Churwalden monastery
The Churwalden monastery was a Premonstratensian monastery in Churwalden in the canton of Graubünden . It is at the northern end of today's village.
history
The nucleus of the monastery is considered to be the settlement that was probably founded around 1150 by the barons of Vaz . It was created here as a subsidiary of the Roggenburg Monastery . The monastery is documented in 1149 as S. Maria in silva Augeria , 1191 as Curwalde . During the Reformation in 1527, the monastery property was confiscated and the convent was effectively abolished, even if an abbot was in office until 1599 and an administrator of the mother monastery until 1803. The former monastery church of St. Maria and Michael served both denominations as a parish church until 1967.
Abbot building
The so-called abbot building is around 100 meters south of the church. It was built before the middle of the 15th century. It got its current appearance in 1472 after the monastery fire. Renaissance panels and late Gothic wall paintings have been preserved in the abbot's room on the third floor . Around 1870 the house underwent major structural changes around 1870 when a parish apartment was established in it.
literature
- Uta Bergmann: The former Premonstratensian monastery church of St. Maria and Michael Churwalden. (Swiss Art Guide, Volume 611). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1997.
- Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008.
- Erwin Poeschel : Art monuments of the canton of Graubünden. Volume II, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1937.
Web links
- St. Maria and Michael on graubuendenkultur.ch
- Former abbot building on graubuendenkultur.ch
- Castle world: Abtturm Churwalden
Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '21.2 " N , 9 ° 32' 8.8" E ; CH1903: 760,109 / 184145