St. Maria and St. Martin (Trier-Pfalzel)

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Former collegiate church of St. Maria and St. Martin in Pfalzel
Map by Merian 1646
Roman arched windows in the transept of the church.
Roman masonry on the south side of the church.
Roman masonry on the facade of the sextonry.

The Catholic parish church of St. Maria and St. Martin is a former collegiate church in Trier - Pfalzel . The building is listed .

history

Adela , the daughter of St. Irmina , from the Arnulfinger family founded a Benedictine monastery around 700 , which later became a monastery. The village of Pfalzel had previously exchanged them for the caretaker Pippin . Adela was the first abbess , she subordinated the monastery to the Archbishop of Trier .

The southeast corner of the Roman Palatiolum with its high walls was used to build the church . A cross-shaped building was created. One arm was extended as a single nave long house . The choir was just finishing. The roof was flat. In order to put a stop to the decline of monastic breeding , Archbishop Poppo converted the women's monastery into a canon monastery in 1037 . He had the nave extended to the west. At the end of the 11th century, a semicircular apse was added from the demolition material from the Palatiolum . The vaulting with cross rib vaults took place around 1230 . A bell tower was built in 1500, this was demolished again in the early 19th century. Almost all the windows were enlarged in the 18th century to let more light into the building.

The monastery was abolished in 1802 and the church was auctioned . After several changes of ownership and uses as a barn and warehouse, it was bought by the parish in 1927 . In a new building between 1906 and 1908, under the direction of the cathedral builder Becker, the old church was included. The western cross arm was destroyed in 1944. Heinrich Otto Vogel rebuilt the church from 1962 to 1965 using the stylistic devices of the fifties and sixties. The previous church was preserved as a transept and the building was extended to three aisles.

The outside of the church is plain and simple. The apse is divided into five fields with round-arched panels by a round arch frieze and pilasters . A late Gothic vestibule with a baroque portal stands on the south side of the nave. The Marienkapelle adjoins the south transept, it was already part of the Roman-Franconian palatiolum. In the 13th century it was vaulted and in 1468 a choir was added.

Furnishing

  • Statue of the Mother of God from the 18th century depicting the immaculate conception .
  • Confessional with wood carvings
  • Shrine with relics of Adula
  • Tabernacle with biblical motifs on the sides and a motif typical of the Moselle. Christ enters the wine press . The shrine stands on a forged stele with an openwork pyramid roof .
  • Eight-seat choir stalls from the end of the 18th century stand behind the altar. It is decorated with laurel frames and pilasters.
  • Figures of the apostles Peter and Andrew above the choir stalls
  • Altarpiece from in the side chapel from 1542, in the middle there is a crucifixion group . The altar was donated by Johann Diungin, scholastic and canon of the local monastery and waiter of the Elector of Trier.
  • Images of St. Martin and St. Eligius in the left side niche
  • Ancestral coat of arms of Diungin, who died in 1557.
  • heavily damaged memorial plaque from 1600 from the workshop of Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann. It is consecrated to the dean and rector of the electoral university of Trier, Petrus Homphaeus.
  • Font in the baptistery by the sculptor Willy Hahn
  • Tomb of the Elector of Trier captain Pankratius Sauerzapf von Sulzbach, killed in 1568 in a battle in front of the Porta Nigra .
  • Virgin Mary statue from the 14th century. This is carved from reddish sandstone and about 1.10 meters high.
  • Statue of Saint Joseph from the 18th century.
  • Anna selbdritt from 1500 from a Swabian-South German workshop. In 1962 traces of the original version were found during a restoration .
  • Statue of Saint Eligius .
  • Cross above the main altar, it used to be used as a mission cross . It has been restored and stripped of several layers of paint.

organ

The organ was built in 2000 by the organ builder Metzler (Dietikon). The instrument has 30 registers and two transmissions on three manuals and pedal . The key action stop actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Reed flute 8th'
2. Praestant 4 ′
3. Wooden flute 4 ′
4th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Duplicate 2 ′
6th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
7th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Fittings 1'
9. Cromorne 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Bourdon 16 ′
11. Principal 8th'
12. Bourdon 8th'
13. viola 8th'
14th Octave 4 ′
15th Pointed flute 4 ′
16. Duplicate 2 ′
17th mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Cornett V 8th'
19th Trumpet 8th'
20th Clairon 4 ′
III Breastwork C – g 3
21st Dumped 8th'
22nd Salicional 4 ′
23. Reed flute 4 ′
24. Cornet II 2 1 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Vox humana 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
26th Sub bass 16 ′
27. Octave bass 8th'
28. Viola (No.13) 8th'
29 Octave 4 ′
30th trombone 16 ′
31. Trumpets 8th'
32. Clairon (# 20) 4 ′
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reclam's Art Guide Germany III, Monuments, Rhineland and Westphalia, 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 , pp. 609 and 610
  2. ^ Entry on St. Maria and St. Martin in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved February 25, 2016.
  3. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 51.2 "  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 40.8"  E