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Katholische Kirche

  • Valwig

The parish church of St. Martin stands picturesquely enthroned above the old wine village of Valwig.

The church, which is considered the oldest "neo-Romanesque" in Germany, goes back to the royal building director Johann Claudius von Lassaux. Lassaux, a former pupil of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, submitted the building plans for the current structure to the local congregation in 1823/24. The church in the centre of the village, which had become much too small and dilapidated at the time, was abandoned. After four years of construction, the church building, which was widely admired and published at the time, was completed in 1827. The most outstanding features of the building are the flood of light in the floor plan and the cleverly integrated annexes such as the sacristy, storerooms, etc., which provided two additional choir galleries. The church was equipped with many figures of saints, among other things, which were taken over from the old church. Special features include a marble St. John, a 17th century St. Sebastian and a Gothic Mother of God. The alabaster altar (Anno 1627) has also been preserved and represents the baroque stonemasonry of the early modern period.

Service can be viewed online.

www.pg-beilstein-moselkrampen.de

On the map

Kreuzstraße

56812 Valwig

DE


Website: www.valwig.de


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