St. Quiriacus and Auctor
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The Church of St. Quiriacus and Auctor is a Roman Catholic church in Taben-Rodt , a local community in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate. It bears the patronage of both St. Quiriakus, a priest monk of the Trier Abbey of St. Maximin , and of St. Auctor , an early Christian Bishop of Trier. The church building is listed as an individual monument in the list of monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate.
history
The first written mention of the place Taben was in the oldest document of the Rhineland, the will of Adalgisel Grimo in 634.
In 768, Pippin the Younger donated his share of Taben to the Abbey of St. Maximin, whose monks established a settlement there that same year.
In the year 769 a large part of the bones of St. Quiriakus have been transferred to Taben. This is where the centuries-old tradition of local Quiriakus worship goes back, which is celebrated through an annual pilgrimage (fair).
The church "Quiriacum ad Attavanum" (St. Quiriacus in Taben) was mentioned for the first time in the will of the Lorraine Countess Erkanfrida in 853, when she bequeathed money to the church. The church fell into disrepair during Bishop Milo's tenure . In 1056, the reconstruction began under Abbot Theodorikus von St. Maximin, also with the support of Emperor Heinrich III. Archbishop Udo (1066-1078) inaugurated the new church. At this celebration the patronage of St. Auctor in Taben and since then the church has had the current name “St. Quiriacus and Auctor ”.
The Romanesque choir is dated to the 11th century.
In 1487/88, the church previously owned by the parish was incorporated into the monastery in Taben at the request of Abbot Otto von Elten (1483–1502) with the approval of Pope Innocent VIII . In 1501 the monks began to demolish the church (with the exception of the Romanesque choir), which was rebuilt in a new style (with cross vaults ).
At the end of the 17th century, the monastery church “St. Quiriacus ”the parish church“ St. Hubertus “cultivated. In 1724, under Abbot Paccius von St. Maximin (1719–1731), a further renovation took place, due to the installation of a wine cellar under the nave of the monastery church. In 1751 the roof turret received a new bell.
Under Pastor Liell (1889–1907 pastor in Taben-Rodt), the choir was decorated with large-format wall paintings depicting the life of St. Quiriacus illustrated and the nave painted with Christian motifs. In 1890 the bones of St. Quiriakus examined and classified in the presence of an episcopal commissioner by the Royal District Physician, Medical Councilor Hecking. After the survey, at the instigation of Pastor Liell in 1890, the relics were placed in an artistically designed wooden shrine, visible under the altar. The last elevation of the bones of St. Quiriakus took place in 2007 on the occasion of an episcopally approved removal of relic parts and the like. a. for the church of St. Quiriakus in the Mechern district of Merzig.
After the church survived the Second World War without major damage, it was destroyed to the ground by arson in March 1945, together with the attached monastery buildings .
After the war, the reconstruction took place according to the plans of the architect Marx from Trier, whereby the nave was lengthened somewhat and the church received a bell tower instead of the previous roof ridge . The portal from 1724 was built into the newly constructed west wall true to the original. After extensive renovations in the years 1965 to 1995 and 2005 to 2007 and 2018, the church received its current appearance.
In 2019, the "Parish of St. Quiriacus and Auctor" celebrated an anniversary year with numerous events on the occasion of the 1250th anniversary of the transfer of the remains of St. Quiriacus to Taben-Rodt.
Furnishing
The church's equipment includes a. the two shrines of Saints Quiriakus and Auctor, with only the bones of St. Quiriakus are carried in procession through the town every year to the fair (5th Easter Sunday).
After the turmoil of the war, only simple windows were installed. It was not until the renovation in 1966 that the three choir windows were replaced by artistically designed motif windows (Prof. E. Kraemer, Trier). The rest of the motif windows (pictures from the life of St. Quiriakus) were installed in 1992 and 1993.
The organ (Sebald, Trier) dates from 1967. After its restoration in 2016, the organ was inaugurated again in January 2017 by Dean Klaus Feid.
The large choir cross, acquired in 1968, was designed by the artist Werner Persy, Trier.
Others
When the bones of St. Quiriakus, an artfully woven dalmatic was found in the marble sarcophagus , the creation of which is dated by experts to the time of translation (769). This valuable dalmatic is kept in the Episcopal Diocesan Museum in Trier.
The bones of St. Auctor were found in 1889 during renovation work in a limestone sarcophagus under the high altar. When the bones were surveyed in 1890, they were also cataloged and placed in a separate wooden shrine for further storage and display. The two wooden shrines with the bones survived the devastating fire at the end of the war unscathed, because prudent Taben citizens had buried the two shrines outside the parish church during the war.
literature
- Herrmann F. Josef Liell: The Church of St. Quiriacus, their history and their sanctuaries. Trier, 1895
- Chronicle of Taben-Rodt, From the history and life of the people in a village on the lower Saar, head and coordinator of the “Ortschronik” working group and responsible for the content: Josef Brittnacher; Authors: Oswald Biewer, Josef Brittnacher, Hubert Fehr, Heinrich Gansemer, editors: Ortsgemeinde Taben-Rodt, published in 2003
- Adam Goerz: Mittelrheinische Regesten (MRR): or chronological compilation of the source material for the history of the territories of the two administrative districts of Koblenz and Trier. 1974, Volume I, pp. 288, 367, 368, 579
- Johann Nicolaus von Hontheim: Historiae Trevirensis diplomaticae et pragmaticae […]. Page 1032
- Chronicle of the parish of St. Quiriacus and Auctor Taben-Rodt ("parish chronicle")
- Bernd Heinz: The Church of St. Quiriakus in Taben-Rodt. Taben-Rodt, 2nd edition, 2019, 316 pages
- Bernd Heinz: Emigrants from Taben - From Taben to America 1850-1899. Taben-Rodt 2017, 308 pages
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate, Directory of Cultural Monuments, Trier-Saarburg District, page 42
- ↑ Info ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: www.lha-rlp.de. Retrieved February 19, 2016
- ↑ Trier City Library, ARCH.MAX. XIII, pages 137-139, Pontifical privilege of January 19, 1488
- ^ Joseph SJ Braun: The liturgical garment in Occident and Orient according to origin and development, use and symbolism. Freiburg, 1907
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 47.7 " N , 6 ° 35 ′ 52.4" E