Simeonstift of Trier

The Simeonstift was a collegiate in Trier in the immediate vicinity of the Roman city gate Porta Nigra. It is named after the Greek monk Simeon of Trier. In the former collegiate buildings now the City Museum Simeonstift Trier is housed.

The monastery was built by 1035th Simeon of Trier settled after 1028 as a hermit in the Porta Nigra down. Supposedly he can be immured there. After his death on June 1, 1035 he was buried in the ground floor and probably canonized for Christmas the same year. In his honor, there was the brand Simeonstift and built the former gateway to the church to double. A certificate of incorporation of the pen by the Archbishop of Trier, Poppo von Babenberg is not obtained, and it probably has not occurred. Recent research, however, assumes that the pin was founded soon after the canonization of Simeon. The obtained north wing of the Bering pin comes loud dendrochronologischem findings of 1040. Secure a first document forms a certificate of 1048 shows the presence of a provost and therefore gives witness to an existing stiftische Constitution.

Emperor Henry IV confirmed in 1098 the Simeonstift all his possessions, and especially performs more than sixty goods and Permissions.

The was part of the founding pin conversion of the Porta Nigra to a double church plant was made ​​by order of Napoleon in 1804 reversed. Since then, the enucleated Gate is close to its Gallo-Roman original state. Only the Romanesque east choir testifies to the outside or from the fact that once stood here has an imposing church.