Caplutta Sontga Clau
The Caplutta Sontga Clau ( Sursilvan for "Chapel of Saint Nicholas ") is a small chapel in the Dardin fraction in the municipality of Breil / Brigels in the Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .
location
The north-east facing chapel stands high above Capeder, a hamlet belonging to the Dardin fraction, next to a few stable barns in the former settlement of Pugaus (Arpagaus) at an altitude of 1,290 meters. Pugaus was abandoned around 1800.
history
Originally, an earlier chapel from the Middle Ages is said to have been consecrated to the Holy Trinity at the same location . The reason for the change of title and the new building around 1708–1710 was presumably a farmer who is said to have come across a painted statue of St. Nicholas while plowing his field at the beginning of the 18th century.
construction
The vaulted baroque chapel is covered with stone slabs and equipped with a small, niche-like choir. The paintings were made in 1710 by the Chur painter Johann Jakob Rieg (1678 – approx. 1731). A Rhaeto-Romanic inscription above the front door names the painter: Johannes Jacobus Rieg maller and the donor: Jo (hann) Benedet Vinzen (s) ha Fatg Fare Questa Cabluta malegau (Johann Benedikt Vinzens had this chapel painted). Benedict Vinzens from Dardin is mentioned in Dardin's death book as the founder of the chapel. The wooden figure of Santa Claus (copy) is 92.5 cm high and dates from the middle of the 14th century. The timbered porch was added around 1800. To the left of the entrance is an outside altar, where the liturgy could be celebrated during larger masses.
The bell dates from 1708 and bears the inscription "SANCTE NICOLAE ET SANCTE ANTONI ORATE PRO NOBIS. (Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony pray for us). GOSS ME ANDREAS A PORTA VON BREGENTZ MD CC VIII."
The chapel was probably also visited by pilgrims who were on their way to Disentis . At that time the main traffic route through the Surselva did not run along the valley floor, but ran through a few hundred meters below Pugaus. In 2000 the chapel was restored.
gallery
altar
Back wall
Choir arch on the left
Painting in the center
literature
- Erwin Poeschel : Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume IV. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1942, p. 380.
- Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008, p. 217.
- Dieter Matti: Old pictures - reinterpreted, church art in the pass country. Volume 3. Desertina, Chur 2012, ISBN 978-3-85637-370-2 , pp. 43-46.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Collenberg: Dardin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .