Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate - Culture and Sightseeing - Buildings

Buildings

Worth seeing is Castle Arras looming above the village, built in the early 12th century. Also nearby stands another castle, the Marienburg in the neighbouring municipality of Zell. The village’s landmark is the belltower at the parish church built in 1734 and later remodelled in Gothic Revival style. There is also a well known statue, Christus in der Rast, from the 15th century.

A few hundred metres from the village centre stands the Electoral-Trier Amtshaus built in the 16th century, a three-floor stone building. The roof was refurbished about 1620

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

• Saint Remigius’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Remigius), Koblenzerstraße 11 – Gothic Revival basilica, quarrystone, 1892-1894; warriors’ memorial before the church; Gothic Revival Crucifixion group, statue Christus in der Rast, about 1500; mission cross, monumental zone with graveyard and rectory.
• Auf der Hill 2 – Late Classicist villa, latter half of 19th century.
• Auf der Hill 3 – Classicist villa from 1853.
• Auf der Hill 4/5 – two-and-a-half-floor Late Classicist quarrystone house with cellar, latter half of 19th century.
• Auf Kockert – old parish church tower, three-floor tower with tent roof from 1734, but essentially mediaeval.
• Auf Kockert 6 – Electoral-Trier Amtshaus, three-floor Early Baroque house with gabled roof, late 16th century, remodelled possibly in 1620-1621 (roof truss dendrochronology), portal from 1700.
• Auf Kockert 10 – former school, timber-frame building, partly solid, essentially early 17th century; oven.
• Auf Kockert 14 – Art Nouveau villa, about 1900.
• Auf Tannerd – villa, Classicist Revival building with mansard roof, 1920s.
• Brunnenstraße 1 – timber-frame house, partly solid, about 1600.
• Ferdinand-Remy-Straße 1 – Late Historicist shophouse, 1902.
• Graveyard – graveyard cross from 1869, four grave crosses from 1848, 18(??); late 19th century, about 1900.
• Junkergasse 8 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, from 1760.
• Koblenzerstraße 12 – plastered timber-frame house, latter half of 18th century.
• Koblenzerstraße 18 – “Hotel zur Post”, former Thurn und Taxis estate, stately post-Baroque plastered building, 1810.
• At Mühlenstraße 2 – Gothic Revival sandstone cross.
• Mühlenstraße 13 – house, partly slated, Swiss chalet style, about 1910.
• Schulgasse 2 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century, but bears yeardate 1580.
• Wilburgstraße 5 – late mediaeval Burgmann’s quarrystone house from 1448 (according to dendrochronology).
• Mountain chapel, north of the village, small aisleless church, 19th century; Pietà from 18th century.
• Burg Arras (castle) – essentially a mediaeval castle complex, fallen into disrepair by late 18th century, expanded in 1907-1910, architect P. Marx, Trier.
• Coat of arms on Bundesstraße 49, 18th century (?).