Chapel of St. Karl Borromeo
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Karl Borromeo is located in Uors in the Val Lumnezia in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . It is dedicated to Karl Borromeo .
construction
The north-east facing church consists of an almost square nave and a polygonal , tapering choir. The little turret crowned with an octagonal pointed helmet stands on the east side, the sacristy is built on the west side.
Structural signs such as the shape of the window and the shape of the choir arch indicate that in 1616 a new choir was added to an older nave instead of an existing smaller choir.
The hall is covered with a flat wooden strip ceiling from 1926. The paintings in the choir were created in 1616 by Hans Jakob Greutter; they are signed on the apex of the choir arch. On the walls they show the Lord's Supper and Gethsemane, in the vaulted choir the evangelists , the four church fathers , trumpet- blowing angels and Renaissance ornaments. In the choir arch reveal twelve half-figures of Christ's ancestors, whose names are written on ribbons. In 1926 the pictures were restored by the Christian Schmitt company from Zurich.
On the north wall of the ship there are 21 pictures from the life of Karl Borromeo from the middle of the 17th century.
The simple late Renaissance altar with two columns dates from 1643; the altar sheet is by Georg Wilhelm Graesner from Konstanz. The two bells date from 1617 and 1635.
gallery
inner space
Wall paintings in the choir
Representations of evangelists
Painting of the choir arch reveal
Side wall painting
literature
- Erwin Poeschel : Art monuments of the canton of Graubünden. Volume IV. Birkhäuser, Basel 1942; P. 157.
- Ludmila Seifert and Leza Dosch: Art guides through Graubünden. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008; P. 198.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '4.5 " N , 9 ° 10' 59.4" E ; CH1903: 733411 / 173 708