Log4j does literally nothing?

Question

My configuration file is path of the class path. At least I thought it is. I placed the log4j.properties file in the resources folder and log4j does nothing with it. Even if I delete it, no error occurs.

As anyone can see I'm using maven

Content of LoggerTest:

package com.dersimi.stella.logger;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

public class LoggerTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("xxx");
        Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(LoggerTest.class);
        logger.info("Hello this is an info message");
        System.out.println("xxx");
    }
}

Program output:

xxx


xxx

Content of log4j.properties:

log4j.rootLogger=INFO, console
log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.console.Threshold=INFO
log4j.appender.console.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.console.layout.conversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p - %m%n

In pom.xml is nothing out of the ordinary, just the dependency org.apache.logging.log4j log4j-core 2.17.2, compiler source target is 16, no plugins