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13-711: Today it is used as the Church of the Redeemer and owned by a congregation within the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . The basilica contains the largest extant hall from antiquity (see List of ancient Greek and Roman roofs ). The hall has a length of 67 m, a width of 26.05 m and a height of 33 m. Because of its testimony to the imperial importance of Trier during the Roman Empire and its architecture,

26-426: A narthex . The basilica was made of solid brick, with black-and-white marble floors, and was equipped with a floor and wall-heating system ( hypocaust ). The basilica was originally part of a palace complex and was not a free-standing building, but had other smaller buildings (such as a forehall, a vestibule and some service buildings) attached to it. The outer courtyard and railings on the first and second stories of

39-621: Is actually the area covered by the former Prussian Rhine Province until 1920. The seat of the church is in Düsseldorf . The church leader is not called a "bishop", but a praeses ( German : Präses ), and there is no cathedral . The Protestant Church in the Rhineland is a full member of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), and is a Prussian Union Church. The current praeses is Thorsten Latzel. The Evangelical Church in

52-696: The Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union gained independence as its own church body. The Protestants in Hohenzollern merged in 1950 with the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg , whilst retaining the previous old-Prussian order of service. The legislative assembly of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland is the regional synod ( Landessynode ). The election of the synod is for four years. Since 1975

65-628: The Protestant Church in Germany . Guests are The UEK was founded on July 1, 2003. The organisation succeeded the former organisation Evangelical Church of the Union ( German : Evangelische Kirche der Union , EKU). The seat of the organisation used to be Berlin . For structural reasons, it was moved to the seat of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) in Hanover though. On November 9, 2019, Union of Evangelical Churches allowed blessings of same-sex marriages . The parliament (=Vollkonferenz) of

78-617: The 19th century were not reconstructed, so that the brick walls are visible from the inside as well. A new organ was installed in 2014. It has over 6,000 organ pipes. Evangelical Church in the Rhineland The Protestant Church in the Rhineland ( German : Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland ; EKiR) is a United Protestant church body in parts of the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland and Hesse ( Wetzlar ). This

91-486: The 19th century, Frederick William IV of Prussia ordered the building to be restored to its original Roman state, which was done under the supervision of the military architect Carl Schnitzler. In 1856, the Aula Palatina became a Protestant church. In 1944, the building burned due to an air raid of the allied forces during World War II . When it was repaired after the war, the historical inner decorations from

104-528: The Aula Palatina was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 as part of the Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier site. Although the Aula Palatina generally follows the standard architectural plan of earlier basilicas , with a lack of columns in the interior and an open, box-like shape, it is unique in its addition of a transverse vestibule reminiscent of

117-584: The Rhine . The theological teaching goes back on Martin Luther . The ordination of women is allowed. The blessing of same-sex unions has been allowed by the synod and depends on the local church administration ( German : Presbyterium , English: presbytery ). The Protestant Church in the Rhineland emerged on 12 November 1948, when the Ecclesiastical Province of the Rhineland within

130-753: The Rhineland is one of 20 Lutheran , united , and Reformed churches of the EKD. As of December 2020, the church has 2,398,996 members in 809 parishes. The Protestant Church in the Rhineland is a member of the UEK and the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe and also the Reformed Alliance . The church runs a conference venue called Evangelische Akademie. It is a member of the Conference of Churches on

143-557: The basilica no longer exist, but overall it is remarkably well preserved. During the Middle Ages , it was used as the residence for the Bishop of Trier . For that, the apse was redesigned into living quarters and pinnacles were added to the top of its walls. In the 17th century, the archbishop Lothar von Metternich constructed his palace just next to the Aula Palatina and incorporated it into it doing some major redesign. Later, in

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156-619: The synod but not the leaders of the ecclesiastical province. Instead this function was with the general superintendents . Since the ecclesiastical province assumed its independence each praeses is speaker of the synod and leader of the church. Union of Protestant Churches in the EKD The Union of Evangelical Churches (German: Union Evangelischer Kirchen , UEK ) is an organisation of 10 United and 2 Reformed evangelical churches in Germany , which are all member churches of

169-662: The synod meets annually in January in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (before 1975 in Bad Godesberg). Its elected leader (praeses) is also leader of the church. The legislative body, then called the provincial synod ( Provinzialsynode ), was already established when the Rhenish church still formed an ecclesiastical province of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union. The then praesides were only speakers of

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