St. Lambert (Spay)

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Parish Church of St. Lambertus
inside view

St. Lambert (also: St. Lambertus) is a large neo-Romanesque church in the municipality of Spay in the Rhineland. It is the parish church of Niederspay and was built in the historicizing style in 1899 . The inauguration took place on December 20, 1900.

history

The brick building , which is typical of art history , was planned by the Cologne builders Carl Rüdell and Richard Odenthal and its originality surpasses many of the church buildings erected at the time. The construction of the tower and apse as well as the external design of the gates, additions and eaves lines are closely related to the Hetzendorfer “Rosenkranzkirche” in Vienna- Meidling .

The hexagonal central building with access, to which a two-bay nave is attached on both sides, is particularly unusual . In the west it continues in a strong tower with the portals, while in the east it is closed by a semicircular apse modeled on Aachen Cathedral . In addition to the 40 m high tower, the dome-like hexagon shapes the external appearance of the church (see picture).

Inside, the bright central room supported by six blue marbled columns was adapted to the hexagonal floor plan in the 1990s and received a hexagonal altar island with a likewise hexagonal popular altar . Most of the rest of the furnishings date from the construction period around 1900, and a. the high altar , the neo-Romanesque pulpit, the baptismal font and some frescoes .

In addition to high quality stained glass, an altar triptych and sculptures from the late Middle Ages have been preserved. The altarpiece from the circle of the Cologne master of St. Kinship dates from the end of the 15th century and was re-framed around 1900: the crucifixion group in the middle , St. Peter and John the Baptist to the side. The back, probably from a winged altar, shows eight scenes from the life of Jesus' passion and a saint Barbara (in the Middle Rhine region around 1470).

organ

The organ of the Lambert Church was built in 1903 by the organ building company Christian Gerhard & Sons (Boppard). The instrument has 15 registers on 2 manuals and a pedal . The actions are pneumatic.

I main work C – f 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th flute 4 ′
7th Mixture-Cornett II-III
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II Fernwerk C – f 3
9. Violin principal 8th'
10. Salicional 8th'
11. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
12. Distance flute 8th'
13. Gemshorn 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
14th Sub-bass 16 ′
15th Violonbass 16 ′

Monument protection

The parish church of St. Lambert is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and registered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is on Kirchgasse .

The parish church of St. Lambert has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .

Web links

Commons : St. Lambert  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information on the historic St. Lambert organ ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Mayen-Koblenz district. Mainz 2020, p. 89 (PDF; 5.8 MB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 44.2 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 47.4"  E