tower and a well , originally believed to represent the 11th-century stone residence of Archbishop Adalbrand of Bremen . Later finds, however, disproved this theory and it is now considered to be part of

85-447: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Church building disambiguation pages St. Peter%27s Church, Hamburg It is believed that the church is near the original Hammaburg area and that a previous church or cathedral existed on the site. St. Peter's was probably built in early 1189; it was first documented in 1195 as a market church or ecclesia forensis . About 1310 it

102-471: The 132 meter high church tower — its copper spire designed years earlier by Johann Hermann Maack  [ de ] — was finished. In the first half of the 20th century, the parish lost many members, as residential neighborhoods were torn down to develop banks and department stores in the city center. The church got through the Second World War relatively intact. In 1962, as a nearby community center

119-643: The Hamburg Marienkirche, which he founded. From the 17th century, there are two oil paintings by Gottfried Libalt : Jacob's Dream and Christ's Birth . They were damaged by an acid attack in 1977, but were restored in October, 2001, and returned to the cathedral. The painting Christmas 1813 in St. Peter's is on a column in the south part of the cathedral. It shows the Hamburg citizens who, when they did not provide food to Napoleon's occupying troops, were locked in

136-467: The cathedral to be torn down between 1804 and 1807. Under the subsequent French occupation St. Peter's along with most of the other main churches in 1813 was commandeered by Napoleonic soldiers to be used as a horse stable. Only a few decades later it fell victim to the great fire that swept Hamburg in May 1842. Most works of art, such as the lion-head door handles, were saved. The St. Peter's portal gateway

153-428: The church by the soldiers. In the front of the cathedral are neo-Gothic representations of the evangelists. A modern bronze sculpture by Fritz Fleer shows Dietrich Bonhoeffer dressed as a convict with his hands bound. [REDACTED] Media related to St. Peter's Church, Hamburg at Wikimedia Commons Bischofsturm The Bishop's Tower ( German : Bischofsturm ), or Bishop's Castle ( Bischofsburg ),

170-487: The historic area, leading to the discovery that the tower's foundation coincided with the creation of a moat to the west, located right in front of the Heidenwall , a timber soil palisade known as the first fortification of Hamburg. With this information the dating was corrected to the 12th century. A possible interpretation is that the tower represents a side gate or a part of the city gate . The tower's foundation

187-460: The lion-head door handles, located in the left wing of the west portal. However, the cathedral contains many additional works of art. In the north portion of the cathedral, a Gothic mural from approximately 1460 shows the first bishop Ansgar of Bremen , with the words "Apostle of the North". A column in the choir area contains a statue by Bernt Notke, from around 1480–1483, showing Archbishop Ansgar and

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204-418: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Petrikirche . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petrikirche&oldid=671455706 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

221-593: Was assumed that displaced boulders from nearby Steinstraße had been found, which is believed to be the oldest street of the city of Hamburg, and an ancient trade route. But after further excavation the remaining foundations of the tower were uncovered. Until the 2008 excavations, it was thought to be the stone house of the Archbishop Adalbrand, built as a round tower and mentioned in the Hamburg church history of 1074 by Adam of Bremen . Further construction on St. Peter's Community Center enabled new studies of

238-609: Was being built, the foundations of a medieval tower, the Bischofsturm ("Bishop's Tower") were discovered. In 1979, nuclear power protesters, including the late pastor Christoph Stoermer, occupied the cathedral. From 2005 to 2007, the west and south facades of the church were hung with giant posters advertising the H&;M chain of clothing stores, thus providing funding for maintenance of the cathedral. The best known artworks in St Peter's are

255-546: Was built for the tower's foundations and other artifacts in early 1969 in the basement of the newly completed community center (and later commercial building). After demolition in 2008 for the construction of the St. Petri-Hof building, the showroom was redesigned as a branch of the Hamburg Archaeological Museum . It is now freely accessible to visitors through a commercial bakery on the ground floor, which has also set up

272-502: Was heavily damaged in the fire but was saved and ended up being built into the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte (established in 1922 and called Hamburg Museum since 2005), and the doorway itself was restored again in 1995. Only seven years after the great fire, the Gothic church was rebuilt by architects Alexis de Chateauneuf and Hermann Peter Fersenfeldt in its previous location. In 1878,

289-451: Was rebuilt in a Gothic style and was completed around 1418. The bronze lion-head door handles, the oldest work of art of Hamburg, date from the foundation of the tower in 1342. The tower, topped with a new copper-covered spire in 1516, at 127.5 m towered above even that of the neighbouring Hamburg Cathedral , but was surpassed itself already in 1518 by the tower of St. Nicholas Church at initially 135 m. Decay and political tensions caused

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