According to accounts handed down from the Middle Ages, Duke Henry the Lion was the founder of the Church of St. Peter. He founded the church in order to compensate for the main apostles of the cathedral church, St. Peter and St. Paul, being replaced by St. Blaise as the protector saint. He founded the parish Church of St. Peter and the Chapel of St. Paul (which no longer exists) in the Church of St. Martin (Martinikirche). Nothing else is known about the first building of this fourth parish church in the Old City other than it was destroyed in a large fire in 1256. The 71m individual tower from after 1256 is mentioned in a document. After another large fire in 1290, a third structure was built which more or less comprises the hall church which has been preserved from the 14th century. The high tower spire which used to be covered in lead was damaged over the years by storms and lightning. After 1811, a Baroque cover replaced the Gothic spire. After it was destroyed during the war in 1944, a copper-plated spire tower was erected between 1969 and 1971 with a rooster which was created by Bodo Kampmann. The interior of the church is dominated by heavy 8-sided pillars.
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