Reformed Church of Rorbas
The Reformed Church of Rorbas is a church building in the municipality of Rorbas , Switzerland .
Building history
A chapel dedicated to John the Baptist already existed in Rorbas in the 12th century . Today's church was built in the late Gothic style in 1585/1586 as one of the first post-Reformation church buildings in today's Switzerland. In 1685/1686, the nave was rebuilt and extended to the south. During the renovation in 1950, a new wooden ceiling was put in and the gallery renewed.
The church is an example of the early sacral architecture after the Reformation, which has not yet developed its own Protestant forms, but is still caught in the scheme of medieval church building.
description
The church is designed as a hall church with a massive choir tower . The brickwork is traced on the corner frames. The tower with its Käsbissen roof has Gothic tracery windows, while the nave has arched windows. In the tower there is a clockwork and three bells from the 19th century.
Noteworthy in the interior of the baroque wooden pulpit of 1677, and unusually applied, elongated Empore with lateral Kuhn - organ (1951). The neo-Gothic glass paintings from 1882 come from the Zurich company Wehrli. In the choir they show Moses and the tablets of the Law as symbols of the Old Testament and Jesus Christ and the chalice as symbols of the New Testament.
Immediately next to the church is the early Classicist rectory by David Vogel from 1776.
gallery
View from the west
View from the east
Interior with choir
Colored glass window in the choir
Belfry
literature
- Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 1. Bern 2005, p. 929.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description on the website of the builder company, accessed on April 29, 2014.
- ↑ Disposition in organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein , private website, accessed on April 29, 2014.