Flüeli Chapel
The Flüeli Chapel , officially Chapel of St. Charles Borromeo , the village chapel in Flüeli-Ranft in the Swiss canton of Obwalden from the year 1618. It stands as a cultural asset of national importance under conservation .
history
The chapel stands on the rock that shields the old part of the Flüelis from the Sarneraatal . This rock (Old High German: fluoh ; New High German: Fluhe, Flühe, diminutive : Flühli ) gave the name of the place and the family of brother Klaus (von Flüe) .
The chapel was built from 1614/1615 to 1618 under the Sachsler pastor Johannes Zimmermann (1568–1629). That was the time shortly before the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War , when there were hardly any major construction projects. Johannes Zimmermann was also the founder of the chapel together with his sister Verena. Another donor was the Landseckelmeister Kaspar Rohrer († 1617), and the government also contributed 100 guilders to the construction. At the request of Zimmermann and the government, seven Catholic towns donated status discs .
The chapel was consecrated on October 16, 1618 by the Auxiliary Bishop of Constance Johann Jakob Mirgel (1559–1629) in honor of St. Charles Borromeo . The Milanese Archbishop Karl Borromeo (1538–1584) was an early admirer of Brother Klaus (1417–1487), as his pilgrimage to his grave in 1570 shows. He was canonized eight years before the chapel was consecrated.
The Ranft- Pfrund , donated by Brother Klaus in 1482, was relocated from Ranft to Flüeli two years after the chapel was built in 1621 through an addition to the letter of the foundation . In it, the church council of Sachseln described and supplemented the letter of 1482 in more detail in 17 points, so that the foundation, which has since then also been known as the chaplain fründe , all three chapels, in Ranft and on the Flüeli, as well as the Sigristenhaus and the former forest brotherhood in Ranft and the chaplaincy included in the Flüeli. The first chaplain on Flüeli from 1621 - previously there had been chaplains in Ranft since 1477 - was Johann Wolf vom Schwendi.
The Sachsler pastor Pirmin Wirz (1773–1833) donated an organ to the chapel in 1823 , which replaced an earlier organ from 1805 in the choir gallery.
During the renovation work between 1868 and 1870, the middle roof tower was given a pointed helmet. In 1883 the nave was extended by a window axis by 4.5 meters and a sign was added that goes back to Italian models. At the same time, additional arched windows were broken out and the gallery with a new organ built by the organ builder Johann Andreas Otto from Lucerne . After one of the coat of arms panes donated during the building was destroyed in a burglary in 1909 , the remaining panes were installed in the windows of the choir. The chapel was last restored in 1980/1981. In addition to various renovations, a new celebration altar was installed, the pulpit was brought down to the level of the choir floor, floor heating was installed and hand-made clay slabs were laid over it. The roof tower, which had received a disruptive, Biedermeier helmet in 1883 , received its original finish. The confessional was removed from the choir and moved under the gallery.
Architectural style
Of the three chapels in Flüeli, the Borromeo Chapel is the youngest, but the most interesting in terms of art and cultural history. Stylistically it can be classified in the Renaissance . The exterior of the chapel is simple and reserved. The polygonal sacristy extension and the three graceful roof turrets with their early Baroque-style Italian hoods contribute to a festive silhouette effect. The elegant dome-like hoods with their bright red shingle roof are among the earliest roof shapes of this type in Central Switzerland and only became popular in the 17th century.
Furnishing
Wall paneling in the choir with elaborate inlay work
Detail of the panel, in the upper frieze a hunt with dogs, unicorn , deer, wolf and hare
Gallery and ceiling in the choir
Wall panels with oil paintings
Glass painting in one of the windows, donated by Hans Villiger, dated 1614
Organ gallery and ceiling
"The Flüeli Chapel is one of the most interesting chapel buildings in Central Switzerland."
The most valuable jewelry of the chapel are the inlay work on the choir panel and on the door to the sacristy. These are decorated with flower vases, birds, putti , foliage, tassels and strings of pearls. Further highlights are the inlaid hipped ceilings in the nave and in the choir . They consist of fields that are decorated in the choir with rich ornamental painting with rosettes, frames and fittings. The field ceiling of the ship is alternately decorated with flower-shaped and star-shaped rosettes with bird motifs and simple fittings. As a special feature, there is a gallery in the choir room.
The early baroque high altar dates back to the time it was built and was donated by Count Alfonso Casati (1594–1621), the Spanish ambassador to the federal places who lived in Lucerne . The altar has a two-story structure and represents the type of the strictly architecturally structured Renaissance reredos . The main picture is a work of the Italian school and shows Saint Charles Borromeo in a full-length portrait. In the crown , the adoration of the kings is depicted. On the right front side there is a side altar from 1768, which contains a copy of the Brother Klausen painting by Johann Melchior Wyrsch . The original is in Sarnen's town hall . On the left front side there is a pulpit that was attached to the wall behind it before the renovation in 1980/1981, next to a life-size Brother Klaus statue. A smaller statue now hangs there, a copy of the Brother Klaus statue from 1504. A baroque statue of the Madonna ( Maria the Queen of Heaven ) from around 1600 sits enthroned over the top of the choir arch .
The walls in the ship are covered with a polychrome breast panel with round arched panels. Two picture cycles from the 17th century with a total of 19 oil paintings on canvas are embedded in the panel. These show nine scenes from the life of Brother Klaus on the right and ten pictures from the life of St. Charles Borromeo on the left. In the windows of the chapel there are eight glass paintings from 1614 to 1619. These were donated by the Catholic communities and private donors. In the sacristy there is a mighty buffet from the 17th century.
Today's organ was inaugurated in 1983 and comes from Orgelbau Mathis from Näfels . It has eight registers on two manuals and a pedal .
The chapel has three bells: a September bell from 1678 from Jacob and Daniel Sprüngli from Zofingen and two octave bells from H. Rüetschi in Aarau from 1980. A 374-pound cast steel bell was hung in the tower in 1871 and had been one since 1966 electric bell and was later removed. There was also a smaller bell from 1575 in the tower for a time.
literature
- Robert Durrer : Flüeli-Ranft. In: The art monuments of the canton Unterwalden. Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz , 1, Swiss National Museum, Zurich 1899–1928, reprinted by Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1971. pp. 261–275 a. 1129 f.
- Niklaus von Flüe : Benefactor of the chapels in Ranft and on the Flüeli 1482–2004. Ed .: Chapel Foundation Flüeli-Ranft, 2006. P. 43 ff.
- Remo Rainoni (text), Daniel Reinhard (photos): 400 years of the Flüeli Chapel. Ed .: Katholische Kirchgemeinde Sachseln, 2018.
- André Meyer et al .: The newly restored Karl Borromäus Chapel on the Flüeli. Ed .: Chapel Foundation St. Karl Borromäus Flüeli-Ranft, 1981.
- Leo Lienert, Oberforstamt Obwalden (ed.): Heimatschutz in Obwalden. Verlag Oberforstamt Obwalden, Sarnen 1974, pp. 348–351.
- Ephrem Omlin: churches and chapels. In: Obwaldner Heimatbuch. Verlag Hess, Basel / Engelberg 1953, p. 166 f.
Web links
- Flüeli Chapel , on the website of the parish of Sachseln
- The Flüeli Chapel on the Brother Klausen Foundation website, archive version from December 21, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ A – Objects OW 2018 . Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance. In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 26, 2017 (PDF; 37 kB, 3 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).
- ^ Niklaus von Flüe: Beneficiary of the chapels in Ranft and on the Flüeli 1482–2004. P. 10 f. and p. 30 ff.
- ^ Niklaus von Flüe: Beneficiary of the chapels in Ranft and on the Flüeli 1482–2004. P. 50.
- ^ Niklaus von Flüe: Beneficiary of the chapels in Ranft and on the Flüeli 1482–2004. P. 50.
- ^ Niklaus von Flüe: Beneficiary of the chapels in Ranft and on the Flüeli 1482–2004. P. 52 f.
- ^ The art monuments of the canton Unterwalden , p. 263
- ↑ Catholic village chapel St. Borromäus, Flüeli-Ranft OW. In: Organ Directory Switzerland-Lichtenstein , accessed on October 14, 2018.
Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '20.6 " N , 8 ° 16' 5.9" E ; CH1903: 663251 / one hundred ninety-one thousand five hundred and eighty-seven