St. Petri parish church

We will describe the most important furnishings and buildings in the Hüsten St. Petri parish below. The church space in particular will be described in detail. You can get an idea of what the church looks like by looking at the images. Come and visit this religious site in person and take in the church space.

Hüsten is very old. It was first mentioned in 802 in a record made by the Benedictine abbey in Werden a.d. Ruhr, through gifts of goods to the Holy Ludgerus. This makes the St. Petri parish one of the main parishes in the Sauerland region. Hüsten is also mentioned in the “Corveyer Traditionen” document, dated 854 and 877.

In 1179, Hüsten is expressly named as the “mother church”, when the Archbishop of Cologne regulated the relationship between the Hüsten parish church and the nunnery at Oelinghausen, which was founded in 1174.

The patronage rights changed during the period that followed. By 1821, the parishes of the Sauerland region, which belonged to the Electorate of Cologne, belonged to the Archbishopric of Cologne, and then to the Archbishopric of Paderborn.

During the Middle Ages and through to the modern era, the St. Petri parish of Hüsten extended over a wide area. During the oldest period, Hüsten still belonged to the Arnsberg-Rumbeck, Neheim and Vosswinkel parishes. Arnsberg became a parish in its own right in 1173. The villages of Niedereimer, Wennigloh and Hof Wicheln were incorporated into the parish of Hüsten. Until the end of the 13th century, Neheim was also a subsidiary of Hüsten. Vosswinkel, Bachum, Oelinghausen, Bruchhausen, Herdringen, Müschede, Bönkhausen and Habbel also used to belong to Hüsten. Oelinghausen was removed from the parish in 1904. The official land register record of the transfer of the nunnery church, which had been taken over by the Hüsten parish in 1880, to the parish of Oelinghausen was made in 1954. In 1917, the subsidiaries of Bruchhausen, Niedereimer and Müschede were declared to be a separate subsidiary church congregations, with their own asset management and corporation rights. In 1939, Herdringen became a separate parish, followed by Bruchhausen in 1944.

In the interim, Hüsten had become so large, particularly as a result of the influx of many workers during the course of industrialisation (e.g. smelting works in the Ruhr Valley) that it became necessary to build a second church. It was consecrated in Unterhüsten in 1934 and now forms the independent parish of the “Holy Spirit”.

In 2002, the congregations of St.Maria Magdalena and Luzia-Bruchhausen, St. Hubertus-Müschede and St.Petri-Hüsten joined together again to form the Röhr-Ruhr pastoral association.