St. Martinus (Trier-Zewen)
The St. Martinus Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Zewen , city of Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is consecrated to Martin von Tours .
history
Location: 49 ° 43 ′ 11 ″ N , 6 ° 34 ′ 39 ″ E
Today's Zewener parish church was built between 1957 and 1959. So that the altar , as in many new church buildings of that time, forms the center, the nave was kept wide and the side walls remained windowless. Only from the west side, from a huge choir window, and from a light lantern above the sanctuary, light penetrates the church hall. The sacristy was moved to the west choir so that the priest can walk through the entire congregation when entering. The roof construction allows a clear view of the sloping roof surfaces and the beams. The north side wall is three meters deep in the mountain, so the side entrance leads into the church via a staircase. Further extensions and extensions followed: in 1974 a Lady Chapel was built at the entrance to the church, in 1976 a larger than life crucifixion group was set up in the previously empty choir, 1977–1978 the inside of the church was clad with bricks, a new heating system installed and a new window on the south side collapsed, a new organ was installed in 1981, and construction work was completed in 1986 when the three bells of a newly built free-standing bell tower ( campanile ) rang.
Previous buildings
The first Zewen parish church stood on an embankment wall made of heavy stone houses at the confluence of Kirchenstrasse and Kordelstrasse (former location: 49 ° 43 ′ 23 ″ N , 6 ° 34 ′ 38 ″ E ). The location on the hill in the middle of a cemetery corresponded to the old parish church of Igel . The construction time of the church is unknown, the parish is first mentioned around 1330; it is assumed that the church was built around this time.
The appearance of the church is handed down from a court picture from the year 1589, which was painted on behalf of the Trier Elector Johann von Schöneberg and hangs in the Museum Simeonstift in Trier. After that it was a single-nave, small church, the nave of which carried a steeple visible from afar in the middle of the roof. When Zewen became an independent parish in 1805, the church was felt to be too small. It was demolished in 1819 after a new church was built. The cemetery was used until 1888, leveled in 1917 and the property was publicly auctioned in 1923.
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The second Zewen parish church was in the center of Zewen, at the intersection of Kirchenstrasse, Hohlstrasse and Dürerstrasse (former location: 49 ° 43 ′ 19 ″ N , 6 ° 34 ′ 45 ″ E ) and was consecrated in 1819. It was a four-axis hall building with a flat three-sided choir closure and a west tower that was visible from afar. The Zewener had undertaken a considerable amount of their own work in building this new church. Large quantities of building blocks and building blocks were brought in, the slate was brought to fur from the pit ; 25 fir trees came from the community forest. The community gathered in the new church for 126 years until, at the end of the Second World War, on January 13, 1945, when the devastating bomb attack on Trier, bombs also fell in Zewen. Though not hit directly, the roof and ceiling of the church collapsed from shock waves from bombs dropped in the neighborhood and destroyed all of the interior.
In 1948 the church was repaired again, without the decorations from the pre-war period. Although the service could be resumed at the end of 1948, the church soon proved to be too small due to the strong increase in population. Built in the middle of the village, surrounded by streets and houses, expansion was out of the question. This is how the third parish church was built on Lindscheidstrasse in 1959; the old church was to be converted into a parish hall. In 1961, however, a sewer was dug in the street behind the church, whereupon the foundations of the church began to slide. The choir was demolished and the church stabilized. But due to a lack of money and interest, the conversion to a parish hall failed; on May 2, 1975 the demolition of the second Zewener church began. On the unofficially called Alter Kirchplatz there is a parking lot and the beer garden of a neighboring restaurant. Only in 1998 was a memorial stone unveiled to commemorate the church.
Zewener bells
There are three bells hanging in the bell chamber of the Zewen church tower, and there is space for a fourth bell.
The dates of the bells in detail:
- Marienglocke, weight: 270 kg, cast: 1432
- Martinus bell, weight: 500 kg, cast: 1685 (recast 1978)
- Christ bell, weight: 850 kg, cast: 1978
The Zewen Chronicle shows that the small bell was not originally intended for Zewen; the exact origin can no longer be clarified. However, it seems certain that it was originally cast for a monastery or convent, as the word clerum can be found in the bell inscription . It is not known when the bell got to Zewen. This small bell never rings alone, but can only be heard together with the middle or with the middle and large bell.
The middle bell was made for the parish of Zewen; in the bell engraving the words "Parish Zewen 1685" can be found. It was "drafted" during the Second World War and was supposed to be melted down. Fortunately, she escaped this fate and was brought back to Zewen from a bell cemetery in Hamburg in 1948. In 1978 it turned out that it did not survive its “war mission” completely unscathed, but had got a crack and had to be poured over. It can be heard individually as a so-called prayer bell in the morning, at noon and in the evening.
The big bell was re-cast in 1978 to complete the ringing; individually it rings as a death knell.
The picture opposite shows all three bells on their makeshift bell cage, from which they rang from 1978 to 1986.
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