St. George's Chapel (Obersaxen)
The St. Georg chapel is located in Obersaxen in the Swiss canton of Graubünden , around two hundred meters northeast of the parish church of Meierhof on a small hill called Schneggenbühl at 1300 meters above sea level.
construction
The chapel is oriented from north to south. It is around 7 meters long and 5.5 meters wide. Presumably it was built at the beginning of the 17th century. It is documented that in 1651 it received a Gothic winged altar from the parish church. In 1651 the interior was painted; In 1930, according to Erwin Poeschel , fragments of it were still visible. During the last major renovation in 1990/91 none of this was left; so they must have been painted over in the meantime. The interior is spanned by a hipped wooden ceiling with profile strips from the 17th century.
On the gable roof, which is covered with wooden shingles, sits an elaborately designed roof turret with a curved helmet. The two bells originally date from 1657, but were cast in 1949 and 1957 by the Rüetschi bell foundry in Aarau because they were damaged.
altar
The late Gothic winged altar from around 1473 comes from the workshop of Ivo Strigel from Memmingen . The shrine figures come from Strigel himself, the paintings on the wing are attributed to his son Bernhard (1460? - 1528).
The shrine (121 × 98 × 24 cm) is made of fir wood and is decorated with a tracery with round arches. In the shrine itself there are three statuettes: in the middle Mary with baby Jesus, at her feet a golden crescent moon with a silver face. This crescent moon can also be found in the Strigel altars in Disentis and Brigels (San Sievi Chapel), which were built around 1489 and 1486 respectively . The way in which Mary is depicted also corresponds to the figures of Mary in the altars mentioned. St. Catherine of Alexandria stands on Mary's right, Mary Magdalene on her left .
The left wing, seen from the front, shows Saint Barbara of Nicomedia , the back the Evangelist John . On the right wing, St. Margaret of Antioch is depicted in the front, and John the Baptist on the back . All representations show signs of revisions and retouches from the period after 1930.
outside left: Evangelist Johannes
left: Barbara from Nikomedia
right: Margaret of Antioch
outside right: John the Baptist
literature
- Jutta Betz: Churches and chapels in the parishes of Obersaxen, Surcuolm and Flond ; Art Publishing House Peda , Passau 2006.
- Hans Batz: The churches and chapels of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume III, Chur 2003.
- Erwin Poeschel, KDKG , Volume IV; Basel 1942.
Web links
St. Georg Chapel at www.graubuendenkultur.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Pro Supersaxa; Yearbook 1988.
- ^ Jutta Betz: Churches and chapels in the parishes of Obersaxen, Surcuolm and Flond ; Art Publishing House Peda, Passau 2006.
Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '58.5 " N , 9 ° 6' 6.8" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and twenty-seven thousand and eighty-two / 178946