Dom (Roman Catholic Cathedral)
Roman central structure: 4th century. Romanesque west facade: 11th century. East choir: 12th century. Cloisters: 13th century. Holy Robe Chapel: 1716.

Trier’s cathedral: 100 meters from the market is one of the oldest and most impressive roman cathedrals in Germany. On the ride hand you can visite the Liebfrauen Church in pure gothic style.

The present Cathedral stands on top of a former Constantinian Palace. After Constantine's last visit to Trier in A.D. 328/9, the palace was leveled in 330 and replaced by the largest Christian church in Antiquity, about four times as big as the present-day church and covering the area of the Cathedral and the Church of Our Lady, the Cathedral Square, the adjoining garden, and the houses almost up to the market.

Today's Cathedral still contains a Roman central section with the original walls rising up to a height of 26 m (86 ft). The huge fragment of a granite column next to the entrance to the Cathedral is another indication of the Roman origin of the building. After destructions in the 5th and 9th centuries, the remaining nucleus was enlarged by Romanesque additions - today, the Cathedral, with its three crypts, its cloister, Cathedral Treasury, and Holy Robe Chapel, displays architecture and artwork from more than 1650 years.

Cathedral Tours
Including cloister and Church of Our Lady, beginning at sacristy, 1 hour: tours can be reserved through the Cathedral office (Tel. 75801).

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Liebfrauenkirche (Church of Our Lady)
First Gothic church in Germany (1235-1260), erected on the side of a Roman church. The south part of the Roman double church was torn down around 1200 and completely replaced by the Early Gothic Church of Our Lady (Liebfrauen). Nothing above the surface is Roman any more, but there are extensive excavations (not open to the public) underneath the church and several of the Gothic pillars stand on top of Roman column foundations. The medieval church, however, was no longer a long, three-aisled structure, but a church-in-the-round, whose cross-shaped vaulting with four corresponding portals in rounded niches was completed by eight rounded altar niches so that the floor plan resembles a twelve-petaled rose, a symbol of the Virgin Mary, the rosa mystica, and reminiscent of the twelve tribes of Israel and the Twelve Apostles. The apostles as well as the twelve articles of the Apostle's Creed are painted on the twelve supporting columns, completely visible only from one spot marked by a black stone. The intriguing optics are matched by splendid acoustics.

On the way out, the visitor passes stone masons' marks and graffiti from seven centuries, the elaborate west portal, the Bishop's Palace, the Kesselstatt Palace, and the gate marking the end of the Cathedral Close.

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St. Paulin
This formerly collegiate church is one of the famoust baroque churches in Western Germany. It has been built in the middle of the 18th century and has been a parish church since 1804. A single-aisled baroque-rococo church, begun in 1734 and built to plans by Johannes Seitz and Balthasar Neumann, it boasts of magnificent ceiling paintings done in 1743 by C. T. Scheffler. The ceiling shows four scenes with cross motifs and two scenes from the life of Paulinus, the Trier bishop exiled in 353. The canopied Marian (Immaculata) altar was sculpted by Ferdinand Tietz. The burial altar of Paulinus is visible in the crypt, as are other Roman bishops' graves.
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St. Maximin
North of the Porta Nigra, outside the Roman city wall, two Roman bishops' burial churches are located in one of Trier's two former Roman cemeteries: St. Maximin and St. Paulin. St. Maximin, originally a Benedictine Imperial Abbey church dating from 1684 (on the site of earlier churches) served not only as the burial place of some of the first Trier bishops but also for the early Christians in Trier. After many years of restauration the former church is now a concert hall.
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St. Gangolf Church
Between the 10th and the 12th centuries, the Trier archbishops, the lords spiritual, had also become lords temporal and, of course, had the church with the highest towers in town, namely the Cathedral - the left steeple still shows the original height. The city church outside the walled Bishop's Close, St. Gangolf (on market place), was lower and humbler until, in 1507, a rich widow named Mathilde donated money to the city to have two tower stories with larger windows added. The bishop had to follow suit, but he had money enough only for the south tower that still shows the Gothic story from 1515 on top of the Romanesque part. The secular building of the Steipe was located in such a position that the lord spiritual had to see it every day with its defiant battlements and the knights facing the Cathedral. Trier, however, never became an imperial free city, and in 1595, the new archbishop had the Market Fountain with St. Peter in his double function erected as a conciliatory gesture.

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Jesuitenkirche (Jesuit Church)
13th century building, old University, 1614 and 1775.
Address: Jesuitenstrasse 13
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