Trier
Trier | |
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 Flag  Coat of arms | |
Location of Trier  | |
Urban district | |
| Founded | 16 BC |
| Government | |
| • Lord mayor (2023–31) | Wolfram Leibe[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 117.06 km2 (45.20 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 137 m (449 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 112,195 |
| • Density | 960/km2 (2,500/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Trevian |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 54290–54296 (except 54291) |
| Dialling codes | 0651 |
| Vehicle registration | TR |
| Website | www.trier.de |
Trier (Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border with Luxembourg and within the important Moselle wine region.
Founded by the
prince of the Church who controlled land from the French border to the Rhine. The archbishop-elector of Trier also had great significance as one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire. Because of its significance during the Roman and Holy Roman empires, several monuments and cathedrals within Trier are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[9]
With an approximate population of 110,000, Trier is the fourth-largest city in its state, after Mainz, Ludwigshafen, and Koblenz.[10] The nearest major cities are Luxembourg City (50 km or 31 mi to the southwest), Saarbrücken (80 kilometres or 50 miles southeast), and Koblenz (100 km or 62 mi northeast).
The
.History
The first traces of human settlement in the area of the city show evidence of
Archbishops of Trier, in the Gesta Treverorum, the founder of the city of the Trevians is Trebeta. German historian Johannes Aventinus also credited Trebeta with building settlements at Metz, Mainz, Basel, Strasbourg, Speyer and Worms
.
The historical record describes the
Boulogne through what is today southern Belgium until 460. South of this line, Roman control was firm, as evidenced by the continuing operation of the imperial arms factory at Amiens
.
Cathedral of Trier
The
Imperial Circles
was definitively established.
In the years from 1581 to 1593, the
Würzburg witch trial, and the Bamberg witch trials
, perhaps even the largest one in European history. The persecutions started in the diocese of Trier in 1581 and reached the city itself in 1587, where it was to lead to the death of about 368 people, and was as such perhaps the biggest mass execution in Europe in peacetime. This counts only those executed within the city itself. The exact number of people executed in all the witch hunts within the diocese has never been established; a total of 1,000 has been suggested but not confirmed.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the
French-Habsburg rivalry brought war to Trier. Spain and France fought over the city during the Thirty Years' War. The bishop was imprisoned by Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor for his support for France between 1635 and 1645. In later wars between the Empire and France, French troops occupied the city during the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, and the War of the Polish Succession. After conquering Trier again in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars, France annexed the city and the electoral archbishopric was dissolved. After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, Trier passed to the Kingdom of Prussia. Karl Marx, the German philosopher and one of the founders of Marxism
, was born in the city in 1818.
As part of the
revolutions of 1848 in the German states, although the rebels were forced to concede. It became part of the German Empire
in 1871.
The synagogue on Zuckerbergstrasse was looted during the November 1938
Shoah.[17]
In June 1940 during
Cathedral of Trier was reopened in 1974 after undergoing substantial and long-lasting renovations. Trier officially celebrated its 2,000th anniversary in 1984. On December 1, 2020, 5 people were killed by an allegedly drunk driver during a vehicle-ramming attack.[18]
The Ehrang/Quint district of Trier was heavily damaged and flooded during the July 16, 2021 floods of Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg.
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 20,000 | — |
| 300 | 80,000 | +300.0% |
| 400 | 50,000 | −37.5% |
| 1250 | 12,000 | −76.0% |
| 1363 | 10,000 | −16.7% |
| 1542 | 8,500 | −15.0% |
| 1613 | 6,000 | −29.4% |
| 1702 | 4,300 | −28.3% |
| 1801 | 8,829 | +105.3% |
| 1871 | 21,442 | +142.9% |
| 1900 | 43,506 | +102.9% |
| 1910 | 49,112 | +12.9% |
| 1919 | 53,248 | +8.4% |
| 1919 | 57,341 | +7.7% |
| 1933 | 76,692 | +33.7% |
| 1939 | 88,150 | +14.9% |
| 1950 | 75,526 | −14.3% |
| 1961 | 87,141 | +15.4% |
| 1970 | 103,724 | +19.0% |
| 1987 | 94,118 | −9.3% |
| 2011 | 105,671 | +12.3% |
| 2018 | 110,636 | +4.7% |
| source:[19][circular reference] | ||
Trier sits in a hollow midway along the
Moselle valley, with the most significant portion of the city on the east bank of the river. Wooded and vineyard-covered slopes stretch up to the Hunsrück plateau in the south and the Eifel in the north. The border with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
is some 15 km (9 mi) away.
| Largest groups of foreign residents | |
| Country of birth | Population (2013) |
|---|---|
 Poland |
688 |
 France |
675 |
 Luxembourg |
573 |
 Ukraine |
476 |
 Russia |
444 |
Neighbouring municipalities
Listed in clockwise order, beginning with the northernmost; all municipalities belong to the Trier-Saarburg district
Verbandsgemeinde Konz), Igel, Trierweiler, Aach, Newel, Kordel, Zemmer (all in the Verbandsgemeinde Trier-Land
).
Organization of city districts
The Trier urban area is divided into 19 city districts. For each district there is an Ortsbeirat (local council) of between 9 and 15 members, as well as an Ortsvorsteher (local representative). The local councils are charged with hearing the important issues that affect the district, although the final decision on any issue rests with the city council. The local councils nevertheless have the freedom to undertake limited measures within the bounds of their districts and their budgets.
The districts of Trier with area and inhabitants (December 31, 2009):
| Official district number | District with associated sub-districts | Area in km2 |
Inhabitants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Mitte/Gartenfeld | 2.978 | 11,954 |
| 12 | Nord (Nells Ländchen, Maximin) | 3.769 | 13,405 |
| 13 | Süd (St. Barbara, St. Matthias or St. Mattheis) | 1.722 | 9,123 |
| 21 | Ehrang/Quint | 26.134 | 9,195 |
| 22 | Pfalzel | 2.350 | 3,514 |
| 23 | Biewer | 5.186 | 1,949 |
| 24 | Ruwer/Eitelsbach | 9.167 | 3,091 |
| 31 | West/Pallien | 8.488 | 7,005 |
| 32 | Euren (Herresthal) | 13.189 | 4,207 |
| 33 | Zewen (Oberkirch) | 7.496 | 3,634 |
| 41 | Olewig | 3.100 | 3,135 |
| 42 | Kürenz (Alt-Kürenz, Neu-Kürenz) | 5.825 | 8,708 |
| 43 | Tarforst | 4.184 | 6,605 |
| 44 | Filsch | 1.601 | 761 |
| 45 | Irsch | 4.082 | 2,351 |
| 46 | Kernscheid | 3.768 | 958 |
| 51 | Feyen/Weismark | 5.095 | 5,689 |
| 52 | Heiligkreuz (Alt-Heiligkreuz, Neu-Heiligkreuz, St. Maternus) | 2.036 | 6,672 |
| 53 | Mariahof (St. Michael) | 7.040 | 3,120 |
| Totals | 117.210 | 105,076 |
Climate
Trier has an oceanic climate (
European heat wave in 2003, the highest temperature recorded was 39 °C on 8 August of that year. On 25 July 2019, a record-breaking temperature of 40.6 °C was recorded.[21] The lowest recorded temperature was −19.3 °C on February 2, 1956.[22]
| Climate data for Trier (1991–2020 normals) (1948-present extremes) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 14.7 (58.5) |
20.3 (68.5) |
24.5 (76.1) |
28.5 (83.3) |
30.7 (87.3) |
36.2 (97.2) |
40.6 (105.1) |
39.0 (102.2) |
34.8 (94.6) |
26.8 (80.2) |
20.6 (69.1) |
17.0 (62.6) |
40.6 (105.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.5 (40.1) |
6.1 (43.0) |
10.8 (51.4) |
15.7 (60.3) |
19.7 (67.5) |
23.0 (73.4) |
25.2 (77.4) |
24.9 (76.8) |
20.4 (68.7) |
14.6 (58.3) |
8.6 (47.5) |
5.1 (41.2) |
14.9 (58.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.0 (35.6) |
2.8 (37.0) |
6.2 (43.2) |
10.0 (50.0) |
13.9 (57.0) |
17.1 (62.8) |
19.1 (66.4) |
18.6 (65.5) |
14.5 (58.1) |
10.3 (50.5) |
5.8 (42.4) |
2.8 (37.0) |
10.2 (50.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.4 (31.3) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
2.2 (36.0) |
4.9 (40.8) |
8.6 (47.5) |
11.7 (53.1) |
13.7 (56.7) |
13.3 (55.9) |
10.0 (50.0) |
6.8 (44.2) |
3.3 (37.9) |
0.6 (33.1) |
6.2 (43.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.3 (−0.9) |
−19.3 (−2.7) |
−12.9 (8.8) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
1.7 (35.1) |
4.4 (39.9) |
4.2 (39.6) |
1.2 (34.2) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
−14.4 (6.1) |
−19.3 (−2.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 63.5 (2.50) |
53.0 (2.09) |
51.3 (2.02) |
44.2 (1.74) |
66.7 (2.63) |
66.0 (2.60) |
72.4 (2.85) |
62.0 (2.44) |
60.4 (2.38) |
65.4 (2.57) |
62.2 (2.45) |
77.6 (3.06) |
746.8 (29.40) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 18.2 | 16.4 | 15.3 | 13.0 | 14.7 | 13.5 | 13.9 | 13.6 | 12.6 | 15.3 | 18.1 | 18.7 | 183.7 |
| Average snowy days (≥ 1.0 cm) | 5.9 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 4.3 | 17.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%)
|
87.2 | 82.5 | 75.1 | 69.0 | 71.0 | 70.8 | 69.9 | 71.9 | 77.9 | 84.5 | 88.5 | 89.2 | 78.1 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 48.1 | 70.3 | 130.9 | 187.1 | 213.8 | 224.7 | 235.1 | 215.3 | 159.8 | 96.3 | 44.8 | 38.7 | 1,663.4 |
| Source 1: World Meteorological Organization[23][24] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Wetterdienst.de - Wetter- und Klimaberatung | |||||||||||||
Main sights
| Criteria | Cultural: i, iii, iv, vi |
|---|---|
| Reference | 367 |
| Inscription | 1986 (10th Session) |
Constantine I
Trier is known for its well-preserved Roman and medieval buildings, which include:
- the Porta Nigra, the best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps;
- the huge ;
- the Roman Trier Amphitheater;
- the 2nd century AD Roman bridge(Römerbrücke) across the Moselle, the oldest bridge north of the Alps still crossed by traffic;
- ruins of three Roman baths, among them the largest Roman baths north of the Alps; including the Barbara Baths, the Trier Imperial Baths, and the Forum Baths, Trier;
- Holy Tunic, a garment said to be the robe Jesus was wearing when he died, as well as many other relics and reliquaries in the Cathedral Treasury;
- the Our Lady), which is one of the most important early Gothic churches in Germany, in some ways comparable to the architectural tradition of the French Gothiccathedrals;
- apostlenorth of the Alps is held to be buried;
- St. Gangolf's churchis the city's 'own' church near the main market square (as opposed to the Cathedral, the bishop's church); largely Gothic;
- Saint Paulinus' Church, one of the most important Baroque churches in Rhineland-Palatinate and designed in part by the architect Balthasar Neumann;
- two old treadwheel cranes, one being the Gothic "Old Crane" (Alte Krahnen) or "Trier Moselle Crane" (Trierer Moselkrahn) from 1413, and the other the 1774 Baroque crane called the "(Old) Customs Crane" ((Alter) Zollkran) or "Younger Moselle Crane" (Jüngerer Moselkran) (see List of historical harbour cranes).
Museums
- Rheinisches Landesmuseum (an important archaeological museum for the Roman period; also some early Christian and Romanesque sculpture);
- Domschatzkammer (Treasury of Trier Cathedral; with the Egbert Shrine, the reliquary of the Holy Nail, the cup of Saint Helena and other reliquaries, liturgical objects, ivories, manuscripts, etc., many from the Middle Ages);
- Museum am Dom, formerly Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum (Museum of the Diocese of Trier; religious art, also some Roman artefacts);
- Stadtmuseum Simeonstift (history of Trier, displaying among other exhibits a scale model of the medieval city);
- Karl Marx House; a museum exhibiting Marx's personal history, volumes of poetry, original letters, and photographs with personal dedications. There is also a collection of rare first editions and international editions of his works, as well as exhibits on the development of socialism in the 19th century;
- Toy Museum of Trier;
- Ethnological and open-air museum Roscheider Hof, a museum in the neighbouring town of Konz, right at the city limits of Trier, which shows the history of rural culture in the northwest Rhineland Palatinate and in the area where Germany, Luxembourg and Lorraine meet;
- Fell Exhibition Slate Mine; site in the municipality of Fell, 20 km (12 mi) from Trier, containing an underground mine, a mine museum, and a slate mining trail.
Education
Trier is home to the University of Trier, founded in 1473, closed in 1796 and restarted in 1970. The city also has the Trier University of Applied Sciences. The Academy of European Law (ERA) was established in 1992 and provides training in European law to legal practitioners. In 2010 there were about 40 Kindergärten,[25] 25 primary schools and 23 secondary schools in Trier, such as the Humboldt Gymnasium Trier, Max Planck Gymnasium, Auguste Viktoria Gymnasium, Angela Merici Gymnasium, Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium and the Nelson-Mandela Realschule Plus, Kurfürst-Balduin Realschule Plus, Realschule Plus Ehrang.[26]
Annual events
- Until 2014, Trier was home to Germany's largest Roman festival, satires of Juvenal).
- Trier has been the base for the German round of the World Rally Championship since 2002, with the rally's presentation held next to the Porta Nigra.
- Trier holds a Christmas street festival every year called the Trier Christmas Market on the Hauptmarkt (Main Market Square) and the Domfreihof in front of the Cathedral of Trier.
- The Olewiger Weinfest is an annual wine festival held in the village of Olewig, just outside of Trier, Germany. The festival takes place over three days, typically in August, and features a wide variety of activities, including wine tastings, live music and food stalls.
Culture
Trier has a municipal theatre, Theater Trier, for musical theatre, plays and dance.
Transport
Moselle is an important waterway and is also used for river cruises. A new passenger railway service on the western side of the Mosel is scheduled to open in December 2018.[27]
Sports
Major sports clubs in Trier include:
- SV Eintracht Trier 05, association football
- TBB Trier)
- team handball
- Trier Cardinals, baseball
- American Football
- FSV Trier-Tarforst, intera alia football and rugby
International relations
Trier is a fellow member of the QuattroPole union of cities, along with
).Twin towns – sister cities
Gloucester, England, UK (1957)
Metz, France (1957)
Ascoli Piceno, Italy (1958)
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (1968)
Pula, Croatia (1971)
Weimar, Germany (1987)
Fort Worth, United States (1987)
Nagaoka, Japan (2006)
Xiamen, China (2010)
Izium, Ukraine (2024)[29][30]
Namesakes
- New Trier Township, Illinois, US, originally settled by people from Trier.
- New Trier, Minnesota, US, settled by people from Trier about 1856.
- New Trier High School, an Illinois school named after Trier.
Notable people
- Eucharius (died c. 250), first bishop of Trier
- Constantius Chlorus (c. 250–306), Roman emperor
- Maximian (c. 250–310), Roman emperor
- Valerius (died 320), second bishop of Trier
- Helena (c. 250–330), saint, mother of Constantine the Great (residence in Trier by tradition)
- Athanasius of Alexandria (296/298–373), saint (in exile ca. 335)
- Paulinus (died 358), bishop of Trier
- Valentinian I (321–375), Roman emperor
- Ausonius (c. 310–395), Roman consul and poet
- Ambrose (c. 340–397), saint
- Apronia of Toul (6th century), nun and saint
- Saint Modesta (died c. 680), founder and Abbess of the monastery of Oeren
- Kaspar Olevianus(1536–1587), theologian
- Heinrich Marx (1777–1838), lawyer, father of Karl Marx
- Henriette Marx (1788–1863), mother of Karl Marx
- Johann Anton Ramboux (1790–1866), painter
- Jenny Marx(1814–1881), revolutionary, drama critic
- Karl Marx (1818–1883), social philosopher and revolutionary
- August Beer (1825–1863), scientist
- Udo Samel (born 1953), Actor
- Frederick A. Schroeder (1833–1899), American politician, mayor of Brooklyn
- Hans am Ende (1864–1918), painter
- Ludwig Kaas (1881–1952), Catholic priest and politician (Zentrum)
- Ludwig von Westphalen (1770 –1842), father-in-law of Karl Marx
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), theologian
- Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), General and French statesman, as commander of a battalion of Chasseurs during the French occupation of Rhineland
- Reinhard Heß (1904–1998), painter and glass painter
- Wolf Graf von Baudissin (1907–1993), general, military planner and peace researcher
- Peter Thullen (1907–1996), German-Ecuadorian mathematician
- Gitta Lind (1925–1974), singer
- Reinhold Bartel (1926–1996), operatic tenor
- Ernst Huberty (1927–2023), sports reporter
- Günther Steines (1928–1982), athlete
- Franz Grundheber (born 1937), baritone
- Otmar Seul (born 1943), lawyer, professor
- Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born 1948), journalist and politician
- Xavier Bout de Marnhac (born 1951), French general, former commander of KFOR
- Robert Zimmer (born 1953), philosopher and essayist
- Ernst Ulrich Deuker (born 1954), musician
- François Weigel (born 1964), French pianist, composer and conductor
- Eric Jelen (born 1965), tennis player
- Martin Bambauer (born 1970), church musician
- Frank Findeiß (born 1971), poet
- Anja Kaesmacher (born 1974), operatic soprano
- Georg Meier (chess player) (born 1987), german grandmaster of chess
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Further reading
Heinz Monz: Trierer Biographisches Lexikon. Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 2000. 539 p.
ISBN 3-931014-49-5
.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trier.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Trier.
- Official website
(in German) - . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
- Gough, Alfred Bradley (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). pp. 268–269.
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