What is "lambrecht"

Lambrecht is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Lambrecht.

The Verbandsgemeinde Lambrecht consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):

1. Elmstein
2. Esthal
3. Frankeneck
4. Lambrecht
5. Lindenberg
6. Neidenfels
7. Weidenthal

Category:Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate Category:Palatinate Forest

Lambrecht is a Germanic given name originally meaning "famous in his land" (literally: "land-bright").1 It became popular due to Saint Lambrecht of Maastricht (c.636 - c.700). Until after the Middle Ages it was more common in the Low countries than the Latinized equivalent name Lambert (us).

Patronymic surname (incl. Lambrechts)

• Burger Lambrechts (born 1973), South African shot putter
• Charles Joseph Mathieu Lambrechts (1753–1825), Belgian-born lawyer who became Minister of Justice in France during the French Revolution.
• Esther Lambrechts (1919–2011), Flemish singer known as La Esterella
• Finn Lambrechts (1900–1956), Norwegian military officer
• Kálmán Lambrecht (1889–1936), Hungarian palaeontologist
• Knud Lambrecht, American professor
• Master of the Saint Lambrecht Votive Altarpiece (fl. 1410 – 1440), Austrian painter
• Morten Diderik Emil Lambrechts (1824–1900), Norwegian jurist and politician
• Patricia J. and Traci Lambrecht, American authors writing under the pseudonym P. J. Tracy
• Ray Lambrecht, former owner of Lambrecht Chevrolet of Pierce, NE
• Roger Lambrecht (1916–1979). Belgian road bicycle racer

Given name

• Jan Lambrecht Domien Sleeckx (1818–1901), Flemish writer

Places

• Lambrecht (Verbandsgemeinde), Germany
  • Lambrecht, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Sankt Lambrecht, Austria
  • St. Lambrecht's Abbey

Other

• 2861 Lambrecht, asteroid
• Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre, Cape Town, South Africa