# Sankt Peter

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Sankt Peter stands beneath the Deutschhaus, in the north-west of Mainz’s historic centre. This rococo church presents a baroque hall and a double onion-dome façade. It began as the collegiate church known as St Peter before the walls, founded by Archbishop Frederick in 944. That foundation served the archbishop’s administration through its provosts and archdeacons.

Swedish attacks destroyed the collegiate during the Thirty Years’ War in 1631. Archbishop Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein began the present building in 1749, replacing the decayed Romanesque Odenmünster. Johann Valentin Thoman designed it, and builders completed the church in 1757. French occupation turned the church into a stable, while the Prussian army later used it as a garrison church until 1918. Afterward, the building became a parish church.

Air raids in 1944 and 1945 destroyed much of the church, but restoration began in 1959. The twin towers regained their original form in 1961. Later work from 1973 to 1989 added Karl Manninger’s ceiling frescoes, reconstructed from old photographs. The surviving baroque altars and Johannes Förster’s pulpit anchor the interior. Gernot Rumpf’s modern altar depicts a fisher of men, beside a 2003 bronze statue of Father Franz Adam Landvogt.

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