St. Maximin Refuge
The Refugium St. Maximin , also Hôtel Saint Maximin , in Luxembourg (city) was the local branch of the Trier Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin and is now the Foreign Ministry of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg .
Buildings and history
The imperial abbey of St. Maximin was wealthy in Luxembourg from the earliest times. Her Vogt, Count Siegfried I , founder of the city and the country of Luxembourg, acquired a Roman watchtower from her in 963, which he expanded into the Lucilinburhuc Castle , which is the nucleus of today's city.
Even after the town and country were founded, the St. Maximin Abbey remained present in Luxembourg with a branch or a monastery courtyard.
Today's Refugium St. Maximin , the former Luxembourg branch of the Trier Abbey, is located to the east of the former Jesuit church and today's Notre-Dame Cathedral . It is at 5 rue Notre-Dame and forms a corner with Clairefontaine Square.
The three-storey rectangular baroque building with the main entrance to Rue Notre-Dame, newly built in 1751 under Abbot Wilibrord Scheffer, has a stone with an inscription cartouche and the words "Refugium Abbatiae S. Maximini" on the front .
Two coat of arms stones are set into the west and east walls, which originate from the previous building from 1663. Both have the coat of arms of Abbot Maximinus von Gülich. On the western stone there is a Latin inscription which translates as: “Maximinus von Gülich from Sankt Vith, Abbot of Sankt Maximin, had the basement at the bottom with the building rising above it built from scratch in 1663.” On the eastern one In addition to the abbot's coat of arms, there is also the double eagle coat of arms of the Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin and the letters "M .GASMA 1663" ; they are an abbreviation for: "Maximinus Gülich Abbas Sancti Maximini Anno 1663"
The Luxembourg chronicler Friedrich Wilhelm Engelhardt reports that two monks from St. Maximin lived in the house at all times and, as the property of the abbey under the Empire, it was always the quarters of the princely persons from the House of Habsburg when they visited the city.
In 1802 the imperial abbey of St. Maximin was secularized. The French revolutionary government sold the Luxembourg refuge to private owners. In 1839 it was acquired by the German Confederation as the residence of its governor, who lived in the federal fortress . When Luxembourg left the German Confederation in 1866, the St. Maximin Refugium became the Luxembourg seat of government. The building is currently used as the Grand Duchy's Foreign Ministry . Today's main entrance is at the back and you can get to the site from Clairefontaine-Platz through a side courtyard portal.
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Engelhardt: History of the city and fortress of Luxembourg from its creation up to our day. Luxemburg, 1850, pp. 342–343, and 306
Web links
- Illustrated website for the St. Maximin Refugium in Luxembourg
- Website for the Refugium St. Maximin (lux.WP)
Individual evidence
- ^ Melanie Völker: City faces - Luxembourg. BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 384820200X , p. 6; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Website on Luxembourg inscriptions ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ digital scan
Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '35.9 " N , 6 ° 7' 55.1" E