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[3] Pfarrkirche St. Peter und Paul

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The parish church, which is Romanesque in its original parts, took its shape that dominates the city's silhouette to this day after the siege and conquest by the troops of the later Emperor Maximilian I in 1498 with the Gothic high choir and the bell tower. As it was not heavy affected by the iconoclastic fury, it harbors a valuable sacred interior. Recalled should only be the Antwerp altars, the sacrament house in the choir ("an excellent work around 1500") and the Romanesque baptismal font of the Maas-Schelde school with its "primeval expressive reliefs of great power". The first conservator of the Rhine province, Paul Clernen, saw in it "the architecturally most significant, largest and most interesting church in the district of Geldern". The location of the church in a former cemetery district, which today forms a nice square through a closed row of houses in the shape of a horseshoe arch, is also appealing.

The parish church, which is Romanesque in its original parts, took its shape that dominates the city's silhouette to this day after the siege and conquest by the troops of the later Emperor Maximilian I in 1498 with the Gothic high choir and the bell tower. As it was not heavy affected by the iconoclastic fury, it harbors a valuable sacred interior. Recalled should only be the Antwerp altars, the sacrament house in the choir ("an excellent work around 1500") and the Romanesque baptismal font of the Maas-Schelde school with its "primeval expressive reliefs of great power". The first conservator of the Rhine province, Paul Clernen, saw in it "the architecturally most significant, largest and most interesting church in the district of Geldern". The location of the church in a former cemetery district, which today forms a nice square with a closed row of houses in the shape of a horseshoe arch, is also appealing.