Propsteikirche St. Peter und Paul, Catholic parish church in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Propsteikirche St. Peter und Paul is a neo-Gothic brick church built 1854–1858 to plans by Cologne architect Vinzenz Statz. Its tower reaches 38 metres, 41 with the cross, and carries a clock face with gold numerals; the red brick spire is ringed by dark horizontal bands. A large pointed-arch window with tracery sits above the wooden double door, and the three-aisled body extends to the right under a dark sloped roof.
Construction of this church took place in the mid-19th century following designs by a Cologne architect. After severe bombing damage in 1945, the building underwent extensive reconstruction in the 1950s.
The parish grew out of a Franciscan mission; the first Catholic services from 1716 were held in the bedroom of the castle captain Adam Trinthammer at Schlosswache 1. The church is named for the apostles Peter and Paul, and the parish became a Propsteikirche in 1974. The Stations of the Cross were designed in 1938 by the Munich artist Georg Kemper.
The tower reaches 38 metres, 41 with the cross, so the clock face and the banded spire are best seen from further down the street rather than at the door. The entrance is through the wooden double door beneath the large traceried window of the main facade. The church stands in Dessau, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The church's 1967–68 interior redesign replaced the neo-Gothic high altar, removed back in 1930, with modern fittings: the tabernacle, altar cross, ambo and candlesticks were made by Dora and Hubert Kleemann between 1967 and 1970. The choir's central window and tabernacle refer to the burning bush. A new altar consecrated in 1976 holds relics of Saints Justus, Constantius, Tranquilla and Liborius.
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