Scaletta coat
The Graubünden gown , which is traditionally worn by the Reformed pastors of the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the regional church there , is called the Scaletta coat ( Rhaeto-Romanic stgala 'stairs, step', also for a step-shaped cut of a piece of clothing) .
Quirk
As a special feature, it is open at the front. One theory says that this is due to the geographic nature of Graubünden. In this mountain canton, the clergy usually had to look after several distant preaching sites on Sundays and were therefore dependent on clothing that was easy to move about for riding, which should nevertheless be recognizable as official costume.
history
A popular explanation sees the origin of the Scaletta coat in Chur : when the Sta. Regula and St. Martin were repealed, the function of a central cemetery was taken over by the Scaletta cemetery. This was probably at the site of today's Fontana Park . The mortuary chapel there did not meet the space requirements, so that a new abdication church, the Scaletta Church , was built at the former Nikolaikloster on Kornplatz . A small staircase led from the cemetery to the church, a scaletta . The men attending the funerals wore a scaletta coat. After the church was abandoned in 1810, the Chur clergy kept the custom of the black coat and extended it to all liturgical activities, i.e. to the entire use of worship services.