Cathedral of St Peter, Bautzen

St Peter's Cathedral to Bautzen, Upper Sorbian Katedrala swj. Petra is one of the largest simultaneous churches in Germany. He is one of the most important churches of Saxony and is the oldest church site of Upper Lusatia. The cathedral is located on the meat market in the Old Town of Bautzen, opposite the town hall.

Architectural History

Already around the year 1000, Count of Eido Rochlitz build a first parish church on the site of the present cathedral. After 1213 (G. Fabricius ), probably until around 1217/1218, saw the establishment of collegiate St. Peter. On June 24, 1221 Choir of the building was inaugurated. Some components have been preserved from this period, such as the west portal. Baukundliche excavations have not taken place during the last restoration. 1430 was the cathedral its present shape. 1456/63 of Late Gothic hall was extended by a fourth vessel situated south. After the great fire in 1634 the interior was designed in the baroque style. 1664 the tower was provided with a Baroque dome. The cathedral has been restored several times in its history, most recently in 1987. Few years ago, the facade of the cathedral was re-plastered and painted.

Special

After the Reformation, the Cathedral 1524 de facto interdenominational church ( Roman Catholic, Lutheran ) was and was the first interdenominational church in Germany and one of three such churches in East Germany. After long disputes between Lutherans and Catholics Bautzener Council and the cathedral chapter in 1543 signed a first agreement governing the use of the church by both denominations. It was the chorus for the Catholic, determines the longhouse for the Protestant worship. The border ran on Lettnergitter. Other treaties was followed in the 16th century at the time of dean Johann Leisentrit, eg through external possessions, such as the parish Gaußig. While the Bohemian uprising (1619 /20) was expelled Catholic " St. Peter's Collegiate " for a short time from the cathedral. Thereafter, the old status is restored.

Pope Benedict XV. Built in 1921 the bishopric of Meissen based in Bautzen again. Since the relocation of the bishopric to Dresden, 1980, Bautzen Cathedral is co-cathedral of the Diocese of Dresden- Meissen.

St Peter's Cathedral is among the churches with a pronounced kink axis. For this deviation from the straight line, there are many different models of explanation, but none as sure of which may be accepted. One explanation is that the cathedral was built at the beginning instead of or on the foundations of another church and we took as the extension of the church to the surrounding urban conditions.

In addition, the construction of a second steeple was evidently intended. This is particularly important to recognize the asymmetric construction if you look up on the long side on the building in front of the main entrance.

At the tower is equipped with an external elevator, which is used by the watchman for pulling up his purchases, because it still lives a watchman on the tower (as of 2011 ).

Equipment

In the Catholic part of the cathedral, especially the high altar of 1713 and the crucifix ( Permoserkreuz ) by Balthasar Permoser (1713 ) are art-historically significant. In evangelical part of the sacrament of the altar 1640 and the royal box of 1674 are noteworthy.

Organs

The cathedral houses in every part also has its own organ, which are tonally matched. The evangelical in part is one of the greatest works of major organ building workshop owl Bautzen. The instrument was built in 1910. The instrument has pneumatic bag shop. In the Catholic part of the cathedral is a somewhat smaller instrument ( II/32 ) from cabbage from Bautzen.

" Evangelical " organ

  • Coupling (pneumatic): Normal Couplers: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P
  • Superoktavkoppeln: II / I, III / II,
  • Suboktavkoppeln: II / I, III / II,

"Catholic " organ

  • Pairing:
  • Accessories:

Trivia

The population of the city of Bautzen, says an old rule that bad weather comes up, when the Cathedral " is roaring ." This is based on that due to the construction of the church tower through stormy wind a steady wind noise is generated, this sounds like a howl and is widely heard in the city. As stormy winds often occur at the beginning of severe weather, particularly wind gusts are harbingers of thunderstorms, the " organs " of the cathedral is seen as a sign.

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