Brunnadern Reformed Church
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The Reformed Church Brunnadern is a baroque country church by the builder Johann Ulrich Grubenmann in Brunnadern SG ( Neckertal municipality ).
Building history
The parish of Brunnadern became independent in 1763. In the same year, the Teufen builder Johann Ulrich Grubenmann was commissioned to design a church. The building was carried out by Josef Nie and Jakob Messmer and inaugurated in 1664. The small hall church has a three-sided end to which the tower is attached. The resulting windowless choir wall was provided with a pulpit . The central position of the pulpit with the baptismal font in front of it comes close to the reformed ideal concept of the sermon hall and thus anticipates Grubenmann's main work, the transverse church of Wädenswil . The church is illuminated through high windows. The roof construction is remarkable , which the bridge builder Grubenmann, like in his other church buildings , executed in the form of a hanging frame with two longitudinal girders, here also with a stabilizing ridge beam.
Furnishing
The Rococo - stucco work by Johann Georg Graf come from the construction of the church. The gallery is in the Louis XVI style .
literature
- Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 1. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2005, page 410.
- Joseph Killer: The works of the master builders Grubenmann - A building history and structural engineering research work . Dissertation. Federal Technical University. Gebr. Leemann and Co., Zurich 1942, pp. 132-134. ( doi: 10.3929 / ethz-a-000091759 )