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.