Reformed Church Langwies

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Reformed Church Langwies

The Reformed Church in Langwies in Schanfigg is a Protestant - Reformed church , which from afar by its tower with an open belfry strikes and Achteckhelm and shapes the landscape.

The listed building is listed as a B object, as a cultural asset of regional importance for the Canton of Graubünden.

History and equipment

The church, originally Maria consecrated, goes back to a high medieval Foundation of Hans Mattlis called Pregenzer , from the year 1384. The consecration took place in 1385, as well as the dedication of the altar, of the Catherine of Alexandria was dedicated.

In 1475 Langwies broke away from the mother church in St. Peter and became an independent parish. Arosa separated from this in 1492/93 and built its own mountain church.

The oldest structure of the tower and the single-nave nave date from the time of the consecration of the church. The choir was rebuilt in 1477. In 1488, Steffan Klain and Andreas Bühler provided the nave and the choir with a late Gothic vault.

In 1530 Langwies was the first parish in Schanfigg to accept the Reformation through the preacher Philipp Gallicius .

On the north wall of the nave, wall paintings, u. a. with motifs of the Passion of Jesus Christ , exposed at the end of the 14th century. A late Gothic font with a lid from 1751 forms the center of the interior of the church. The wooden pulpit dates back to 1751.

Founding narrative

According to legend, there were disputes over the question of the right place for the church to be built. Together they found the following solution to be good: a white ox should be allowed to graze for a whole day without a shepherd and the place where it would then lie down in the evening should be the place of the new church that is accepted by all. The ox, however, thwarted the request by lying down to sleep in a place that was under the Tschuggen . The place is still called Chilchboden today. But it is so far apart that it could not possibly serve as a building site.

Church organization

Langwies and his church belong to the Colloquium VI Schanfigg-Churwalden within the Evangelical Reformed Church of Graubünden . The pastoral office is provided in part-time office.

gallery

  • West and south facade

  • Stained glass window in the choir

  • Organ on the gallery (the latter on the west wall since 1917, previously on the north wall)

  • on a linocut from 1915

  • on a postcard from 1929

literature

  • Hans Batz: The churches and chapels of the canton of Graubünden. , Volume 4: Chur / Churwalden / Schanfigg / Fünf Dörfer / Maienfeld / Seewis / Schiers / Luzein, Chur 2004, pp. 94–97.

Web links

Commons : Church Langwies  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ B objects GR 2018 . Canton of Graubünden KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (changes marked in blue, municipal mergers). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 403 kB, 13 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue).
  2. ↑ Niklaus Flüeler (Ed.): Culture guide of Switzerland. Ex Libris Verlag AG, Zurich, 1982.

Coordinates: 46 ° 49 '13.4 "  N , 9 ° 42' 47.5"  E ; CH1903:  773,550  /  one hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and eighty-six