Sacred Heart Church (Samedan)
The Roman Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche ( Baselgia catolica Herz-Jesu ) built in 1911 in the neo-Romanesque style in the municipality of Samedan , Grisons ( Switzerland ) in the Maloja region in the diocese of Chur is a protected cultural asset .
Most of the masses are read in German , some also in Italian .
history
Christianity is said to have come from northern Italy to the Engadine in the 10th century . In 1551 Samedan joined the Reformation . From 1860 the number of Catholics grew again, which made it necessary to have a separate church. In 2000 about 49% of the population belonged to the Reformed faith and about 39% to the Catholic faith.
The church was built in 1910 by Nicolaus Hartmann jun. (1880–1956) planned and built in 1911, who also planned other important hotel buildings and buildings for the Rhaetian Railway in the region, drawing on regional building styles and craft traditions as the basis for his planning.
In 2013 the church was renovated.
Church building
Outside
The external appearance of the church is dominated by the facade cladding with quarry stone masonry and the design as a fortified church . The rectory is attached directly to the church. The tower, the church and the rectory are covered with slate .
The church, tower and the rectory are surrounded by an area with wide, low fencing. The church itself has two aisles. Above the main entrance, between the flanking, projecting gate towers , there is a rose window ( wheel window ).
Tower and bells
There are three bells in the belfry of the tower that dominates the area. The small and large bells come from the Goldau landslide chapel . The big bell bears the year 1505 without any indication of where it was cast.
Inside
The carved and ornamentally painted wooden ceiling ends at the choir arch . On the left, instead of an altar of Mary, the pulpit with painted evangelist symbols is attached. The rich and colorful painting of the apse was done by Richard Arthur Nüscheler (1877–1950). The high altar with ciborium and the hll. Sebastian , Luzius , Florian and Petrus from the Stark workshop , Nuremberg . The pews are made of simple fir wood with small carvings (rosettes) and offer seating for around 160 people . The floor consists of rough, rectangular stone slabs.
On the right is a side chapel that stretches the entire length of the nave and has a ceiling similar to that in the main nave. It offers around 40 people a seat on simple pews made of fir wood and without carvings. The floor consists of rectangular red tiles.
Stations of the Cross
The stations of the cross are painted and labeled on the long walls of the nave.
Web links
- Catholic parish church Herz-Jesu , website of the Cantonal Library of Graubünden.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Surtuor 19, 7503 Samedan.
- ↑ See also: Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland
- ↑ KGS no .: 10055.
- ↑ Catholic Church Samedan , Pastoral Care Association Bernina, last accessed on September 10, 2018.
- ^ History of the parish , website San Spiert, last accessed on September 7, 2018.
- ^ Ottavio Clavuot: Samedan. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 20, 2012 , accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ^ Sights , website of the municipality of Samedan, last accessed on September 10, 2018.
- ^ Art Guide through Switzerland, Ed. Society for Swiss Art History, Volume 2, Bern 2005.
- ↑ Katholische Herz Jesu Kirche Samedan , website engadin.stmoritz.ch, last accessed on 10 September 2018.
- ^ Sights , website of the municipality of Samedan, last accessed on September 10, 2018.
- ^ Art Guide through Switzerland, Ed. Society for Swiss Art History, Volume 2, Bern 2005.
Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '2.4 " N , 9 ° 52' 3.6" E ; CH1903: seven hundred eighty-six thousand three hundred twenty / 156 518