MDCCXV - Katholische Welschnonnenkirche Maria Himmelfahrt - Trier, Germany
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dreamhummie
N 49° 45.441 E 006° 38.706
32U E 330391 N 5514313
Dated Katholische Welschnonnenkirche Maria Himmelfahrt located at Flanderstraße 2 in Trier, Germany.
Waymark Code: WM1CEQZ
Location: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Date Posted: 08/09/2025
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At the top of the red stone door post, the golden text SANCTA MARIA and the Roman numerals MDCCXV are visible.
MDCCXV stands for 1715, the year this church was built.
The church is a German Monument.
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German monument list, page 14 (
visit link) writes:
"Former Welschnonnenkloster monastery, now home to the Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium and Staatl. Studienseminar, among others, former monastery church: high baroque hall with ridge turret, 1714-36 (consecration), architect Nicolaus Minden, renovated around 1730, architect Frater Joseph Walter; furnishings; convent: three-winged complex with mansard roofs, 1728-34, architect Frater Joseph Walter; pre-Baroque and Baroque cellars; two neo-Baroque archways, 1906, architect Hermann Fülles."
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