Reformed Church Schöftland

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The Reformed Church Schöftland is the village church of the Aargau community of Schöftland in Switzerland .

history

Already in the early 7th century there was an own church of a local ruling dynasty in Schöftland . Excavations in 1964 uncovered three donor graves with gifts from that time. The Schöftler Church was the center of an early medieval parish that included several villages in the area. Over the centuries Kirchleerau , Kölliken (possibly), Moosleerau , Muhen , Rued and Uerkheim separated . Bottenwil , Hirschthal , Holziken and Staffelbach still belong to the parish today .

A total of five extensions followed by the 16th century. The church has served the Reformed denomination since 1528. In 1683 it was destroyed by fire; only the choir and the church tower , both built in 1506, remained. The nave was then given its current baroque shape. The last major renovation took place in 1965.

Buildings and equipment

The church stands in the center of the village and, together with the rectory and Schöftland Castle, forms a closed assembly. The nave and the retracted, three-sided closed choir are combined with a continuous gable roof . The church tower is built onto the angle between the nave and the choir on the north side. It consists of plastered tuff blocks and has a steep, diagonally positioned gable roof. While the choir has pointed arched windows, round and arched windows can be found in the nave.

Inside, the segment vault merges without interruption into the narrower choir, which is one step higher, making the room look like a hall despite two different periods of origin. The pulpit is a solid polygonal body made of white marble and rests on a Corinthian column made of black marble. A monumental baluster made of white marble leads up to the pulpit .

Two bells from the 14th and 16th centuries that have survived to this day are located in the neighboring castle and in the castle courtyard. Today's bell comes from 1932 and consists of five bells from the Aarau foundry H. Rüetschi , which are tuned in B, des, es, gb and b. In 1965 the present organ was installed. The church received its first organ as early as 1812, which was replaced a hundred years later.

literature

  • Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I: The districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948, p. 225-229 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Markus Widmer-Dean: Schöftland. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on July 8, 2011.


Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '17.4 "  N , 8 ° 3' 1.9"  E ; CH1903:  646 275  /  239507