Trinitarian Church (Vianden)

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Cloister of the former Trinitarian monastery

The Trinitarian Church is a Roman Catholic parish church and a former monastery church of the Trinitarian Order in Vianden in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . It is consecrated to the Most Holy Trinity .

history

The monastery church was built in the 13th century as an early Gothic two-nave hall church. The Trinitarians ensured the liberation of Count Friedrich III. who was captured during the Fifth Crusade . His son Heinrich I then gave the Trinitarians the newly built hospital in the village in 1248; in the same year they built a monastery on the site with a monastery church. In 1266 it was declared a parish church as a replacement for the castle chapel .

In 1644 the medieval choir in front of the southern nave of the nave, the so-called monk's ship, was replaced by a larger choir in Gothic shapes. A sacristy was added to the north in 1790.

In 1783 the Trinitarian monastery was closed. The church became a parish church for the entire urban area of ​​Viandens and the village of Roth an der Our as part of the annexation of the forest department to the diocese of Metz . After Roth became Prussian in 1815, this village was incorporated into the Diocese of Trier.

Furnishing

In the church there is the grave of Heinrich von Nassau , the grave of Maria von Sponheim - Vianden , a skull relic of Blessed Yolanda von Vianden and a reliquary with relics of St. Antony.

The high altar was designed in 1758 in the Rococo style by Michael Weiler. The altar of Our Lady and Joseph are from 1729. A statue of St. Joseph , which has been at the altar since 1992, dates from the 16th century.

literature

  • The Trinitarian Church , in: Michel Schmitt: Vianden. Kirchen und Kapellen , Regensburg 1997, pp. 2–21.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '59.7 "  N , 6 ° 12' 16.4"  E