Paulusplatz (Trier)

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The Paulusplatz is a place in the Trier city center . It connects at the intersection of Dietrichstrasse with Oerenstrasse and Hieronymus-Jaegen-Strasse. The campus of the same name of the Trier University of Applied Sciences is located on the square .

Origin of name

The square derives its name from the parish church of St. Paul , dedicated to the apostle Paul of Tarsus , which is located on the square.

Cultural monuments

There are several cultural monuments around the square . In addition, a large part of the square is a monument zone . Some of the buildings in the square are explained in more detail below.

Parish Church of St. Paul

The eponymous parish church St. Paulus is a stately neo-Romanesque transept basilica with a corner tower that shapes the cityscape. In the parish church is the grave of Hieronymus Jaegen , a Trier clergyman and mystic.

Rectory of St. Paul

Rectory

The rectory of St. Paulus is a creative copy of a previous Gothic gable house, which was used as a city hospital and was demolished in 1907, based on a design by the architect and master builder Julius Wirtz . The new building was completed in the same year. It is a two-and-a-half-storey plastered building with sandstone structure. The gable front, which was rebuilt using the historical garb, was equipped with a high plinth opposite the facade of the previous building, which was adapted to the outer skin of the neighboring St. Paul's Church with its sandstone rustication. From the abandoned building, a lateral portal wall, presumably dating from the 16th century, with rosette decoration at the arched base and a younger, narrow rectangular wall on the opposite side were reused on the ground floor. A floor window from the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance was installed between the newly added entrances . The lintel forms two round arches cut into by a rectangular frame, in each of which a three-pass arch is inscribed; However, these are no longer original and have since been replaced by copies. Older, from around the 14th century, and still preserved in its original form is the group of four windows next to it on the ground floor, the lintels of which are decorated with relieved cloverleaf arches, as are the triple windows on the first floor that have been moved to the side above a cornice and the twin windows on the lower gable floor . The central chimney, which only emerges on the first floor and rises next to the ridge purlin, apparently dates from the same period and whose sandstone console is decorated with tracery.

Apart from its facade, the rectory presents itself as a picturesque new building with a relaxed roof landscape enlivened by small dormers. Most of the sandstone walls of the surrounding walls facing away from the street are designed as stick or cross-stick windows. Only a few windows use historical garments: a late Gothic lintel with a keel arch and coat of arms on the upper floor window of the east wall, a lintel with late Gothic branches as a pressed three-pass arch on the ground floor window of the west wall, as well as parts of chamfered window frames in the hipped south gable. The gate entrance, completely rebuilt in 1907 with ribbed vaults and a crenellated overbuilding creates a special accent here. Together with the Pauluskirche, the building forms an ensemble that characterizes the square in the echoes of late historicism . The rectory, which was rebuilt as a monument to a Gothic Trier town house with an ideally reconstructed gable facade, is an outstanding contemporary document of the early local cityscape and monument preservation.

Former arts and crafts school

Former arts and crafts school

The building of the former arts and crafts school on the north side of the city opposite the parish church St, Paulus, which is now part of the Trier University of Applied Sciences, is a defining feature of the square. The building dates from the early 20th century. The architect was Baldwin Schilling . It is a three-storey monumental building with a slate hipped roof. It forms an elongated, eaves-standing class wing. There is a side elevation on the eastern facade of the building, to the west the wing closes with a rounded front end.

At the main entrance to the stairwell, a porch arranged in the corner accentuated, which was demolished around 1930 when the entrance to the center of the facade was relocated. A rear, single-storey extension has also been removed, which has been replaced by a new staircase to a modern school building in the northwest.

The stately school building is a remarkable example of a factual neoclassicism . It is also one of the oldest reinforced concrete skeleton structures in Trier's old town.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Zenz: Street names of the city of Trier: their sense and their meaning . Ed .: Culture Office of the City of Trier. 5th edition. Trier 2006, DNB  455807825 (1st edition 1961).
  2. ↑ Patrick Ostermann (arrangement): City of Trier. Old town. (=  Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 17.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-171-8 .
  3. ^ Entry on St. Paulus (Catholic parish church, Trier, Mitte-Gartenfeld) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on November 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ Entry on Sankt Paulus - Hieronymus-Jaegen-Grab (monument zone Paulusplatz 1–6, Kalenfelsstraße 7) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on November 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c Entry on the rectory of Sankt Paulus (monument zone Paulusplatz 1–6, Kalenfelsstrasse 7) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on November 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b c Entry on former crafts and arts and crafts school (monument zone Paulusplatz 1–6, Kalenfelsstrasse 7) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on November 8, 2016.

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 31.2 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 7.3"  E