Tenna Reformed Church
The reformed church in Tenna in the Safiental in the Swiss canton of Graubünden was built around 1408 according to dendrochronological studies. She is known for a cycle of paintings from 1408 that is unique in Graubünden.
construction
In the original building from 1408, the nave was lengthened in 1504 and the choir was rebuilt. Another expansion to the west took place in 1733; new windows were also installed. It was restored in 1957, 1980/81 and 2000/01. A towering polygonal choir covered with a star vault is attached to the very low and long nave. The tower with twin openings and an octagonal pointed helmet is in the south.
Next to the door, a plague stone commemorates the 430 dead from the epidemic of 1594.
Paintings
During the restoration in 1957, wall paintings by an unknown painter from the time it was built were discovered. They had been whitewashed during the Reformation and were well preserved. Along with the paintings in the Reformed Church in Waltensburg , the pictures are one of the few examples of the Soft Style in the canton of Graubünden. With their folk character, they differ greatly from the recently created pictures of the church of St. Peter Mistail near Tiefencastel .
The ten pictures are arranged one above the other in two rows on the north wall and show scenes from the Passion of Jesus. They were last restored in 2000/01. At the same time the church received a new shingle roof.
The polygonal pulpit dates from 1669, the font from the time it was built. The organ is new and dates from 1975.
Frescoes
Frescoes
Church organization
Tenna stood until December 31, 2012 as an independent parish in pastoral fellowship with the other Safiental parishes and with Versam and Valendas . Since then, the villages have merged to form the Evangelical Reformed parish of Safiental . The Evangelical Reformed Regional Church of Graubünden conducts this within the Colloquium I Ob dem Wald .
literature
- Ludmilla Seifert-Uherkovich: The Church of Tenna. (Swiss Art Guide, Volume 769, Series 77). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2005, ISBN 3-85782-769-6 .
- Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008, p. 174.
- Willy Zeller: Art and culture in Graubünden. Haupt Verlag, Bern 1993, p. 94.
- Dieter Matti: Old pictures - reinterpreted, church art in the pass country. Volume 3; Desertina, Chur 2012, ISBN 978-3-85637-370-2 , pp. 27-30.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008; P. 174
Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '50.7 " N , 9 ° 20' 24.7" E ; CH1903: seven hundred forty-five thousand two hundred ninety-three / 179119