List of sacred buildings in Koblenz

View of the old town of Koblenz: Florinskirche (left), Liebfrauenkirche (right) and in the background the Basilica of St. Kastor

The list of sacred buildings in Koblenz provides an overview of the sacred buildings in Koblenz ( Rhineland-Palatinate ).

Explanation

• Name : gives the name of the sacred building
• Religion : Names the religion to which the sacred building belongs
• Direction : Indicates the direction of the religious community
• Use : Mention the use of the sacred building, e.g. B. as a church , chapel , monastery , synagogue , mosque or pagoda
• District : Names the district of Koblenz in which the sacred building is located
• Construction time : Indicates the construction time of the sacred building, which was built on the same site for the first time
• Description : Brief description of the sacred building
• Protection : Specifies whether the sacred structure a registered cultural monument is under the protection of the Hague Convention is and / or part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley is
• Image : Image of the sacred building (if available)

Note: The list is sortable . By clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column; clicking twice reverses the sorting. Any desired combination can be achieved by clicking two columns in a row.

Sacred buildings

Surname	religion	direction	use	district	construction time	description	protection	image
St. James	Christianity	old catholic	chapel	Old town	1355	Former cemetery chapel of the nearby Teutonic Order , since 1968 chapel of the old Catholic community in Koblenz	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. James	Christianity	old catholic	Parish church	Asterstein	1981	Relocation to the former Evangelical Community Center in 2013 because the St. James Chapel was too small
Florin's Church	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Old town	around 1100	Romanesque pillar basilica with Gothic choir (approx. 1350) above the Roman city tower, formerly the church of an important monastery, from which the Romanesque chapter house has been preserved	Cultural monument, Hague Convention, World Heritage
Christ Church	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Southern suburb	1901-1904	Neo-Gothic church by the Berlin architect Johannes Vollmer in an exposed urban development location on the then new boulevard Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring (today Friedrich-Ebert-Ring) built as part of the southern expansion of the city, the first new Protestant church in Koblenz	Cultural monument, world heritage
Evangelical Church Koblenz-Güls	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Guls
Evangelical Church Koblenz-Kesselheim	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Kesselheim
Evangelical Church Koblenz-Metternich	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Metternich	1898	Built for residents of Lippe and Metternich by the Koblenz pastor Otto Seeger	Cultural monument
Evangelical Church Koblenz-Pfaffendorf	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Pfaffendorf	1901-1904	Neo-Gothic structure of the domestic architect Erhard Müller, according to the evangelical architecture guidelines of the so-called Wiesbaden program built	Cultural monument, world heritage
Hope Church	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Pfaffendorfer Höhe	1964-1966	Erected as part of the military chaplaincy for neighboring barracks
Luther Chapel	Christianity	evangelical	chapel	Horchheim	around 1830	Built by Johann Claudius von Lassaulx as a tea house for Joseph Mendelssohn , since 1922 a Protestant chapel	Cultural monument, world heritage
Martin Luther Church	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Neuendorf	1957-1958
Church of Reconciliation	Christianity	evangelical	Parish church	Arenberg	1961	simple post-war modernism
New Apostolic Church	Christianity	New Apostolic	Parish church	Lützel	2002
Basilica of St. Castor	Christianity	Catholic	basilica	Old town	817-836	The oldest church building in Koblenz, in its present form it was built between 1150 and 1220 and served as the church of an important monastery until 1802, the Kastorbrunnen stands on the forecourt	Cultural monument, Hague Convention, World Heritage
Church of Our Lady	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Old town	1180-1205	Romanesque pillar basilica with Gothic choir (completed in 1430), the main parish church of the city until the end of the 18th century	Cultural monument, Hague Convention, World Heritage
Jesuit Church	Christianity	Catholic	Branch church	Old town	1613-1617	Church of the neighboring former Jesuit college , destroyed in an air raid in 1944, rebuilt 1958–1959 (architect: Gottfried Böhm )	Cultural monument, world heritage
Sacred Heart Church	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Old town	1900-1903	Important neo-Romanesque pillar basilica by the architect Ludwig Becker , built as part of the southern expansion of the city	Cultural monument, Hague Convention, World Heritage
Trinity Chapel	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Southern suburb	1847-1848	Built for spa guests at the neighboring Bad Laubach cold water sanatorium	Cultural monument, world heritage
Trinity Chapel	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Guls	(?)	Memorial for the flood disaster of 1932	Cultural monument
Grand Saint's House	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Guls	15th century		Cultural monument
Holy Cross Church	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Ehrenbreitstein	1704-1707	Originally an Italian-style cross-domed church from 1704–1707, it was destroyed in World War II. New building 1962–1964 designed by Martin Ufer with stained glass by Johannes Schreiter
Klausenberg Chapel	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Ehrenbreitstein	19th century	Commemorative plaque from 1901 for Lieutenant Baron Arnold von Solemacher, who died in 1795, and 15 hunters from the Electorate of Trier	Cultural monument, world heritage
Mary help	Christianity	Catholic	Chapel and pilgrimage church	Lützel	1903-1907	A pilgrimage church was added to the existing neo-Gothic chapel between 1952 and 1953	Cultural monument
Assumption Day	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Asterstein	1959	Built on the plan of the Sacred Rock	Cultural monument, world heritage
Michael's Chapel	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Old town	1321	Former cemetery chapel next to the Liebfrauenkirche	Cultural monument, world heritage
Chapel to the mother of beautiful love	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Arzheim	1844-1846	The construction goes back to a legend, interior with fresco by Franz Ittenbach	Cultural monument, world heritage
Peter Friedhofen Chapel	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Old town	1854	Chapel of the first mother house of the Barmherzigen Brüder von Maria Hilf , an order founded by Peter Friedhofen	Cultural monument, world heritage
Wendelinus Chapel	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Pfaffendorf		Testimony of popular piety	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Aldegundis	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Arzheim	15th century	Reconstruction and expansion of the church in 1900–1901 and 1970–1971	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Anthony	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Lützel	1968-1969	First Antoniuskirche was built between 1899–1900 and destroyed in the Second World War, new building at a different location
St. Antonius Hermit	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Güls - Bisholder	1764 (?)	First mention of a previous chapel in 1546, a branch of St. Servatius	Cultural monument
St. Beatus	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Karthaus	1951-1953	First church building in the high part of the city, built in the tradition of the Benedictines and Carthusians, who worshiped St. Beatus here
St. Bruno	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Karthaus	1969
St. Elisabeth	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church , youth church	Rauental	1953-1954	Built according to plans by Dominikus and Gottfried Böhm , the free-standing bell tower was built in 1962	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Erasmus	Christianity	Catholic	Branch church	Immendorf	1938-1940	Filial church of St. Nikolaus , patronage goes back to a chapel built around 1675 on the village square of Immendorf (renewed in 1891, demolished in 1945)
St. Francis	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Gold mine	1968-1969
St. Hedwig	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Karthaus	1973-1974
St. John's beheading	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Metternich	around 1204	New Baroque church building from 1914–1916, late Romanesque west tower built around 1204, church with two steeples	Cultural monument
St. Joseph	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Southern suburb	1900-1903	Neo-Gothic church built by the Düsseldorf architect Josef Kleesattel , in an important urban development location as the center of the southern expansion of the city, with over 90 m tallest church tower in the city	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Joseph	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Moselle white	1860-1861	originally orphanage chapel, since 1923 chapel of the Kemperhof hospital	Cultural monument
St. Conrad	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Metternich	1956-1964
St. Laurence	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Moselle white	around 1107	Late Romanesque pillar basilica around 1200 with an important late Gothic pulpit, tower built around 1107	Cultural monument, Hague Convention
St. Martin	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Kesselheim	12th Century	Romanesque tower comes from a previous church from the 12th century, expressionist church building from 1933	Cultural monument
St. Martin	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Pfaffendorfer Höhe	1968-1971	Erected in a newly built residential area in the 1960s
St. Martinus	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Lay	13th Century	Romanesque church with extension from the 1920s, crypt of a probably older church	Cultural monument, Hague Convention
St. Mauritius	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Rübenach	1862-1866	One of the few churches with a brick steeple	Cultural monument, Hague Convention
St. Maternus	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Bubenheim	1908-1909	Predecessor elsewhere by 1052, branch of St. Mauritius	Cultural monument
St. Maximin	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Horchheim	1916-1918	Remarkable neo-baroque building with paintings from the time of construction and Romanesque west tower	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Menas	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Stolzenfels	1826-1833	First chapel from 1197, which received the unusual Menas patronage in 1328, the only one north of the Alps, today's church built according to plans by Johann Claudius von Lassaulx	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Nicholas	Christianity	Catholic	Pilgrimage church	Arenberg	1860-1872	Neo-Romanesque pillar basilica with fittings made of mineralogical stones, the center of religious structures with depictions of biblical scenes in a romantic landscape garden, designed by the local pastor Johann Baptist Kraus between 1844 and 1860	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Pancras	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Niederberg	1802-1806	Previous building from the 11th century, expanded in 1959	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Peter	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Neuendorf	1723-1725	The originally towerless hall was expanded in 1912–1915	Cultural monument
St. Peter and Paul	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Pfaffendorf	14th Century	A previous church can be occupied until the early 14th century, today's building from 1901–1903	Cultural monument, world heritage
St. Sebastianus	Christianity	Catholic	chapel	Guls	1866	Built as a result of a cholera epidemic	Cultural monument
Alt-St. Servatius	Christianity	Catholic	profane	Guls	12./13. century	First parish church in Güls	Cultural monument
St. Servatius	Christianity	Catholic	Parish church	Guls	1833-1840	New building after the old Servatius Church became too small	Cultural monument, Hague Convention
Arenberg Monastery	Christianity	Dominicans	monastery	Arenberg	1864
Bethlehem Monastery	Christianity	Capuchin Sisters of Eternal Adoration	monastery	Pfaffendorf	1904	New founding of sisters from the Maria Hilf monastery in Mainz	Cultural monument, world heritage
Capuchin monastery Koblenz	Christianity	Capuchin	monastery	Ehrenbreitstein	1627-1629	Capuchin monastery with St. Francis Church, the only baroque church preserved in Koblenz's urban area, typical Capuchin church with Loreto chapel and remarkable furnishings from the 18th century, monastery was closed in 2008	Cultural monument, world heritage
Maria Trost Monastery	Christianity	Sisters of the Good Shepherd	monastery	Kesselheim	1888	The monastery was closed and the building was blown up in 1988
Pallottine Monastery Koblenz	Christianity	Pallottines	monastery	Ehrenbreitstein	1893	The monastery was closed in 1978	Cultural monument, world heritage
Salesian convent Koblenz	Christianity	Salesians	monastery	Moselle white	1863	The monastery was dissolved in 1986 and the monastery church was taken over by the Society of St. Pius X.	Cultural monument
Synagogue Koblenz	Judaism		synagogue	Rauental	1925	Church of the Jewish community of Koblenz and the surrounding districts, former mourning hall of the adjoining Jewish cemetery , converted into a synagogue in 1947	Cultural monument, world heritage
Emir Sultan Mosque	Islam	Sunnis	mosque	Lützel	1965	The prayer room is maintained by the Turkish Employees' Association (member of Ditib ) for guest workers of Turkish origin, housed at Schüllerplatz since 1990, moved to Theo-Mackeben-Strasse in May 2015
Suleymaniye Mosque	Islam	Sunnis	mosque	Neuendorf	1979	The prayer room is maintained by the Koblenz Educational and Cultural Association (member of the VIKZ ) for guest workers of Turkish origin, initially located in Straße Am Ufer, and since the mid-1990s in Nauweg
Tahir mosque	Islam	Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat	mosque	Lützel	2002-2004	First Islamic sacred building in Koblenz
Bosnian mosque	Islam	Sunnis	mosque	Neuendorf	2007	Prayer room maintained by the Islamic Bosnian Community (member of the IGBD ) for war refugees of Bosnian origin
Aqsa mosque	Islam	Sunnis	mosque	Lützel	2009–2012	The mosque is maintained by the association “Pak Dar-ul-Islam ” mainly for Muslims of Pakistani origin
Abu Bakkr Mosque	Islam	Sunnis	mosque	Lützel	2011	The prayer room is maintained by the “Association of Islamic Culture Koblenz” mainly for Muslims from Arab countries
Buddhist monastery	Buddhism		pagoda	Horchheim	2015	A pagoda will be set up for Vietnamese Buddhists in the former Catholic Kolping House, and two nuns will live in this Buddhist monastery

Destroyed sacred buildings

The preserved rococo portal of the Dominican monastery in Weißer Gasse

Crypt of the monastery church of the Koblenz Charterhouse , archaeological excavation in the courtyard of the Grand Duke Constantine Fort

The memorial for the destroyed St. Bernhard parish church in Koblenz-Wallersheim

• Barbarakloster

Monastery with a simple, single-nave Augustinian church in Löhrstrasse ( old town ), built in 1708, secularized in 1802, the monastery was demolished in 1930.

• Benedictine convent

Convent of the Benedictine nuns on the Rhine island Oberwerth since 1142, secularized in 1802, later sold and partly to teachers seminar building rebuilt, eliminating the last remnants of the 1930s.

• Dominican monastery

Gothic Dominican monastery in Weißer Gasse in the old town , founded in 1233, secularized in 1802, severe damage in an air raid in World War II, completely demolished by 1958, only the rococo portal from 1754 remained. The holy figures of the Madonna, St. Dominic and Thomas Aquinas above the gate were recreated in 1967 based on the original torsos .

• Franciscan monastery

Founded by the Franciscans in the 13th century between the St. Kastor Abbey and the Kornpforte , secularized in 1802, then hospital for the sick, forerunner of the Kemperhof hospital , destroyed in the air raids in World War II, ruins completely removed in 1957.

• Carmelite Church

Church building with Carmelite monastery , built from 1668 to 1687, secularized in 1802, afterwards the church served as a Prussian garrison church and the monastery building as a prison, badly damaged in an air raid in World War II, demolition and demolition despite the ability to rebuild in the mid-1950s.

• Carthusian monastery

Founded in the 12th century by the Benedictines on the Beatusberg, today Karthaus , in 1241 it was consecrated to Saints Beatus and Servatius, in 1331 the Order of the Carthusians took over the monastery, secularized in 1802, after being sold to Prussia in 1818, the monastery was demolished and the Fort Grand Duke Constantine built over.

• Parish Church of St. Antonius , Koblenz-Lützel

Built in 1889/90 in the street An der Ringmauer , badly destroyed in the Second World War, demolished in 1954, new building elsewhere.

• Parish Church of St. Bernhard , Koblenz-Wallersheim

The church was built around 1200 and destroyed in the Second World War in 1945, a stone tablet commemorates the church.

• Markenbildchen-Kapelle , Koblenz-Südliche Vorstadt

A St. Mary's Chapel inaugurated on July 2, 1851 at the intersection of Markenbildchenweg / Hohenzollernstraße, destroyed in the Second World War in 1944 and not rebuilt, the miraculous image erected there around 1720 is now in the parish church of St. Josef

• Synagogue at the Bürresheimer Hof

In the pogrom night of November 9th / 10th November 1938, the synagogue at Bürresheimer Hof was completely devastated, as was the Jewish cemetery in Koblenz-Rauental .

See also

• List of churches and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate

literature

• Fritz Michel : The churches of the city of Koblenz (The church monuments of the city of Koblenz. The art monuments of the Rhine province, Volume 20, 1st department) , Düsseldorf 1937, 332 pp., Ill.
• Herbert Dellwing (arr.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.1: City of Koblenz. Southern suburb and Oberwerth. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986. ISBN 3-590-31033-2 .
• Herbert Dellwing and Reinhard Kallenbach (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.2: City of Koblenz. Downtown. Speyer 2004, ISBN 3-88462-198-X .
• Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .

Web links

Commons : Sacred buildings in Koblenz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Catholic parish of St. Kastor
• Catholic parish of Liebfrauen
• Catholic parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Catholic parish of St. Josef
• Catholic parish office Maria-Hilf
• Arenberg Monastery
• Evangelical Community Association Koblenz
• Evangelical in Koblenz
• Protestant parish Koblenz-Mitte
• Jewish community of Koblenz
• New Apostolic Church Community Koblenz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The oldest mosque dates from the time of the guest workers . In: Rhein-Zeitung , January 31, 2015
2. ↑ In the Suleymaniye Mosque, prayers are in Turkish . In: Rhein-Zeitung , February 21, 2015
3. ↑ Bosnians live in Koblenz liberal Islam . In: Rhein-Zeitung , February 18, 2015
4. ↑ Pakistanis in particular pray in magnificent mosques . In: Rhein-Zeitung , February 5, 2015
5. ↑ Stephanie Mersmann: Abu-Bakkr-Mosque in Koblenz-Lützel mainly attracts young people . In: Rhein-Zeitung , February 10, 2015, accessed on October 5, 2017.
6. ^ Doris Schneider: Kolping House in Koblenz-Horchheim is "reborn" as a pagoda . In: Rhein-Zeitung , March 31, 2015, accessed on October 5, 2017.
7. ↑ Harald Rausch: Dominikus and Thomas von Aquin in the old town (picture description) . In: Festschrift 9. Altstadtkirmes 2000, pp. 89–90.
8. ^ Ortwin Reich: From Beatusberg to Fort Konstantin . Koblenz, 1997 (pdf; 4.3 MB).
   Reinhard Schmid: St. Beatusberg Monastery (Koblenz) . In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on October 6, 2017.
9. ^ Parish council St. Josef: The brand image in the St. Josefskirche Koblenz. (pdf; 1.7 MB) In: Website of the parish of St. Josef. September 16, 2000, archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; accessed on October 6, 2017 .