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H.H. Petrus en Paulus
De parochiekerk H.H. Petrus en Paulus Pulle speelt mee in de geschiedenis van de twee wereldoorlogen. Onze kerk heeft een kerkklok van 1309. Deze klok werd in de eerste wereldoorlog opgenomen in een lijst van beschermende klokken door kardinaal Mercier aan de duitse bezetter overgemaakt en op die manier gespaard gebleven. In de tweede wereldoorlog is het de pastoor en die bewuste lijst die de bezetter overtuigd hebben de Maria-klok te sparen.
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H.H. Petrus en Paulus
With the silhouette of its tower, the Church of Saints Peter and Paul is the landmark of Pulle, near Zandhoven. It is a late-Gothic cruciform hall church of brick, oriented, with three aisles, a west tower set in front and a three-sided choir.
The building rose in stages: the base of the tower is fifteenth-century, the choir dates from 1646–1649, while the nave and transept were built in the third quarter of the seventeenth century. The west tower, of four stages and crowned with a pavilion roof, was restored in 1900–1901 under Eugeen Gife. The interior was adapted, probably in 1826, in a neoclassical spirit.
The church preserves a rich ensemble: paintings from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, among them an Entombment of Christ, a baroque portico altar of the seventeenth century, and an organ case possibly dated 1740. Its most precious treasure, however, is the bronze bell dedicated to Mary, cast in 1309 — likely the oldest bell in Western Europe, which for seven centuries has rung the hours of prayer.
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