Parish Church of Vrin

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The parish church in the middle of the village

The Catholic parish church of the Birth of Mary and Johannes Baptist in Vrin in the municipality of Lumnezia in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland can be seen from afar, a large hall in Italian style in the Val Lumnezia .

history

The church is first mentioned in 1345. In 1504 it was rebuilt. 1689–94, the architect Antonio Beroggio from Roveredo built a new building with a free-standing tower with two bell- storeys and a curved helmet. Restorations took place in 1919 and 1979 to 1984.

construction

View from the north
Ossuary

The church in Vrin is a baroque building with two transept-like side chapels and a closed choir. On the occasion of the last restoration, the polychrome exterior painting was also restored and supplemented. On the north side there is an ossuary with a frieze of skulls under the roof. The small Renaissance altar inside dates from the first half of the 17th century.

The exterior is divided into five compartments by pilaster strips . The interior of the church is covered by a barrel vault. The stucco work in the Italian style is believed to come from Giovanni Battista Broggio and focuses on the chapel vaults. The ceiling paintings are by Christoph Guserer.

The images of the Virgin Mary in the ceiling medallions are by Johann Christoph Guserer from around 1700. The two-story high altar was probably created in 1710 by Johannes Ritz. The richly carved choir stalls are from around 1700, the stucco side altars from 1697. The Pietà in front of the left side altar dates from 1504.

GA Caminada's death room

The octagonal font is from the 15th century, the wooden top from the beginning of the 18th century and the pulpit from 1709.

The house of the dead below the church was developed in 2003 by Gion A. Caminada in collaboration with the local population.

gallery

  • inner space

  • Gallery

  • Choir stalls

  • High altar

literature

  • Peda Art Guide: Vrin ; Passau ² / 2005
  • Erwin Poeschel : Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume IV, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1942, p. 267
  • Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008; P. 195

Web links

Commons : Catholic church Vrin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Zeitung : A house for the living and the dead ( Memento from March 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '4.1 "  N , 9 ° 10' 25.4"  E ; CH1903:  732 648  /  175533