Reformed Church wages GR
The Reformed Church in wages in Shams in the canton of Grisons is a Grade II listed Evangelical - Reformed church .
History and equipment
The late Gothic building under the patronage of Mary dates back to the pre-Reformation period from 1460 to 1500, when it replaced a Romanesque predecessor church with a round apse , documented in 1954 .
The Lohner Church was renovated in 1719, 1832 and the last time in 1953–54. The church in Lohn is unique because of its two stylistically incompatible towers : a bell tower with bells from the 14th and 15th centuries stands on the south side of the facade next to a smaller tower on the choir .
In the flat-roofed nave there is a wall tabernacle and a baptismal font in the shape of a hemisphere, which was completely restored during the last renovation . The pulpit dates from 1837. The organ is more recent and was installed in 1994.
Wall paintings by the Waltensburg master came to light in 1953/54 as part of research work, but were completely covered up again , partly out of carelessness, partly out of reformed skepticism towards pictures in churches ( ban on pictures ), so that today there is no longer anything to indicate their existence.
Church organization
Lohn is in a pastoral community with Zillis and the other villages on the Schamserberg and is part of the Colloquium II Schams-Avers-Rheinwald-Moesa in the Evangelical Reformed Church of Graubünden .
gallery
The reformed church in an exposed location on Schamserberg
The two towers
View from the village
biblical mural in Sutsilvan in the choir, the Jesus word "I am the light of the world"
Graveyard; Facing south
Mention of the first two pastors of the Lohn GR parish after they became independent
literature
- Erwin Poeschel : Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden, Volume V, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1943. P. 208
- Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008; P. 124
