St. Lambertus (Kalterherberg)

St. Lambertus in the evening (2011)

St. Lambertus (Kalterherberg) from a bird's eye view (2017)

St. Lambertus is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Monschau district of Kalterherberg , it was named after the first local bishop Lambert von Liège and is also known as the Eifeldom as one of several churches .

prehistory

Development of the parish

According to a visitation report from 1550, a chapel existed as part of the Konzen parish , which was looked after by the local Premonstratensian monastery in Reichenstein . The gradual expansion into an independent parish took place in 1687 with the acquisition of the right to baptize and the employment of a secular priest and in 1753 with the right to celebrate the marriage sacrament in the Kalterherberger chapel. When the first diocese of Aachen was organized by Bishop Marc-Antoine Berdolet , Kalterherberg was made an independent parish in the canton of Monschau in 1804, which continued to grow strongly in the course of the industrialization of the Monschau textile industry. In 2007 the Catholic parishes of Kalterherberg, Monschau, Imgenbroich, Höfen, Konzen, Mützenich and Rohren were combined to form the Community of Communities (GdG) Monschau .

Previous buildings

The first chapel was enlarged by a tower in 1693, in 1767 a new nave measuring 10 by 19 meters was built, the following year the sacristy and choir were demolished and replaced with a larger sacristy and a choir with a semicircular apse.

Church building

Due to the growth of the congregation to approx. 1100 members, the church was no longer sufficient. In 1866, Pastor Hermkes (in Kalterherberg 1862–69) set up a fund for the new building of the church. After thirty years, construction of the neo-Romanesque Eifel cathedral began in 1897 under the subsequent pastor Gerhard Arnoldy (1869–1914) . The new building of the three-aisled basilica with a 42-meter-high double tower facade should cost around 112,600 marks according to a cost estimate. In 1898 there were a total of 92,000 marks in the building fund. The remainder that had to be raised was roughly paid off by a house collection. The cathedral was built by the building contractor Dohmen from Heimbach according to the plans of the Cologne architect Theodor Cremer. The quarry stones of the building were taken from a quarry on the Richelsley , the use of which was allowed free of charge by the civil parish.

After the consecration on 6 May 1900, the church was on 14 July 1901 by the Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Anton Fischer ordained .

In 1902 the mission cross was installed in the cathedral and the five rosary windows were installed by the company Glasmalerei Oidtmann from Linnich, which show the holy family. The old, too small church was torn down. In 1903 the Maria-Hilf-Altar was donated by the Moll siblings and the new way of the cross was built in the church. In the following decades the church received three new bells, a new organ from the Breuer workshop in Zülpich, a new choir stalls and a heating system. Under Pastor Lambertz the church was painted by August Degen jr. from Mönchengladbach.

The church was extensively renovated between 1954 and 1957. She also received the two candlesticks, the tabernacle and the artistic entrance portal from Egino Weinert . In the entrance area there is a statue of Stephan Horrichem (1607–1686), a prior of the former Reichenstein monastery. After the Way of the Cross was stolen in 1994, a glass mosaic work by Heribert Reul was installed in 2020, which was created in the 1960s for the St. Antonius Church in Krefeld, which was demolished in 2005.

literature

• Rainer Mertens (Red.), Parish St. Lambertus (Kalterherberg): One hundred years of the Eifel Cathedral. 1901-2001. Monschau 2001;
• Wolfgang Zahn: One hundred years of the "Eifeldom" St. Lambertus. In: Denkmalpflege im Rheinland, 17 (2000), 4, pp. 179–185;

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage Kalterherberg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Richelsley
3. ^ Equipment from St. Lambertus. Church in the Diocese of Aachen, archived from the original on August 23, 2011 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 . 
4. ↑ St. Lambertus at baukunst-nrw
5. ↑ Resurrection of a Krefeld Way of the Cross. April 11, 2020, accessed April 11, 2020 . 

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '14.6 "  N , 6 ° 13' 15.1"  E