Simeon pen

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The Simeonstift was a collegiate monastery in Trier in the immediate vicinity of the Roman city gate Porta Nigra . It is named after the Greek monk Simeon von Trier . The monastery was abolished in 1802. The Simeonstift Trier City Museum is now housed in the former monastery buildings.

The monastery was built after 1035. Simeon von Trier settled down as a hermit in the Porta Nigra after 1028 . Allegedly he let himself be walled in there. After his death on June 1, 1035, he was buried on the ground floor and probably canonized at Christmas that same year. In his honor, the Simeonstift was built and the former gate to the double church was rebuilt. A founding deed of the monastery by the Archbishop of Trier Poppo von Babenberg has not been preserved and probably there was none. The more recent research assumes, however, that the foundation of the monastery took place soon after the canonization of Simeon. According to the dendrochronological findings, the preserved north wing of the Stiftsbering dates from 1040. The first reliable evidence is a document from 1048, which proves the presence of a provost and therefore gives evidence of an existing constitution.

In 1098, Emperor Heinrich IV confirmed all of its possessions to the Simeonstift and lists more than sixty goods and authorizations.

The conversion of the Porta Nigra into a double church complex as part of the foundation of the monastery was reversed in 1804 by order of Napoleon. Since then, the gutted city gate has been close to its original Gallo-Roman state. Only the Romanesque east choir still shows from the outside that there was once an imposing church here.

  • Model of the Simeonstift around 1800 with a view of the church from the northeast

  • Model of the Simeon pen from around 1800 with a view of the monastery building from the northwest

  • Cloister, west corner

  • Cloister, north corner

  • Memorial stone for St. Simeon in the south-western outer wall

Web links

Commons : Simeon pen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.museum-trier.de/museum/das-simeonstift/ , accessed on July 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume 1, Page 452, Certificate 397

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 35 ″  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 36 ″  E