Bodme
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 Valais (VS)
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| District : | Goms | |
| Municipal municipality : | Blitzingen | |
| Coordinates : | 659 059 / 143797 | |
| Height : | 1260 m above sea level M. | |
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Bodme (sometimes also written Bodmen ) is a village and former municipality in Goms . Today Bodme belongs to the municipality of Blitzingen in the canton of Valais .
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 1347, when the community bought itself out of all taxes and services that it had previously provided to the knights Johan and Heinrich von Restin. On October 6, 1348, a donation was made in honor of the Holy Trinity, Our Lady and the Baptist, which had been made in the form of a fund. Its use from the following centuries is unclear, as the Chapel of the Holy Trinity was first mentioned in 1684. Two village fires are recorded. During the fire in 1722, the chapel was so damaged that it had to be rebuilt. Four houses were destroyed in the fire in 1831.
The municipality of Bodme merged in 1848 with the four other municipalities of Ammern, Blitzingen, Wiler and Gadmen to form the new municipality of Blitzingen.
location
The village is located on the south bank of the Rotten opposite Blitzingen, connected by a bridge. The village is a clustered village that is located in a tub framed by a step to the south and east, while the Rotten, in a loop, leads north and west around the village. In the middle of the village is the chapel, around which the houses crowd, the utility buildings are mainly on the edge of the village.
building
Holy Trinity Chapel
The chapel is first mentioned in 1684 in a parish file in Biel. The chapel was so badly affected by the village fire that it was decided to build a new one. The patronage of the Holy Trinity is always given for the chapel in the visitation files. Presumably since the fire in 1722 it has been called the Agatha Chapel by the people, and also the Chapel of Our Lady since the middle of the 18th century.
In the 18th century it was subjected to a comprehensive interior renovation, in which new windows were installed and the wall cornices were installed. The ceiling painting was created in 1778 by a painter Pfefferle. The year 1844 can be found in the foremost chapel bank in the right row. In 1863 another renovation took place. The renovation in 1926 was carried out by Ernst Bodenmüller and Jean Rossi, the painter was Jos. Mother from Natters. In 1947 the painter Edmund Imboden worked in the chapel. In 1977/78 there was another renovation.
The building with its choir , which faces the slope, faces southeast. The laterally drawn-in choir is raised by one step to the nave . The chapel has a contiguous gable roof with a bell cage on the portal side. The front of the portal has a round portal made of stone, above which there is a niche with a statue of Our Lady. A large gable loculus is located above it . The chancel is covered with a five-part stucco rosette, while the ship is spanned by a divided gypsum barrel.
The altar was consecrated in 1722. It was founded in 1926 by Jos. Mother from Natters renovated, and in 1945 by Werner Salzgeber from Raron, newly gilded and refreshed.
literature
- Walter Ruppen: Art Monuments of Switzerland Volume 67 "The Art Monuments of the Canton of Valais Volume 2 Untergoms" , Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 1979, ISBN 3-7643-1080-4 , pp. 237–245