Historic Frankfurt by Thomas Riess

About "Historic Frankfurt"

by Thomas Riess

About the artwork

St. Peter's Church is a Protestant church in the city centre of Frankfurt am Main. The neo-Renaissance building was constructed between 1891 and 1894 according to plans by the Berlin architects Hans Grisebach and Georg Dinklage on the site of the historic Peterskirchhof, where most of the city's dead were buried until 1828. It replaced a small Gothic predecessor building that existed from 1381 to 1891. St. Peter's Church is one of the eight endowment churches that have been the property of the city of Frankfurt since 1803 and which the city is obliged to maintain on an ongoing basis. From 2004 to 2007, the church was converted into the jugend-kultur-kirche sankt peter. In 1333, Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian allowed the city to expand, tripling the area of the medieval old town. A new city wall was built in the 14th century to protect the emerging new city. The city extension was so generously dimensioned that the New Town was comparatively sparsely populated until the 19th century. In the north-east of the New Town near the Friedberger Tor, a residential area developed relatively soon around Alte Gasse and Schäfergasse, where mainly gardeners and farmers settled. At the intersection of these lanes, the Frankfurt councillor Peter Apotheker, who died in 1381, donated a small chapel in his will, as can be seen from a note by his executors dated 1393. The nameless chapel between the Biberbrunnen and Friedberger Pforte was probably built shortly before this mention, as it had not yet been consecrated in 1393.