List of cultural monuments in Merzkirchen

The list of cultural monuments in Merzkirchen contains all the cultural monuments of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Merzkirchen, including the districts of Dittlingen , Kelsen , Körrig , Portz , Rommelfangen and Südlingen . The basis is the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (as of June 6, 2017).

Monument zones

designation	location	Construction year	description	image
Monument zone extension of Körrig	Körrig, Alter Kirchenweg 1–8, Saarburger Straße 9 location	around 1860	Uniform local expansion started around 1860 from five loosely lined up courtyard estates; characteristic village street scene	Image wanted
Historic center of Portz	Portz, Im Dorf 15–29 and 20–26, Weidenweg 2 Lage	18th and 19th centuries	characteristic village appearance in the eastern half of the village made up of stately stretched farms from the 18th and 19th centuries, including two wells and the outskirts formed by house and tree gardens	Image wanted

Individual monuments

designation	location	Construction year	description	image
Catholic branch church of St. Celsus and Ignatius	Dittlingen, No. 20a location	1834	Classicist hall construction, 1834
Catholic branch church St. Gangolf	Kelsen, No. 50a location	1902	neo-Gothic hall building with portal tower, 1902	more pictures
Cross house	Kelsen, No. 51 location	1867	Quereinhaus, marked 1867	Image wanted
Büchel Cross	Kelsen, at the north-western exit of the town on the K 120 location	1918	Warrior memorial cross; Sandstone pedestal, cast iron cross, 1918, erected in honor of Matthias Büchel, who died on June 19, 1915 in Nennig at the age of 22 . The iron cross was renewed in 1992.
Cross house	Körrig, Alter Kirchenweg 8 location	1912	Quereinhaus, marked 1912	Image wanted
Catholic branch church St. Lukas and St. Arnold	Körrig, Kapellenweg 5 location	17th century	Late Gothic hall building, 17th century, Gothic choir and choir flank tower	more pictures
Tombs	Körrig, Kapellenweg, in the cemetery location	19th century	two neo-Gothic tombs, 19th century	Image wanted
Courtyard	Körrig, Saarburger Strasse 9 location	around 1890	Winkelhof , around 1890	Image wanted
Cross house	Körrig, Saarburger Strasse 10 location	1837	Classicist cross-house, marked 1837, extension in the second half of the 19th century	Image wanted
Cross house	Körrig, Trierer Straße 3 location	around 1870	stately side-by-side house, around 1870	Image wanted
Wayside shrine	Körrig, Trierer Straße, at No. 4/6 location	1752	Crucifixion shrine, marked 1752	Image wanted
portal	Körrig, Trierer Straße, at No. 11 Lage	1812	Classicist portal, marked 1812	Image wanted
portal	Körrig, Zum Albach, at No. 1 location	1805	Portal, transition from baroque to classicism, marked 1805	Image wanted
Host Chapel and Johanneskreuz	Körrig, east of the village on the road to Kahren Lage	1813	Hosten chapel: Quarry stone building, erected in 1813 as a memorial to the battle of Dresden and Leipzig , presumably on the site of a previous chapel. In 1920 the building was renewed and the cross of St. John was attached to its south-western rear. The last renovations took place in 1992 and 2000. Inside there is a pietà on the rear wall on a pedestal , protected from it by an iron grille. The building has the external dimensions 3.37 × 2.99 × 3.72 m (H × W × L) with a round arch portal that leads to the interior. The 2.10 m high Johanneskreuz , a crucifixion shrine from the 18th century, is badly damaged and weathered. There is an inscription in the shaft that refers to Johannes Baptist .	more pictures
Lady Chapel	Körrig, south of the village on the K 123 location	at the end of the 19th century	Path chapel, plastered building, end of the 19th century. The interior is decorated with a Banneux Madonna and a copy of the Klausen Pietà.
Foch Chapel	Körrig, west of the village at the fork in a farm road Lage	1857	Wayside chapel; Plastered building, built in 1857 by Katharina Fochs, to commemorate her husband Hilarius Schiltz, who died in 1855. Roof covering made of zinc sheet imitations of tile panels. The chapel has the dimensions 3.14 × 2.40 × 3.20 m (H × W × L) with a wall thickness of 0.50 m. In it stands a stone altar with a metal cross. The chapel was restored in 1997 and 2008.
Catholic parish church of St. Martin	Merzkirchen, Kirchstrasse 1b location	1848/49	neo-Gothic hall building, 1848/49; on the church wall tombstone, around 1820, on the cemetery wall altar cross, inscribed 1833	more pictures
Shellfish	Portz, in the village, at No. 4 location	first half of the 18th century	Shell niche, first half of the 18th century	Image wanted
Courtyard	Portz, in the village 15 location	18th century	stately Streckhof, 18th century, extension towards the beginning of the 19th century; overall structure with courtyard	Image wanted
Catholic branch church St. Sebastian	Portz, in the village 17 location	1739	Baroque hall building with roof turret, marked 1739; Monument to the fallen, neo-baroque crucifixion group	Image wanted
Courtyard	Portz, in the village 24 location	early 18th century	Streckhof, early 18th century, renewal of the economy in the 19th century	Image wanted
Wayside cross	Portz, northwest of the village at the junction of the path to Merzkirchen from the K 121 location	around 1860	Sandstone pedestal, cast iron cross, around 1860
Catholic branch church St. Isidore	Rommelfangen, No. 6a location	1922	neo-baroque hall, 1922, architect Josef Monz , Trier
Altenhofen Cross	Rommelfangen, northeast of the village at the intersection of K 112 and L 134 Lage	1859	Shank cross made of Udelfang sandstone , neo-Gothic stele, 1859, memorial cross for Franz Altenhofen († October 15, 1859), at the age of 30 - his wife and two children .
Wayside cross	Rommelfangen, northwest of the village Lage	1855	Altar cross, marked 1855	Image wanted
Catholic branch church of St. Blaise and St. Barbara	Südlingen, No. 6 location	1732	former castle chapel, small hall, renovation in 1732
Castle and Hofgut Südlingen	Südlingen, No. 6/7 location	before 1161	laid out before 1161, removed in the first half of the 19th century; recognizable by the rectangular area within the former ditch around the branch church (No. 6), remains of the wall of the Electoral Trier castle in the courtyard house (No. 7) and a transverse house from 1848; Memorial for the castle, which is important in terms of territorial history	Image wanted

Former cultural monuments

designation	location	Construction year	description	image
Cross house	Dittlingen, No. 8 location	1833	Cross house; sandstone-integrated plastered building, marked 1833; deleted from list of monuments	Image wanted
Wayside cross	Rommelfangen, on the northern outskirts	around 1860	Cross, neo-Gothic, around 1860; deleted from list of monuments

literature

• Ewald Wegner (arrangement): District of Trier-Saarburg. Verbandsgemeinden Hermeskeil, Kell, Konz, Saarburg (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 12.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1994, ISBN 3-88462-100-9 .
• General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Informational directory of the cultural monuments in the district of Trier-Saarburg (PDF; 6.5 MB). Mainz 2017.

Web links

Commons : Kulturdenkmäler in Merzkirchen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Steffny, Clemens Lehnert: Merzkirchen - a chronicle. Ed .: Ortsgemeinde Merzkirchen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037531-6 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ewald Wegner (arrangement): District of Trier-Saarburg. Verbandsgemeinden Hermeskeil, Kell, Konz, Saarburg (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 12.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1994, ISBN 3-88462-100-9 .

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