Basilika St. Lambertus
Gothic brick basilica with a twisted spire, ducal crypt and a lavish Renaissance marble tomb.
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This guide to the Basilika St. Lambertus in Düsseldorf follows Jakobea of Baden, a margrave's daughter married in fifteen eighty-five to a duke who could not rule. It moves through a sixteenth-century court split between her and her sister-in-law Sibylle, a duchy with no heir, and the gossip that put a young bailiff in the castle tower. Best heard standing in the ambulatory behind the high altar, facing the marble tomb of Duke William.
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