Rein church

Rein church

The Rein church is one of the Reformed churches of the Evangelical Reformed parish of Rein and is located in the Rein district of the Aargau community of Rüfenach .

history

A church was probably built at the current location in the middle of the 8th century. The current church was built in 1864 after the previous building had been demolished the year before due to dilapidation. The church was built in the style of historicism according to plans by the Zurich state architect Johann Caspar Wolff .

epitaph

epitaph

At the church there is an epitaph from 1664 for pastor (?) Johann Marikius. On the edge it is written:

FOR ∙ ∙ loyalty of James
WAR ∙ ∙ Laban PAY ∙ ∙ VF THE EARTH ∙ ∙
MEİNECRON ∙ ∙ BUT iez
İS ∙ ∙ me BER ^E IT ∙ ∙ LEBENFREÜD VND ∙ ∙ bliss

The inscription reads: DOMS HİCRESUR EXPECTAT DN İOHANN MARİKİVS QVİ ∙ POSTEAQ ∙ CORD ∙ CASTITATE ∙ DOCTA ∙ SINCERITATE ∙ VİTÆ Q İNTEGRİTATE ∙ ANNOS XXXVI ME VII ∙ HANCECCL ∙ ∙ HANCECCL ∙ ∙ PAVXİTUR ∙ PLITIVİTUR ∙ PLATIVİTUR ∙ XXXVI ME VII ∙ HANCECCL ∙ PLVİTUR ∙ XXX ∙ PLVİTUR ∙ CHANCECCL ∙ PAVXİTUR ∙ XXX. LXVI.M.XI.

Translated roughly: Holy to the best and greatest God Here ... [ DN ] Johann Marikius the ... ... chastity ... honesty ... integrity years 36 months 7 in this church [ pavisset ] life [ tand ] fulfilled quietly extinct. [Day] October 20, 1664. [His age was] 66 months.

Web links

Commons : Kirche Rein (Rüfenach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kirche Rein on the website of the ev.-ref. Parish of Rein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deo Optimo Maximo # extensions

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '26.9 "  N , 8 ° 13' 45.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-seven  /  two hundred sixty-two thousand one hundred and fifty-eight