Bergkirchli

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Exterior view

The Bergkirchli is the oldest church in the Graubünden spa town of Arosa and at the same time its oldest surviving structure. It is located in Innerarosa on the way between the Schanfigger Heimatmuseum and the Tschuggen , directly at the valley station of the Carmenna chairlift at 1900  m above sea level. M.

History and equipment

The Bergkirchli was completed in 1493 and, after the adoption of the Reformation in Arosa, served the Reformed parish as a preaching church from 1530 . Today, spa concerts are held there in the summer and winter seasons. In religious use, the church stands for funerals and wedding celebrations , as well as for short services on major public holidays. Since 1909, Sunday services have mainly been held in the village church .

In 1762 a house organ was built into the church , which dates back to 1730 and has four registers. Two restorations took place in 1974 and 1997.

Church organization

With the Bergkirchli as a preaching site, Arosa forms an independent parish within the Evangelical Reformed Church of Graubünden . There it belongs to the Colloquium VI Schanfigg-Churwalden .

Varia

A 1:25 scale model of the Bergkirchli is available from Swissminiatur in Melide (exhibition number 13). There is a Protestant church on Lenzerheide , which is sometimes popularly called the Bergkirchli.

gallery

  • Bergkirchli Arosa

  • Heinrich Pestalozzi's poem related to the cemetery on the facade of the Bergkirchli

  • Wooden plaque next to the entrance to the history of the mountain church

  • The Bergkirchli at Swissminiatur

  • View from the Poststrasse Innerarosa

literature

  • Reinhard Kramm (Ed.): Mein Bergkirchli - 500 years of Innerarosa Church, Arosa 1993.
  • Beat Fischer: 500 years of Bergkirchli Arosa (with many references to local history) , self-published by Beat Fischer, Chur 1992.
  • JB Casty: Arosa - From the local history of the world-famous health resort , Verlag Kur- und Verkehrsverein Arosa, Arosa 1959/60, pp. 89–93.

Web links

Commons : Bergkirchli Arosa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  • Fritz Maron: From mountain farming village to world health resort Arosa , Verlag F. Schuler, Chur 1934, p. 260 ff.
  • Robert Just: The community of Arosa , Arosa 1908.

Coordinates: 46 ° 46 '29.4 "  N , 9 ° 39' 34.9"  E ; CH1903:  769613  /  one hundred eighty-two thousand eight hundred and eight