St. Martin (Ufnau)

The Chapel of St. Martin , also known as Reginlinde Chapel , is a Romanesque sacred building on the island of Ufnau in Lake Zurich .

construction

In place of the first, larger church, which probably came from the 7th century, and on the foundation walls of the chapel donated by Reginlinde around 950 , the tower-free building was built on a hill in 1141. It is a Romanesque complex. It has raised arched windows on the side fronts, while a late Gothic tracery window was later fitted to the front of the drawn-in rectangular choir. The hermit Abbot Berthold (1206-1213) renewed the portal on which his name is written. Archaeological excavations were carried out in 1962 and the church was restored from 2007 to 2009.

The original church of St. Martin was the center of a large parish that stretched from Altendorf to Wädenswil and from Feldbach and Hombrechtikon to Erlenbach , but which had its administrative seat on the mainland in Pfäffikon ( Phaffinchova = court of the priest). Presumably with the construction of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in the middle of the 10th century, the function of the parish church was transferred to it.

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Interior

The interior of St. Martin is decorated with wall paintings from different periods. Fragments from the 14th century have been preserved in the choir, while bust portraits of the clever and foolish virgins from the second quarter of the 16th century are visible on the choir arch. The Romanesque holy water font is walled in. Since the restoration in 2009, the empty baroque sarcophagus of St. Adalrich has been in the back of the nave, after it had previously been in the former parish church of St. Peter and Paul .

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literature

• Fredy Kümin, Markus Bamert, Peter Ziegler, Valentin Kessle: The sacred buildings on the island of Ufnau . (Swiss Art Guide, No. 856, Series 86). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-85782-856-0 .
• Peter Ziegler: Frescoes in the churches on the island of Ufnau and in the tower choir of the parish church in Freienbach . Freienbach: Bruhin, 1975.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Ufenau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Restoration 2007 (website of the architecture office)
• History, historical pictures

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Ziegler: History of the island of Ufnau

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '3.82 "  N , 8 ° 46' 39.91"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and one thousand four hundred thirty-one  /  230509