St. Clemens (Trittenheim)
The Church of St. Clemens is the parish church of Trittenheim on the Moselle .
The predecessor churches
A visitation protocol from 1569 shows a church in Trittenheim. In the files of Trier Auxiliary Bishop Lothar Friedrich von Nalbach , there is a record of a church consecration on October 2, 1736. There are obviously no detailed descriptions and no floor plan of a previous church from 1722. It is also not known whether it is identical to the church from 1569. Remnants of the foundations in the cemetery east of the church tower suggest, however, that there was a predecessor of today's church, which was built in an east-west direction. The nave of that time probably went up to today's eastern cemetery wall, and the tower was the western end of the church at that time. The lower part of the tower is also much older than the rest of the tower.
The right of collation for the parish lay with the Abbey of St. Matthias zu Trier and its abbot Wilhelm Henn (1659-1727). From 1704 to 1750 the pastoral office in Trittenheim was performed by Philipp Jacob Zwang.
New building from 1790
As early as 1773, only around 50 years after the construction of the new building from 1722, significant deficiencies in the church were identified in a visitation protocol: The condition of the nave, choir, tower, floor and benches are said to have been at the end ( in debita structura ). The construction defects were presumably due to poor workmanship ("botch in the building"). Here, those traditionally required to maintain and maintain the church were listed: For the pews, the floor, the tower and the roof (according to a visitation protocol from 1609) the parish, for the nave and choir ( ad navem et chorum ), the Abbey of St. Matthias was responsible for at least 1147. In a document from that year from Pope Eugene III. († 1153) the abbey was given a homestead in Trittenheim and the church along with the associated tithe rights . Thus, the abbots were also allowed to appoint the local pastor, but also had the obligation to look after the church and the pastors. In addition to the St. Matthias Abbey, the Trier elector and archbishop had a second basic right at the time the church was rebuilt in 1790, Johann Philipp von Walderdorff (1701–1768). In favor of the structural preservation of the choir, this elector allocated a third of his tithe to the pastor at the time, Anton Joseph Michael Werner (1720–1772), who had been pastor in Trittenheim since 1765, on February 10, 1762. After Werner's death in 1772, Johann J. Braun took over his office. In 1786 it was finally decided to build a new building in which essential parts of the tower would continue to be used.
In 1790 the foundation stone was laid by the prior of the Benedictine abbey, Father Quintinus Werner (1722- ~ 1800), who was also born in Trittenheim. He was the younger brother of the aforementioned pastor AJM Werner and was born as Jacobus Werner. A certificate with the following chronogram was closed in the foundation stone he laid : D eo V ero pater pr I or q VI nt I n V s VV erner tr I the MIV s h V n C L o C abat (The true God laid here the reason [for a church] Pater Prior Quintinus Werner [from] Trittenheim). After three years of construction, the church was consecrated and consecrated the following year . The old church was demolished in the course of the new building. Only rubble remains of the foundation east of the church tower are evidence of it.
building
The new church, built in a north-south direction due to lack of space elsewhere, is a hall church . The exterior design of the vessel is characterized by four pillars of sandstone , the group the six windows to each side three pairs each. A semicircular choir is built on the north side, the outside of which is also subdivided with pilasters and gives it the appearance of half a hexagonal room. Pilasters at the corners also shape the appearance of the south side of the nave, on which the tower stands. All pilasters rest on a pedestal measuring 180 cm wide and 60 cm deep, on which a double-stepped plinth and a bulbous shaft base rest. The pilaster shaft ends in a simple projecting capital . The cornice , which adjoins the top, runs around the tower and the nave. The frieze on this is unadorned and has an eaves cornice that also surrounds the tower and nave.
The slate-covered gable roof is roughly flatter in the lower area and designed as a triple hipped roof at the northern end over the choir . In the lower roof area, three gable dormers are embedded over the long sides of the ship . A dormer sits above the choir. The northern end of the roof ridge is decorated with a monstrance- like cross. The tower roof, which is also slate-covered, has a square base that merges into an octagonal, pointed roof shape. The top bears the tower ball , on it a cross similar to its counterpart on the nave, and a golden rooster as a weather vane . The south side of the nave is attached to the central tower. On both sides of the tower are two portals that were broken during the last renovation in 1963/64. Before you entered the church through the still existing tower portal. Today it is barred and contains a representation of the Immaculate Conception . There used to be a spiral staircase to a no longer existing floor. The bells could be started from here. A small, simple arched window at this height looks to the east, a larger, more elaborately designed arched window is built into the south side of the tower. The third floor of the tower was added in 1842. It contains the bells and the clockwork. The sound of the bells reaches the parish in all directions through four coupled round arch twin windows. Above the windows are the clock faces of the tower clock, which are about the same diameter as the width of the window and above which a semicircular overlapping arch is attached.
The bells
Three bells can be heard from the tower. A visitation log from 1832 lists two bells from 1482 and one, the smallest, from 1085, the latter date possibly being a misunderstanding or a typo. In 1841 bell founders from Trier, the brothers Johannes Benedikt and Nicolaus Gaulard, cast three new bells, using the old bells as material. The manufacture of the bells, as well as the organ at the time, was largely financed by the Trier cathedral capitular Engelbert Schue , who was born in Trittenheim . The bells were inaugurated on October 25th. The heaviest bell had a weight of 800 kg and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the second bell with a weight of 600 km was dedicated to St. Clemens and the third (430 kg) to the "patron saint" Laurentius , whose name is still a chapel above of the place in the vineyards. The two smaller bells had to be delivered in the First World War. As early as 1920, however, the community had raised the financial means for their replacement. In the Second World War, only the big bell from 1841 “survived”; the community could only afford two new bells in 1948.
Window of the nave
The current windows were inserted in 1922 and adorn the texts of the eight Beatitudes of the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 5, 3-12), of which only the first part of the sentence, as well as illustrations of Bible scenes that can be seen in a certain relation to the texts. The artistic window glazing comes from the company Binsfeld-Dornoff, workshops for glass design in Trier.
- Church window
Text: Blessed are
the poor in spirit
Image: Poor Lazarus
Text: Blessed are
those who are hungry and thirsty
Image: Jesus with Mary and Martha
Text: Blessed are
the meek
Image: Entry into Jerusalem
Text: Blessed are
the merciful
Image: Good Samaritan
Text: Blessed are
those who suffer persecution.
Image: Stephen was stoned to death
Text: Blessed are
the pure of heart
Picture: Adoration of the shepherds
Text: Blessed are
the peaceful
Image: Adoration of the Magi
Text: Blessed are
the mourners
Image: Prodigal Son
Interior
The choir houses the high altar, flanked by two side altars. All altars are made of wood, but have a painting that makes them look like marble. Between the windows and on the organ prospect, there are late baroque wooden statues on consoles, which were made in the workshop of Johannes Neudecker the Elder. J. from Hadamar . The altar contains a tabernacle building in the middle with two cabinets: a small, lower one, which is used to hold the hosts that are walked at Holy Mass , which according to Catholic belief are the body of Christ . The larger cupboard above contains the monstrance . The tabernacle building is built into the reredos in the center. The presence of the hosts is indicated by an eternal light . The cabinet doors of both cabinets are richly decorated. A larger than life figure of Christ on the cross rises above the altar . The tabernacle is flanked by two winged angels floating on volutes . The side parts of the altar are characterized by pillar elements with attached pairs of columns. A cornice rests on it, which has a curvature of volutes. At the top are statues of the martyrs Catherine of Alexandria and Lucia of Syracuse . The two side altars, which are modeled on the high altar in their design, are the mother of Jesus (eastern side) and St. Dedicated to Joseph (western side). The oldest piece of furniture in the church is the sandstone baptismal font from 1626 in the central aisle, the baptismal font of which is covered by a gold-colored dome. The organ, of which only the prospectus remained on the gallery on the south wall, dates from 1840 and comes from the workshop of the famous Stumm family of organ builders from Rhaunen .
restoration
In the early 1960s, at the same time as the Second Vatican Council , the building was extensively restored.
graveyard
The church is still surrounded by a large cemetery. At its southeast corner is a small cemetery chapel, on the outer wall of which there is a plague cross with the following inscription:
- A ° 1654 ZVR HONOR TO THE MOST HOLY TRINITY THIS KREVTZ AVFRICHTEN LEAVE THE HONEST JAKOB DRIESCH VND HIS HAVSFRAW MARIA.
literature
- Christoph Schmitt: A 200 year old new building , Trittenheim 1994, issue 2 of TRITHEMIENSIA - contributions to the local history of Trittenheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 22.5 ″ N , 6 ° 54 ′ 3.7 ″ E