Jesuit Church (Trier)

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Facade of the Jesuit Church
The Church from the East

The Jesuit Church (also Trinity Church ) in Trier is a former monastery church of the Franciscan from the first half of the 13th century . It is consecrated to the Holy Trinity .

history

From 1570 to 1773 it was the Jesuit Church . Until the early 18th century, it had only two ships, but was then expanded to include a third, which is designed in the same shape as the older ones. The Jesuit and fighter of the witch hunt Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (1591-1635) was buried in the crypt under the north aisle . In 1779 it was made available by Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony (1739-1812) to the newly founded Episcopal Seminary as a seminary church. Used briefly as a storage room by the French revolutionary troops in 1794, the church was used again for worship from 1795 to 1798. After the abolition of the seminary in 1798, the building was until 1801 the " Temple of Reason " or " Decade temple converted".

After Trier became Prussian as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , the building was a simultaneous church from 1818 to 1819 and a Protestant parish church from 1819 to 1856. Karl Marx (1818–1883) was confirmed here in 1834 . After a process on June 11, 1856, which the lawyer Johann Theodor Regnier (1810-1859) was able to decide for himself as a representative of the Episcopal Seminary in Trier and the subsequent move of the evangelical community to the Constantine Basilica , the church served since 1857 again the services of the seminary.

In 1988/93 the church was renovated.

  • Entrance to the Friedrich Spee crypt (inner courtyard)

  • Church view from the inner courtyard of the seminary

  • Memorial stone for Johann Martin Moye

description

Sanctuary

Since the last renovation, there has been a Marian votive altar in the choir, which previously stood in the forecourt of the Jesuit college building. This altar dates from 1727 and shows a statue of the Virgin Mary with child, probably made by the sculptor Johann Neudecker the Elder. J. from Hadamar. In the base are carved Latin prayers of the Marian brotherhoods, which had their seat in the Jesuit church. The altar was moved inside the church to protect it from weathering; There is now a cast at the original location in front of the Jesuit College.

On the south side of the apse is the mid-15th century epitaph of the Luxembourg princess Elisabeth von Görlitz, an important late Gothic sculptural work. In the northern side choir is the sacrament house with tabernacle. The tomb of Father Wilhelm Eberschweiler SJ, a priest who died in the reputation of holiness and whose bones were transferred to Trier in 1958, is placed in the southern side choir . Since the last renovation, one can look through an oculus (an elaborately designed opening in the floor) into the Spee crypt under the north aisle, where the Spee grave is visible. A historical monument in the aisle also commemorates Friedrich Spee .

The vaults of the Jesuit church are painted with floral motifs that were redesigned in the old style during the last renovation, as there were no remains of the original paintings. The keystones of the vaults have chiseled motifs (including rose, lamb of God, national coat of arms).

The glass windows of the rosette and the windows of the east choir date from 1951. They were created according to designs by the Trier artist Reinhard Heß . The rosette windows show a large triumphal cross, symbols of the Trinity, the four evangelist symbols and in the lower six lanes symbols and instruments of suffering that relate to the crucifixion of Christ.

  • Interior view, central nave, looking east

  • Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, memorial

  • "Oculus" (floor opening) to the grave of Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld

  • Southern side choir

organ

Central nave with organ, facing west

The organ stands on a wooden gallery above the entrance area . The instrument was built in 1995 by the organ building workshop Johannes Klais (Bonn). It has 27 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The key actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Hollow pipe 8th'
2. Slack travers 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Forest flute 2 ′
7th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
8th. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Scharff III 1'
10. Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
11. Drone 16 ′
12. Praestant 8th'
13. Reed flute 8th'
14th Salicional 8th'
15th Octave 4 ′
16. recorder 4 ′
17th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Super octave 2 ′
19th Mixture IV 2 ′
20th Cornet V 8th'
21st Trumpets 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Sub-bass 16 ′
23. Principal bass 8th'
24. Gemshorn 8th'
25th Tenor octave 4 ′
26th trombone 16 ′
27. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids: collective kicks

  • Friedrich Spee crypt with sarcophagus

  • Friedrich Spee crypt

  • Grave of the cathedral capitular Anton Arens

literature

  • The Jesuit Church in Trier and the Prussian government. A contemporary addendum to the “Monograph” on this matter published in the summer of 1838 under the title “On Prussian Church Law” . Grach, Trier 1850.
  • Chronological order of the documents and fundamental references about the property right to the Trinity or Jesuit Church in Trier . F. Lintz, Trier 1855.
  • Theodor Regnier: Plaidoy in matters of the Episcopal Seminary in Trier, concerning the Jesuit or Trinity Church, against the Protestant parish there, and the Royal Prussian Treasury . Trier 1856.
  • Jakob Marx : Memories of the Trinity or Jesuit Church of the Episcopal Seminary in Trier. A commemorative publication . Trier 1860.
  • Wilhelm Deuser : The Trinity Church . In: Royal Friedrich Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Trier 1563–1913. Festschrift to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the institution on October 6-8, 1913 . Jacob, Lintz, Trier 1913, pp. 34-56. Internet Archive
  • Josef Still : The new Klais organ in the Jesuit church in Trier . In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch . Trierisch Association, 1995, ISSN  0077-7765 , p. 231-233 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on window (Waxweiler) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Further information on the furnishings of the Jesuit Church ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ps-trier.de
  3. ↑ Information on the organ
  4. ↑ Cf. Balthasar Fischer : Anton Arens' contribution to Spee research . Spee-Jahrbuch Vol. 1 (1994), p. 17 historicum.net pdf

Web links

Commons : Jesuit Church  - collection of images

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 12 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 24"  E