Sankt Peter Frankfurt

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The Church of St Peter (German: Peterskirche) is a former evangelical church located in the Innenstadt area of Frankfurt, Germany. It has been known as jugend-kultur-kirche sankt peter since 2007, when it became a youth centre. The church built between 1891 and 1894 on a neo-Renaissance design by Hans Grisebach and Georg Dinklage.It was built on the site of the historic St Peter's Churchyard (German: Peterskirchhof), where most of Frankfurt's dead was buried until 1828.

There had been a smaller church in the Peterskirchhof since 1381. In August 1889, the Frankfurt municipality decided to tear down this church, although the building was not actually destroyed until 1895. In the meantime, the current Church was built to the north-west of the previous one. The Church of St Peter was designed by Hans Grisebach and Georg Dinklage, two architects from Berlin. They designed a hall church in the style of eclecticism, a combination of different historical styles. The 68 metre-high spire of the church was the tallest building in the area at the time of its construction.

Reconstruction: On 22 March 1944, the church was damaged in a bombing raid of Frankfurt. The church...