The Carmelite church contains some richly carved sixteenth-century monuments, now somewhat mutilated, but very beautiful.
The Templehof perpetuates the fact that it was the Knights Templars of Boppart who first mounted the breach at the storming of Ptolemais in the third crusade.
This completes the list of Boppart's ecclesiastical monuments.
GENERAL VIEW
of BOPPART
[{193}] In the fourteenth century the town was a "free imperial city"; but, following upon political dissension with its neighbours, it was returned to the guardianship of the Archbishop of Trèves.
Previously it would appear that the inhabitants had not been very religious, but the archbishop was able to induce them to build him a château here as a place of temporary residence; "the first service," says the chronicle of the time, "which we have rendered our gracious master."
