Welschnonnenkirche - Trier, Germany - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

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"The Welschnonnenkirche Maria Himmelfahrt in Trier takes its name from the Augustinian nuns from Lorraine, the Welschen Nonnen, who were founded by Pierre Fourier. The order is responsible for teaching girls and young women and performing social tasks. The church, together with the former school and convent buildings, is located on Flanderstraße, on the northern edge of the cathedral immunity.

The simple structure, divided by buttresses, with its steep gable facing the street, the mighty slate gable roof and the delicate ridge turret with a Welsch dome dominate the neighbourhood. The weather vane has the outline of a girl stretching out her arms. After the Lorraine school sisters had already come to Trier in 1640 and construction of a school and boarding school building had begun in 1713, the foundation stone for the church was laid in 1714. It was consecrated in 1716. The Welsch nuns survived the dissolution of the monasteries in the wake of the French Revolution because they served a useful purpose as school sisters. It was not until 1875 that the Prussians drove them out during the Kulturkampf.

The Welschnonnenkirche is built in the heavy and simple style of the High Baroque. The architect who designed it cannot be identified. It is a simple five-bay hall with narrow wall pillars, transverse arches and cross vaults, and a straight choir apse. A nuns' gallery supported by columns occupies almost the entire western half of the nave. Behind the organ is the nuns' choir with its stalls.

The rich furnishings have been preserved. The 17th-century side altars originate from an older church. The Baroque high altarpiece covers almost the entire front wall. It is an exquisite piece of work in veneered wood.
The altarpiece by Counet depicts the Assumption of Mary into Heaven. Between the columns on the right and left are life-size, high-quality figures of St. Pierre Fourier and St. Augustine.

Behind the high altar, a spiral staircase leads up to the chapter house, which is richly decorated with stalls; the sacristies are located on the ground floor.

A special gem of the church is the organ built by the Stumm brothers in 1757. It is the only Stumm organ preserved in Trier. After the monastery and monastery school were abolished as a result of secularisation, the church served as an alternative church for the parish of Our Lady and St. Lawrence (Liebfrauen) after the Second World War."

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