Reformed Church Sagogn
The Reformed Church in Sagogn in Gruob is an Evangelical - Reformed church under the monument of the canton of Grisons . The church forms a compositional unit with the surrounding cemetery and the adjacent rectory.
history
prehistory
At the beginning of the 18th century there was a Reformed minority of about a third of the population in Sagogn. The Catholic priest Caspar Jagmet from Disentis had been in office in Sagogn since 1695 and worked in the spirit of the Counter Reformation . He ensured that in 1701 at the parish assembly a resolution was passed that was impossible for the Reformed to accept, which went down in history as part of the sagas trade : there was now a ban on allowing Protestant clergy to come into the parish, as well as a ban, a to build his own church and a ban on calling the Ilanzer judicial community or the Drei Bünde on legal issues. A first all-Graubünden delegation, which was supposed to mediate between the positions, was unsuccessful, so that a civil war threatened to break out. Troops were already being drawn together on both sides. In September 1701, a peace agreement was finally reached: the Reformed in Sagogn were officially granted freedom of religion and the right to build their own house of worship. But it was not until nine years later, on the last Sunday in December of 1710, that a special charitable foundation was established.
construction
The construction preparations were made by Jakob Casutt, who donated the entire area to the church members free of charge, and Ludwig Castell. The building was built in 1743 by Jakob Krättli, which ended long disputes in the denominationally divided village into a Roman Catholic majority and a Reformed minority. In the 20th century, the church was renovated in 1933, 1957 and 1999.
Architecture and equipment
The church tower with onion dome in the Baroque style connects to the north facade and carries four bells in the bell house.
In the interior, designed as a hall church , the gallery with an artistic parapet, which is attached above the central, hexagonal baptismal font , stands out. The strikingly deep, polygonal pulpit stands on the left at the edge of the suggested choir . The choir faces exactly north. The gravestones in the cemetery, however, are all rusted .
inscription
"O Segner, ti eis nies refugi da schlatta tier schlatta ( Sursilvan for:" O Lord, you are our refuge for and for ")"
Church organization
The Evangelical Reformed Regional Church of Graubünden runs Sagogn, whose pastoral office also looks after the diaspora in Laax and Falera , which has grown strongly due to tourism and the construction of second homes , and was also responsible for the traditionally reformed village of Duvin in the Val Lumnezia , within the colloquium I Ob dem Wald .
In the 20th century also one existed since 1906 Pastorationsgemeinschaft Sagogns by on the other side of the Vorderrheins located Valendas , where the priest resided. This was dissolved in 1994.
Pastors since 1943
Important pastors who worked in Sagogn for a long time were Gion Martin Darms (pastor in Ilanz-Sagogn 1879–1907), Emil Camenisch (pastor in Valendas-Sagogn 1912–1943) and Jacob Michael (pastor in Valendas-Sagogn 1948–1959).
Pastoral community Valendas - Sagogn
- Benedetg Dolf 1943–1948
- Jacob Michael 1948-1959
- Hermann Peter Rade 1959–1966
- U. Gublar (provisional) 1966
- Christian Kober 1966–1971
- Jos Pinggera (provisional) 1971–1972
- Jürg Zinsli 1972–1974
- Manfred Weiss (provisional) 1975
- Jos Pinggera (provisional) 1976
- René Bachofen 1976–1987
- Peter Cabalzar (provisional) 1987–1988
- Donald R. Hasler 1989-1994
Parish Sagogn / Laax / Falera
- Barbara Brunner 1995-2002
- Tabitha Walther (provisional) 2003
- Ivana Fucik-Michoin 2003-2007
- Thorsten Minuth 2007–2011
- Bigna Hess 2012-2013
- David Last 2014-2017
- Daniel Hanselmann 2018– (elected by the parish assembly on September 25, 2017)
literature
- 300 onns Pleiv reformada Sagogn. 300 years of reformed parish Sagogn 1710–2010, ed. from the Plaiv reformada Sagogn (= Reformed parish Sagogn) Glion / Ilanz 2010
