The Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bern
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
The Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bern
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a Christian Catholic church building on Rathausgasse 2 in Bern.
It was built from 1858 to 1864 as the first Catholic church of the city of Bern in the immediate vicinity of the Bern City Hall. The church is the result of an international competition; The plans came from France (inter alia, by Pierre Joseph Edouard Deperthes, the architect of the City Hall of Paris) and the historicizing style imitates the formal language of Romanesque and early Gothic.
The first service took place on November 13, 1864. In 1875 the church became Christian Catholic during the Kulturkampf. From the Art Nouveauperiod, the ceiling paintings and the colored windows; the choir room was redesigned in 1998. The ringing consists of three bells of the bell foundry Rüetschi with the beats.
The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a parish church of the Christian Catholic parish of Bern and serves as the Cathedral of Christ the Catholic Bishopof Switzerland. For the names of the previous bishops see list of Swiss Christian Catholic bishops.
The organ was built in 1885 by the organ builder Friedrich Goll (Lucerne). In 1948 the instrument was rebuilt, whereby the disposition was changed. In 2011, the instrument was renovated and returned to its original state. The cone-loading instrument has 28 registers on two manuals and pedal. The game and register fractures are mechanical.
A very grateful thank you to the following groups for featuring this picture
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