Sint-Lambertuskerk (Kralingen)

The Sint-lambertuskerk is a Roman Catholic Church in Rotterdam-Kralingen.

The Lambert's Church is on the corner of the Baltic Sea Down embankment and the Hoflaan. He was in neo-Gothic style designed by Evert Margry, a pupil of p.j.h. Cuypers, and built in the period 1875-1878. On 26 June 1878 the Church was dedicated to Saint Lambert, the Patron Saint of Kralingen.

Originally, the Interior of the Church kept simple, but in 1900 the Church got a new organ of the well-known orgelsbouwers m & Zn. In 1903, the Interior of the Church withpolychrome paintings. In the twenty years were the side aisles extended.

In the Tower hang two ringing bells with the tones G ' and D ''. They have electric loud establishments. In the back of the Church in the Northern Maria choir there is a small loud clock posted that supposedly has hung in the Flèche and served as angelus Bell .''

The Sint-lambertuskerk is a national monument. The view of the upper Baltic Sea embankment is not obstructed by the houses Down to the Baltic sea dike construction. As a result, the high, pointed to a tower of the Saint Lambert des more striking appearance.

The name of the nearby lambertusstraat is first mentioned in 1874. Also not far is the Lambertweg, named after the Lambert family who in 1927 in the 18th and 19th century various mayors of Kralingen had produced. [1]