St. Lambertus (Edingen)

General view from the front

Romanesque tower

inside view

St. Lambertus is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Edingen district of the Ralingen parish in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

The building is registered as a monument in the list of cultural monuments in Ralingen and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Lambert von Liège .

history

Until 2007, the parish of St. Lambertus Edingen still had the following subsidiary communities: St. Silvester Minden and St. Johannes Menningen . On July 3, 2007, these branch parishes were changed to the parish of St. Ambrosius Irrel .

Building history

A church in Edingen is first mentioned in a document in 1161. The Romanesque bell tower of this church is still preserved. The tower of St. Peter in Echternach served as a model . The nave was rebuilt in 1775 and rebuilt several times in 1837 and 1860. Today the church is a single-nave building with a baroque nave and a Romanesque bell tower on the side of the nave.

Furnishing

Of the furnishings, the baroque high altar with the two side altars should be mentioned, a sandstone relief of St. Nicholas and the baptismal font, also made of stone.

Pastor

The following priests have worked as pastors in the parish of St. Lambertus:

from ... to Surname 1784-1803 Johann Baptist Feller 1807-1820 Adam Brienes 1820-1830 Nikolaus Richartz 1831-1881 Peter lights 1881-1887 Johann Adam Weber 1888-1894 Johann Thomas Bahles 1897-1910 Philipp Neises 1910-1921 Johann Louis 1921-1929 Matthias Klein 1929-1937 Hermann Lieberich

from ... to Surname 1937-1955 Dionysius Schweisthal 1957-1962 Stephan Horvath 1962-1967 Thomas Schmitz 1968-1997 Josef Maas 1997-2004 Stephan Gerber 2004-2005 Berthold Fochs 2005-2011 Wilhelm Reichardt 2011-2013 Hermann Zangerle 2013-2015 Markus Nicolay Since 2015 Franz-Josef linen

Web links

Commons : St. Lambertus (Edingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Christian Müller: The new parish community Trierweiler. The eight parishes at a glance. Trierweiler-Igel-Liersberg-Langsur-Mesenich-Wintersdorf-Ralingen-Edingen, Trierweiler 2012. Pages 111 and 122
2. ^ Franz Christian Müller: The new parish community Trierweiler. The eight parishes at a glance. Trierweiler-Igel-Liersberg-Langsur-Mesenich-Wintersdorf-Ralingen-Edingen, Trierweiler 2012. Page 113 ff.
3. ^ Franz Christian Müller: The new parish community Trierweiler. The eight parishes at a glance. Trierweiler-Igel-Liersberg-Langsur-Mesenich-Wintersdorf-Ralingen-Edingen, Trierweiler 2012. Page 88.
4. ^ [1] Internet site Parish Community Trierweiler

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 54.4 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 23"  E