Haldenstein Reformed Church

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Side view of the mighty nave
The interior of the reformed church Haldenstein

The Reformed Church in Haldenstein outside the Grisons canton capital Chur is an Evangelical - Reformed church from the year 1732. From the previous building, the ersturkundlich mid-12th century is mentioned is the bell tower. The church was originally consecrated to Saint Gereon of Cologne .

History and equipment

Today's church is a new baroque building from 1732. It was renovated in 1923 and restored in 1982 for the last time. The mighty nave is a hall building under a high hipped roof , as it is otherwise unknown in the Chur region. The slender tower with a two-story bell house dates from the Middle Ages. It has an onion dome that dates back to 1765.

In front of the church entrance on the right is a bell from 1678 by Gaudenz Hempel (Chur). There, on the north-facing wall of the church, there are three grave tablets from the 17th and 18th centuries. Not far from there, on the north wall of the cemetery, there are tombstones of the noble families von Schauenstein and von Salis (17th - 18th centuries) as well as a coat of arms of Johann Jakob Castion (1545) from the castle.

The interior of the hall church is not structured. The wooden ceiling is equipped with profiled strips from the years 1764–65. The polygonal wooden pulpit dates from the construction period. The presumably late Gothic baptismal font also serves as the Lord's Supper table . The tubular pneumatic organ from 1930 has been preserved in its original state. It was restored in 1993. It has 17 registers.

Church organization

Haldenstein was in pastoral fellowship with the Reformed in Untervaz from 1992 to 2012 , where the parish office and the parsonage were also located. Since 2012 Haldenstein has been an independent parish of the Colloquium V Herrschaft - Five Villages within the Evangelical Reformed Church of Graubünden . The parish has around 480 parishioners (2014).

gallery

  • Haldenstein Church, view from the northeast

  • Medieval church tower

  • Portal and tower with clock

  • Bell from 1678, Gaudenz Hempel (Chur)

Web links

Commons : Reformierte Kirche Haldenstein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludmila Seifert-Uherkovich, Leza Dosch: Art Guide through Graubünden 2008 , Bern 2008. p. 44.
  2. ↑ Ludmila Seifert-Uherkovich, Leza Dosch: Art Guide through Graubünden 2008 , Bern 2008. p. 44.
  3. ↑ Arno Caluori, Stephan Thomas: The renovated organ in the Haldenstein church, 1993. Haldenstein 1994 (10 pages)

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '43.8 "  N , 9 ° 31' 33.1"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifty-nine thousand and eighty-seven  /  one hundred ninety-four thousand and eighty-five