Location: Church of St. Cornelius

Lamersdorf Church, chancel 1895-1942

According to old records and oral traditions, the church was built in 1005 by Emperor Henry the Saint.
Lambertstorp is already listed in the parish register of the Jülich deanery in the 13th century as a parish with a vicarage.

The Duke of Jülich had the right of patronage of this church.

Around 1369, Pastor Peter von Kuchenheim (Kuychgenheim) is mentioned for the first time as a priest, and on 8 March 1382, he is listed as the pastor in Lamersdorf in a document of the Count of Jülich concerning the Nothberg church.
On 30.04.1395, under the pastor Peter Harde, Gerlach van Dolre wrote down the register „Alde Erfgulde“, a list of church pensions, on 9 pages, based on an old scroll.

The 3 bronze bells in the belfry of the tower were cast in 1400 and 1401. The bell in the ridge turret originally dates from 1627.

It was hit by gunfire in World War II and recast in 1951 at the Feldmann-Marschel bell foundry in Münster.
In 1809, the entrance to the church was moved from the long side to the tower. During a repair of the church tower in 1827, the eight-sided slate dome is given small gables under the top. In 1835 a porch is built on the church and in 1836 the church roof is repaired.
Extensive renovations and repairs are carried out in the church between 1835 and 1842, and the steeple is repaired again in 1856.
Extensive repairs were also carried out in the following years to preserve the church building.

Lamersdorf Kirche St.Cornelius um 1950

The building suffered severe damage at the end of 1944 when the German units withdrew from the advancing Americans. The vaults and the church roof partially collapse due to rainwater penetration in February and May 1946.

In autumn 1946, the church is provisionally covered with tiles before the Cornelius Octave. Until then, masses were held in the school hall. In July 1948, work began on the necessary repairs, which were not completed until 1950.

In 1996 and 1997, fundamental renovation work was again carried out in the church and the furnishings were restored.

As part of the structural reform in the Aachen diocese, the parish of St. Cornelius Lamersdorf was dissolved on 01.01.2012, after almost 700 years of its first documented mention, and merged with the parishes of St. Clemens and St. Pankratius Inden/Altdorf, St. Nikolaus Frenz and St. Nikolaus Lucherberg to form the new parish of St. Josef within the community of parishes (GdG) Inden/Langerwehe.
St. Cornelius Lamersdorf remains within the parish as a filial church.

Overview Lamersdorf