St.-Petri-Kirche, Lutheran church in Rodewisch, Germany.
St.-Petri-Kirche is a Lutheran church in Rodewisch with a 46-meter (151-foot) tower on Wernesgrüner Straße. The building displays architectural features from the 18th century and shapes the townscape with its classical design.
The foundation stone for the current building was laid in 1729 and construction finished in 1734. Consecration took place in 1736, marking the beginning of worship that continues to this day.
The first organ was installed in 1664; the current Jehmlich organ dates from 1857/58. The parish's baptism and marriage registers reach back to 1589, and the oldest documents in its archive to a bundle of church accounts from 1555. The church has been the town's Lutheran parish church since the Reformation was preached here from 1522.
The church stands on Wernesgrüner Straße, where the parish office was rebuilt in 1875; the parish archive there holds registers going back to 1589. The tower is 46 metres high, so the spire is visible from much of the town as a landmark for orientation. Since 1924 the congregation has also used the Martin-Luther-Kirche in Rützengrün as a branch church.
The 1645 tower-knob document, written by pastor Johann Bleymüller of Olsnitz, is 32 pages (21 written) and records the third church's construction during the Thirty Years' War, naming donors such as Christian Winkelman and the Messingwerk Niederauerbach shareholders. The originals were removed during the 1980/81 tower restoration and replaced by photocopies; the Förderverein had the fragile document restored in the early 21st century.
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