St. Maximin (Rommersheim)

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Late Gothic St. Maximin Church

St. Maximin is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Rommersheim parish in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Gothic interior
baroque high altar

The building is entered in the list of cultural monuments in Rommersheim and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Maximin von Trier .

history

Parish

The Rommersheim parish is one of the oldest parishes in the Prüm region and is the mother parish of 17 independent parishes today, which were gradually separated from the 13th century. The parish was first mentioned in a document in 1063. This year the church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Trier, Eberhard . The document also mentions that the establishment of an independent parish was carried out earlier, but without a bishop's act. Before the parish was raised, the church belonged to Prüm as a separate church alongside Mettendorf , Büdesheim and Seffern . The abbess of the Benedictine Abbey of Niederprümhas been the collator of the altar since at least the 16th century . Until around 1800 the parish belonged to the Deanery Bitburg and then fell to the rural chapter of Kyllburg established by the French. Later Rommersheim belonged to the Deanery of Prüm.

Since 2004 the parish has belonged to the newly founded Dean's Office of St. Willibrord Westeifel. The Ellwerath and Giesdorf branches with the St. Apollinaris chapel still belong to the current parish area .

Church building

Nothing more is known about the church mentioned in 1063. Today's Rommersheim church dates back to 1498 in its oldest parts and was built in the late Gothic style. In 1816 the three-storey bell tower was added to the hall church to replace an older one . At the beginning of the 20th century, the three-bay hall church with a rectangular choir became too small for the church service community. Then the planned Trier architect Julius Wirtz in terms of reform architecture a transept for the existing church. The new transept was built from 1927 to 1929. For this purpose, the late Gothic rectangular choir was removed and rebuilt true to the original on the east side of the transept. A sacristy was built around the choir in connection with the transept construction.

Furnishing

From the equipment the are Baroque high altar dating from around 1715 with partitions from 1728 and a confessional in the style of Rococo from himself time to mention. The font was created in 1711. The star vault inside the church is also worth seeing.

  • St. Maximinus (1715)

  • Partition (1728)

  • Baptismal font (1711)

  • Ceiling decor

  • Vault rib coat of arms

  • Star vault in the choir

  • Antependium

Web links

Commons : St. Maximin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Marx: History of the parishes of the Diocese of Trier. Volume I: General, Trier 1923, pp. 89, 95, 97, 149 and 180.
  2. ^ Entry on St. Maximin in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ Rommersheim website
  4. ↑ Peter Oster: History of the Parishes of the Deanery Prüm-Waxweiler, Trier 1927, p. 167 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 34.6 "  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 51.3"  E