Immersed in the soothing green of the churchyard, St. Peter's Church is the historic heart of Wilstedt. Even in this area, the Anglo-Saxon Willehad (consecrated bishop in 787) was commissioned by the Frankish king Karl (d. He had churches built and priests consecrated, with the oldest churches being mostly wood. Documented is a solid church in Wilstedt first in the 12th Century. Pope Clement III. confirmed the goods of the monastery Rastede in 1190 and also named a church in Wilstedt.
The abbots of this Benedictine monastery were until the Reformation, the owner of the patronage right over the church in Wilstedt. They had a significant impact on the village. Like all places of worship, St. Petri has also undergone structural changes: the bright church tower still derives essentially from the first church, but was raised in 1747/48. The red brick building was built in 1722 in the architectural style of the baroque style by the Stader council architect Anthon Dreyer, after the first church had been "patched" four times in the Middle Ages. One of the oldest objects is on the outside of the north wall of the church: the flat sandstone relief "Crucifixion with Mary and John" probably dates from the late Gothic period (around 1350-1500).
If you have the opportunity to visit St. Peter from the inside, you can discover the traces of the past: right at the main entrance is the magnificent sandstone portal made by the Bremen master sculptor Matthias Bödeker and above the door to the sacristy a writing plate with a rare German-language chronogram. Worth seeing are also the altar in the so-called cartilage style (around 1650) with pronounced ornamentation or the pulpit (1680), which comes from the Gertrudenkapelle in Stade and 1722 was bought by the Wilstedtern for 36 Reichstaler.