St. Cassian (Lantsch / Lenz)
St. Cassian is a group of houses on the road from Lantsch to Lenzerheide in the municipality of Lantsch / Lenz in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It consists of a farmhouse and the St. Cassian chapel .
St. Cassian is located on a small pass on the Chur - Tiefencastel route , an important connection between southern Germany and Italy over the Julier and Septimer passes as early as Roman times .
history
Excavations in 1962 showed that on the other side of the street - marked by a cross and stone slabs - there were two early medieval small apse churches. They go back to the 6th century and existed together with a densely occupied burial ground until the 12th century. It is not known why the facility was abandoned. The remains of the wall found were filled in again.
chapel
The first Cassian's chapel is mentioned for the first time in 1405 as Sanct Caschianan Gut ; together with goods that were used to maintain the hospice . On October 25, 1513, after late Gothic renovations, it was re-consecrated by Vicar General Stephanus. At that time the door was covered with tuff walls and the choir and nave were vaulted. The first major restoration, in which the large windows were broken in, took place in 1855. Further restorations were carried out in 1899 and 1960-62.
The chapel is a simple nave with a retracted rectangular choir facing northeast. At the transition from the gable roof to the choir is an open roof turret with a bell cage. The interior is covered by an ogival cross vault. The choir with its asymmetrical reticulated vault is separated from the nave by a choir arch.
The altar panel instead of an altar dates from the second half of the 17th century and shows the Madonna with Saints Stephen and Cassian. The two side paintings from 1736 show Cassian and Antonius Abbas again . The Renaissance - Epitaph was in 1798, the terracotta sculpture was created by James Cook 1,961th The six panel paintings from the 18th century in the nave show representations of the apostles; Erwin Poeschel describes them as “irrelevant”. Instead of seating, beam seats from 1645 are attached. Together with the altar sheet, they form the oldest pieces of equipment in the chapel.
The bell dates from 1813 and was cast by Jakob Grasmair from Feldkirch .
Altar sheet
Apostles Simon, Thaddäus and Matthias
St. Cassian
Holy Family
court
The farm on the other side of the street was first mentioned in 1540, when the municipality leased it to a couple at Lantsch for 60 years. The building no longer stands today, the current structure dates from around 1800.
Since the Maiensäss region between Lenzerheide and Lantsch was uninhabited in winter, it often happened that during the two-hour hike from Lantsch to Parpan over the Lenzerheide, “travelers were blown by snow flurries and miserably perished”. In order to increase the safety of travelers, the community tried repeatedly since the 16th century to occupy the farm all year round. In bad weather, the tenants had to ring the bell and it was best to do so, so that no one had to stay on the Hayd .
literature
- Peda art guide: The churches of Lantsch / Lenz ; Ed. Catholic Parish Office Lantsch; 1997
- Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden : Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008, p. 140
- Erwin Poeschel : Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume II, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1937, p. 369
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Coordinates: 46 ° 41 '44.8 " N , 9 ° 33' 32.1" E ; CH1903: seven hundred sixty-two thousand one hundred and fifty-six / 173,810