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.