St. Andreas Chapel (Lumbrein)
The St. Andreas chapel ( Rhaeto-Romanic Sontg Andriu ) is located around two kilometers southeast of Lumbrein in the hamlet of Sontg Andriu in Val Lumnezia in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .
history
Sontg Andriu is first mentioned in 1666. The current chapel was built in 1660 and consecrated on September 10, 1662. There does not seem to have been a previous building.
description
The southeast-facing baroque building consists of a rectangular nave and a recessed square choir; both are covered with cross vaults. The roof was subsequently raised.
The church was completely painted in 1695. Erwin Poeschel comments on this: ... in the individual clumsy, but on the whole with a rustic, decorative effect . The paintings in the picture are signed with the entombment of Johann Christoph Guserer from Dingolfingen in Bavaria, who was a painter in the episcopal court in Chur around 1695 . The walls depict apostles, saints as well as Placidus and Sigisbert von Disentis , and pictures from the passion story on the vault.
The high altar dates from around 1750, the side altars were built around 1720.
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literature
- Erwin Poeschel: Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume IV, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1942, p. 190
- Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008; P. 194
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Coordinates: 46 ° 40 '24.1 " N , 9 ° 6' 48.7" E ; CH1903: seven hundred twenty-eight thousand one hundred fifty-two / 170492