San Gian (Celerina)
The church of San Gian ( Rhaeto-Romanic in the dialect Puter for Saint John ) on a hill east of Celerina is a Protestant - Reformed church , which is a landmark of the whole region and also adorns the logo of the parish association Il Binsaun .
History and equipment
The current church building from 1478 is based on a late medieval Romanesque predecessor church, the structure of which can still be found in the smaller of the two towers in the north of the facade. The striking late Gothic tower was badly damaged by a lightning strike in 1682. It was never completely renewed, but left in this monument-like roofless condition first for financial reasons, then for fundamental reasons. After the turmoil in Graubünden , San Gian was no longer used as a preaching church , but as a burial church, the last time it was restored from 1973 to 1980.
The nave is exceptionally long with a fairly flat ceiling and merges into a square choir . In this one can find northern Italian wall paintings from the pre-Reformation period around 1480–1490 with motifs a. a. on the life and death of John the Baptist and on the baptism of Jesus Christ.
Church organization
San Gian belongs within the Evangelical Reformed regional church of Graubünden with the two other Reformed Celerin churches Crasta and Bel Taimpel to the Colloquium VII Engiadin'Ota-Bregaglia-Poschiavo-Sursès .
graveyard
Among other things, they were buried in the cemetery of the San Gian Church
- the lawyer and linguist Zaccaria Pallioppi (1820–1873)
- the Grisons Grand Councilor and Councilor of States Anton Philipp Ganzoni (also: Anton Filip Ganzoni, 1800–1881)
- the Swiss draftsman, sgraffito artist and sculptor Giuliano Pedretti (1924–2012)
gallery
the two towers
Ascent to the church
graveyard
Falcon at the tower,
with mouse
View from the northwest
View from the north
Cemetery in winter
literature
- Dieter Matti: Old pictures - reinterpreted. Church art in the pass country. Volume 2. Desertina, Chur 2010, ISBN 978-3-85637-369-6 , pp. 31-34.
- Oskar Emmenegger, Rita Muggli: Church of San Gian near Celerina / Schlarigna. ( Swiss Art Guide , No. 323). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 1993, ISBN 978-3-85782-323-7 .
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Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '47.7 " N , 9 ° 52' 11.5" E ; CH1903: seven hundred eighty-six thousand five hundred fifty-eight / 154218