Chapel of St. Murezi
The Chapel of St. Murezi (Chapel of Saint Mauritius ) is a little more than a kilometer southeast of Cumbel in the Val Lumnezia in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .
history
St. Murezi is first mentioned in a Carolingian land register as ecclesia St. Mauritii in conspectu around 840 and is therefore probably the oldest church in the valley. In 1703 it was reported that the church was old and dilapidated. Plans to move it closer to the road down the valley failed because of the bishop's objection. In 1716 it was rebuilt using the side nave walls of a previous building from the 11th or 12th century and consecrated on January 30, 1716 with three altars. The nave vault dates from 1749.
It is an east-facing baroque building with barrel vaults with a choir closed on three sides. The facade is divided into six compartments; the paintings in the niches are more recent.
The choir altar dates from 1717; the altarpiece shows Mauritius on horseback. The gable picture with Saint Mauritius and his companions from an older altar around 1610 was probably painted by Hans Jakob Greutter from Brixen . On the brick side altars there is a figure of St. Joseph from the 18th century and a Madonna from the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1935 and 1998–99 the church was renovated and archaeological studies were carried out at the same time. Until the end of the 19th century, St. Mauritius was the destination of a procession in the valley.
gallery
inner space
altar
Joseph
Madonna
literature
- Erwin Poeschel: Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume IV, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1942, p. 151
- Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008; P. 189
Web links
St. Mauritius Chapel at www.graubuendenkultur.ch
Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '0.4 " N , 9 ° 12' 15.1" E ; CH1903: 734938 / 177324