Sharan's Reformed Church

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The Reformed Church in Scharans in the canton of Grisons is a Grade II listed Evangelical - Reformed church .

History and equipment

Today's church is a new building by the Carinthian master builder Andreas Bühler from the pre-Reformation period from 1489 to 1490. The church tower with exposed masonry shows a Romanesque style and was last restored in 1986. Inside the church, in the choir , which is spanned by a reticulated vault, there is a peculiar, also Romanesque font , composed of two hemispheres. The pulpit with the sound cover goes back to the 17th century. The organ was built in 1981 by Orgelbau Kuhn AG .

In the early years of the Bündner turmoil from 1618 to 1620, the Scharans church was the sermon church of Jörg Jenatsch .

Church organization

Within the Evangelical Reformed Regional Church of Graubünden , Scharans, who is in a pastoral community with Fürstenau , belongs to the Colloquium III Nid dem Wald .

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Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reformed Church
  2. Description on the website of Orgelbau Kuhn AG, accessed on August 12, 2012.

Coordinates: 46 ° 43 ′ 5 "  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 34"  E ; CH1903:  754 486  /  176,084