St Peter's Church, Heidelberg, Germany
St. Peter's Church
To the southwest is the Late Gothic St. Peter’s Church, parts of which were subsequently redone in Baroque and Neogothic styles. Formerly the university church, it was once used to bury deceased professors, local officials, and prominent residents. There are a number of tombs and grave-stones in the church’s interior and gardens.
St Peter’s Church, Heidelberg.
Stained glass
In Peter's glass paintings of the 19th and 21st century are present. The older windows are located in the choir, contemporary window Johannes Schreiter in the nave and in the southern and the northern side chapel.
Detail: Stained glass window in the choir (1869).
In the choir polygon three neo-Gothic stained glass windows have been preserved, which were about 1869 by Henry Beiler (sen.), Heidelberg, executed. The three-figure group in the Timeline window is the most colorful accent in the choir: In the middle of the increases is the chalice, blessing Christ flanked by Peter and John the Evangelist. Color and character style betrayed the proximity to the painting of the Nazarenes.
The side windows in the choir master is reported to their design and content of typical pictorial creations of Protestantism and inscriptions as foundations. They are dedicated people in the Protestant church history and designed as a sober Portrait Gallery:. (. Reg 1611-1632) left King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, including Elector Ottheinrich Palatine, accompanied by the theologian Philipp (reg 1556-1559.) Jakob Spener (1635-1705) and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834), right in the same cross-shaped arrangement of Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), flanked by Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) and John Calvin (1509-1564). These eight personalities embody controversial theological and confessional tendencies that seemed reconciled by the tolerance of the Baden Church Union 1821st
St Peter's Church, Heidelberg, Germany
St. Peter's Church
To the southwest is the Late Gothic St. Peter’s Church, parts of which were subsequently redone in Baroque and Neogothic styles. Formerly the university church, it was once used to bury deceased professors, local officials, and prominent residents. There are a number of tombs and grave-stones in the church’s interior and gardens.
St Peter’s Church, Heidelberg.
Stained glass
In Peter's glass paintings of the 19th and 21st century are present. The older windows are located in the choir, contemporary window Johannes Schreiter in the nave and in the southern and the northern side chapel.
Detail: Stained glass window in the choir (1869).
In the choir polygon three neo-Gothic stained glass windows have been preserved, which were about 1869 by Henry Beiler (sen.), Heidelberg, executed. The three-figure group in the Timeline window is the most colorful accent in the choir: In the middle of the increases is the chalice, blessing Christ flanked by Peter and John the Evangelist. Color and character style betrayed the proximity to the painting of the Nazarenes.
The side windows in the choir master is reported to their design and content of typical pictorial creations of Protestantism and inscriptions as foundations. They are dedicated people in the Protestant church history and designed as a sober Portrait Gallery:. (. Reg 1611-1632) left King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, including Elector Ottheinrich Palatine, accompanied by the theologian Philipp (reg 1556-1559.) Jakob Spener (1635-1705) and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834), right in the same cross-shaped arrangement of Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), flanked by Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) and John Calvin (1509-1564). These eight personalities embody controversial theological and confessional tendencies that seemed reconciled by the tolerance of the Baden Church Union 1821st