Reformed Church Wergenstein
The Reformed Church in Wergenstein on Schamserberg in Shams in the canton of Grisons is a Grade II listed Evangelical - Reformed church .
History and equipment
The church is attested under the patronage of Calixt in late medieval times . Wergenstein accepted the Reformation before 1538. This year the church was expanded and designed as a Reformed preaching church .
The tower on the valley side is covered by a tent roof and has a one-story bell house. In front of the choir , which is adorned by a ribbed vault , the raised pulpit without sound covers corresponds on the left and the organ on the right , while in the middle of the choir there is a baptismal table on which the Lord's Supper is also celebrated.
Church organization
Casti-Wergenstein form a pastoral community with Zillis and the other villages on the Schamserberg and belong to the Colloquium II Schams-Avers-Rheinwald-Moesa within the Protestant-Reformed regional church of Graubünden .
gallery
inner space
View from the choir into the nave
organ
Wall painting
Wall painting
biblical wall saying in Sutsilvan
Another Sutselvian wall saying
Web links
- Reformed Church on graubuendenkultur.ch
- Reformed Church Wergenstein on the homepage of the marketing organization graubuenden.ch with photos of the exterior and interior
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 '35.7 " N , 9 ° 24' 29.5" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred twenty-five / 165819