Welschnonnen Church (Trier)

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Welschnonnen Church from the southeast
Welschnonnen Church from the northwest
Portal (1715)

The Welschnonnen Church in Flanderstraße in Trier is a baroque Welschnonnen Church , the 1714-1716 by the Augustinian monks women BMV (called "Welschnonnen") for the Trier Welschnonnen monastery was built. It is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

Inside, the only undamaged high-baroque church in Trier, the oldest organ in Trier is a playable silent organ from 1757; it is the only silent organ preserved in Trier.

Building description

The Welschnonnen Church is a nave structure with five bays and a straight choir closure (no apse ). A groin vault is built over narrow wall pillars and belt arches . A small roof turret sits on the steep church roof .

The gallery originally used by the nuns extends from the southwest side of the church area almost to its center; on it are the organ and a choir stalls . The rich interior of the church including the baroque high altar retable made of veneered wood ( altar sheet / painting: Assumption of Mary in Heaven) is preserved at the end of the choir. On the sides are figures of St. Pierre Fourier (founder of the Welschnonnen Order) and St. Augustine . The two side altars from the 17th century come from an older building.

The former chapter house of the monastery, equipped with additional choir stalls, is reached via a spiral staircase behind the high altar. The sacristy rooms are on the ground floor.

history

The Welschnonnen came to Trier in 1640 to build a monastery and to promote girls' education by founding a school (1652). They bought a house on Flanderstrasse in the north of the Trier cathedral ring and acquired the entire site between Flanderstrasse, Deworastrasse and Sichelstrasse by the middle of the following century.

On August 4, 1714, the foundation stone was laid for a high baroque church facing north-northeast. The architect of the church is not known. In 1716 the church was consecrated and henceforth used as a monastery and school church.

Under Napoleon, the Welschnonnen were the only congregation in Trier not to be abolished because of their educational work. Even under Prussian-Protestant rule, the Welschnonnen Church remained a monastery and school church until the sisters were expelled from the Prussians to Belgium on March 31, 1874 as part of the Kulturkampf . The church passed to the Marian Congregation for Young Men . The other buildings of the monastery are used today by the Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium , which was founded in 1878/1879, a few years after the Welschnonnenschule closed.

After the Second World War, the parish of Our Lady and St. Laurentius (Liebfrauen) used the Welschnonnen Church as an alternative church.

On December 10, 2010, a relic of St. Pierre Fourier was unveiled by Auxiliary Bishop Jörg Michael Peters during a solemn pontifical mass. The memory of the Founder of Augustine Canon women (also called Welschnonnen) is enclosed in a halo which is visibly displayed on the statue of the saint. The relic comes from Fontenay-sous-Bois near Paris.

Mute organ

View of the gallery with the Stumm organ

After the original installation of a smaller organ in 1722, a contract was made with the second generation of the Stumm organ building family on July 10, 1754 for the construction of a new organ. The original Stumm- Positiv (small standing organ) in the Trier Cathedral was to be used as a model, which was the first Stumm organ with the divided loops used by the organ builders in several instruments . The organ for the Welschnonnen Church, completed in 1757, had two harp fields and three round towers as well as originally a manual and 11 stops .

As part of a restoration, the organ, which had already been modified in the 19th century, was rebuilt in 1957/58 and expanded to include two manuals. In 2007, for the 250th anniversary of the silent organ, the instrument was returned to its original state with only one manual and given back a baroque sound. Today the organ again has 11 stops on a manual. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

Manual CD – c 3
1. Montre 4 ′
2. Bourdon 8th'
3. Flute traversière D 8th'
4th Flute B / D 4 ′
5. Fifth B / D 3 ′
6th Octave B 2 ′
7th Octave D 2 ′
8th. Tierce 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Mixture III
10. Cornet IV D 4 ′
11. Trumpet B / D 8th'
12. Voix humaine B / D 8th'
Tremulant

Modern use

The Welschnonnen Church is now owned by the Marian Citizens' Modality Trier from 1610 and is supported by the Welschnonnen Church Trier e. V. supports.

For several years, the masses of the Catholic University Community (KHG) Trier took place in the church, which still celebrates the Holy Days in the church today. Concerts are also held in the church, some of them on the historic silent organ.

  • Left side altar

  • Right side altar

  • Bone relics in the right side altar

  • Bone relics in the left side altar

  • Altars seen from the gallery

  • List of names of the sisters buried in the crypt

literature

  • Johann Peter Muth: The Congregation of Our Lady of Trier: Welschnonnenkloster. A canonical study on the development of the Institute of Religious Cooperatives under the French Consulate and the First German Empire . Heitz, Strasbourg 1907.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How the Welschnonnen Church is saved , accessed on December 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Franz Ronig: Welschnonnen Church (Flanderstraße) on the Trier Orgelpunkt website (accessed October 15, 2007)
  3. ^ Karl-August Heise (2003). Neighbors of the cathedral - monasteries and artistic urban development. Festschrift "Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium Trier: 350 Years of Education and Upbringing" (accessed October 15, 2007)
  4. ↑ Diocese of Trier: "A saint has come closer to us today"
  5. ^ Trier, Katholische Welschnonnen - Church on classic edition. organ archive. (Page 1) of www.online-studios.de ( Memento from November 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ More information about the organ
  7. ↑ rotary1810.de: Support of the Friends of the Welschnonnen Church eV ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rotary1810.de
  8. ↑ Stumm-Organ consecrated in Welschnonnen , accessed on December 12, 2014.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 26 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 43"  E