Kirche St. Lambertus, Protected parish church in Manderfeld, Belgium.
Kirche St. Lambertus is a parish church in Büllingen featuring a single nave constructed from rough stone and a west tower that predates the main structure. The building's primary construction dates to the 16th century and reflects the architectural approach of that period.
The church was first documented in the 14th century in a register of parishes of the Diocese of Cologne, but its origins go back to the 11th or 12th century, when the Romanesque tower base was laid. The present building dates from around 1520, when the tower was reused and the nave rebuilt. The coat of arms of Trier elector Richard von Greiffenklau on the tower bears the year 1549, though he died in 1531. Renovations followed in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and at the end of the 20th century.
The church is dedicated to Saint Lambert, and the village's cross path grew from a relic of the True Cross brought back by two pilgrims from the Holy Land in 1765. A Kreuzbruderschaft, or cross brotherhood, formed in the village and commissioned the stations together with pastor Hilger Urbanus. The neo-Gothic statues of the four evangelists now stand on the walls of the 1659 sacristy.
The church stands in Manderfeld, part of the Büllingen municipality in Belgium's German-speaking Community. The thirteen sandstone stations of the cross line a grass strip on the south side of the church, while the fourteenth, the Siebenschläfer-Häuschen, sits in its own chapel-like structure north of the nave at the height of the tower. All stations were restored between 2000 and 2001.
The fourteenth station, north of the tower, is a chapel-like structure with a niche showing seven figures weeping over Christ's body; locals call it the Siebenschläfer-Häuschen. All thirteen sandstone stations along the south wall and this house were carved by the sculptor Heinrich Hörner, whose workshop was in Prüm.
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