St. Peter’s Lutheran-Spanish Lake

Genealogical Data

The following indexes from this congregation are available:

Baptisms from 1864 to 1924

Confirmations from 1899 to 1938

Deaths from 1871 to 1974

Marriages from 1872 to 1979

These are indexes only. As of 2024, we do not have this congregation’s permission to publish actual images online. However, this may change in the future.

  Photo © 2013 Phil Klasskin
(Used with permission)

History

Established 1864; still active in 2024

A group of German farmers organized the St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in north St. Louis County in 1864. Heinrich Penningroth donated land, stones, and money to help build a stone church on Columbia Bottom Road.

In 1946, the City of St. Louis condemned a section of Columbia Bottom, including the church property, in preparation to build a new airport. The church members were forced to move. They chose a new site for their church on Trampe Road about a mile west of the Columbia Bottom area. The congregation added an educational wing in 1962 with nineteen classrooms. The construction of the airport never materialized, and the original property site is now part of the Missouri River flood plain.

Address: 1121 Trampe Road, Spanish Lake, Missouri 63138

Telephone No.: 314-741-2485

Location 1864–1946: Columbia Bottom Road, North St. Louis County

GPS (Latitude, Longitude: 38.803531, -90.180361 View map

Location 1946–Present: 1121 Trampe Road, Spanish Lake, Missouri 631384

GPS (Latitude, Longitude): 38.7879491,-90.2002987 View map