St. Lambertus (Kalkum)

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St. Lambertus Church

The Catholic parish church St. Lambertus in the Düsseldorf district of Kalkum forms the center of the old town center and dates back to the 11th century. The parish of the same name belongs to the Catholic parish community of Angerland / Kaiserswerth.

history

First reports about Kalkum come from the 9th century. It is characterized as a royal court , which consisted of the main courtyard, a church and a water mill. According to a transfer by Arnulf of Carinthia, the royal court, including residents and associated buildings, had been in the possession of the Gandersheim Monastery since around 890 , which had exercised the right of patronage over the parish and church in Kalkum for centuries . The oldest components of today's St. Lambertus Church go back to the 11th century, major buildings were built in the 12th and 13th centuries. The main altar was donated in 1236, which suggests completion this year. From 1597 until the secularization in 1804, St. Lambertus then belonged to the Kaiserswerth monastery . A first restoration took place in the years 1762 to 1768, whereby the existing entrance hall was built by a new one in the baroque style, regardless of the overall appearance of the church. The church was extensively renovated in the 1890s and 1983 in accordance with the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . The baroque vestibule was replaced by a new one in neo-Romanesque style. By lengthening the north nave, space was gained for a sacristy . Until then, the two apses of the side aisles had been used for this purpose.

architecture

As was common in Franconian times , the church is built on a hill. St. Lambertus is a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with side aisles that are quite wide in relation to the main aisles. From east to west there is a gradation from the central apse over the choir, the further raised central nave to the tower in the west. The tower has a rectangular cross-section and is integrated into the central nave, its width occupies the full width of the central nave. The ceiling is a cross vault with one and a half bays in the central nave before the choir area. Each side of the central nave has two upper garden windows. The side aisles also have a cross vault and five round windows each.

Furnishing

The baptismal font of the church is dated around the year 1200. There is a Madonna from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century and a miraculous image of the Mother of God von Kevelaer from 1647. There are two epitaphs , one for a Johann von Winkelhausen of the von Winkelhausen family from 1609, one for Johann von und zu Ossenbroich from 1615. The windows were from designed by the glass painter Ernst Otto Köpke in the 20th century.

organ

The organ was built in 1970 by the organ builder EF Walcker & Cie. built and expanded in 1994 by organ builder Willi Peter (Cologne). The slider chest instrument has 16 stops on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Covered 8th'
3. Octave flute 4 ′
4th Swiss pipe 2 ′
5. Mixture IV
6th shawm 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
7th Reed flute 8th'
8th. Gemshorn 4 '
9. Principal 2 ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Sesquialter I-II
12. Krummhorn 8th'
13. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
14th Sub bass 16 ′
15th Open bass 8th'
16. Choral bass 4 ′

literature

  • Hans Simons: Church leader St. Lambertuskirche Kalkum. Düsseldorf, undated

Web links

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 10.5 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 28.7"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archdiocese of Cologne
  2. ^ Archdiocese of Cologne
  3. ↑ Hans Simons: Church leaders
  4. ↑ Hans Simons: Church leaders
  5. ^ Website of the Archdiocese of Cologne: Works of art by St. Lambertus . Retrieved April 10, 2012
  6. ↑ More information about the organ