Look around you
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| “Look around you” with a view of the cathedral | |
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| place | trier |
| District | center |
| Hist. Names | Sängersgäßchen |
| Connecting roads | Cattle Dance Street |
| Places | Domfreihof |
Look around you is a street in downtown Trier not far from Trier Cathedral . It connects the Domfreihof with the Rindestanzstraße . It is a short lane located in the cathedral immunity , which, together with the southern section of Liebfrauenstrasse, follows a Roman cardo . At least since the construction of the gatehouse of today's Dompropstei (Domfreihof 4) around the middle of the 17th century, the alley flanked by high curia walls has turned at a fairly right angle into the Domfreihof.
history
The alley was first named platea cantoris ( Sängersgäßchen ) in 1571 after the curia of the cathedral cantor located there. The street derives its current name, which has been handed down since the 18th century, from an inscription of the same name on a lintel that is walled up in the adjoining Bering wall of the Domfreihof 3 property. The street name may have been used as a warning call for those who crossed the border of two legal districts here.
building
The cathedral , which lies in a northerly direction in a constant viewing direction, is a defining feature of the street scene. The only significant building on the street is the Eich house.
House Eich
The Curia zur Eiche or Zur (large) oak is also located on the street. The house name goes back to the early 14th century, presumably to Canon Walter von Eich or to Matthäus von Eich, who was mentioned as cathedral dean in 1340. The main house of the curia was rebuilt around 1770 under the choir bishop Franz Joseph Schenk von Schmidtburg . Since then, the curia has also been known by his name. In the entirety of its buildings - with the main house, chapel, farm and coach house wing with gate entrance and a gazebo, the monument is a typical example of a canon’s courtyard. The main house of the curia was built on a Romanesque previous building. Similar to the building at Domfreihof 2, the ground floor was lowered as a basement with an intermediate ceiling resting on consoles. Today's vault was probably built in the Baroque era. On the north side, above the basement level, there is a narrow, only fragmentarily preserved, corridor-like complex. Also noteworthy is an underground, barrel-vaulted (almost completely buried) corridor that leads to the cathedral through a Romanesque arch on the south side of the cellar.
The rococo furnishings have been preserved inside the house . The angled platform staircase with carved railings should also be highlighted. Under the coved stucco ceilings, which are partially decorated with corner and central oval grooves, the one in the eastern upper floor room with the Schmidtburg coat of arms held by a horse should be mentioned. There are several corner fireplaces and old doors, including double-leaf doors, in the building. Chapel ad Quercum (Zur Eiche) was built on the Dombering wall in 1199 . Originally it was probably opened as a cemetery chapel. However, from the 13th century it served as a house chapel, which means that it is now part of the Haus Eiche building. Apparently at the same time as the chapel was built there is an epigraphically interesting majusc inscription on a console of the eastern choir wall: ELEM GERLACI (elemosyna Gerlaci, perhaps identical to the Koblenz Ministerial Gerlacus mentioned 1182–1209).
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c 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 .
- ↑ Entry on Look around you in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 11, 2016.
- ^ 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).
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 26.6 " N , 6 ° 38 ′ 37.7" E