St. Martin (Flims)
The church of St. Martin in Flims at the entrance to the Surselva is a Protestant - Reformed church . It is part of the old core of Flims-Dorf .
History and equipment
The village church is first mentioned in 831 as the property of the Pfäfers monastery . Its name goes back to the national saint of the Franks , St. Martin .
The church building shows different ages. The lower part of the tower dates back to the Romanesque era. The nave and choir are dated to 1512; they are based on older buildings. The bell chamber was built in 1704 in two stages. The filigree onion dome was installed in 1868 parallel to an interior renovation. In 2016, the belfry in the tower, which like the cemetery, unlike the church, belongs to the political community.
Two epitaphs can be seen on the choir walls inside the church . The polygonal pulpit dates from 1645 after the end of the Bündner turmoil .
In 1998 Flims hosted the Graubünden Synod for the last time with the Martinskirche .
Church organization
In the Evangelical Reformed Church in Graubünden , Flims is an independent parish of the Colloquium I Ob dem Wald .
Important pastors
Important pastors who worked in Flims for a long time were Gion Martin Darms (pastor in Flims 1863–1879), Lucius Candrian (pastor in Flims), translator of Georg Leonhardi's biography about Philipp Gallicius into Romansh and his son Christian Candrian (pastor in Flims). Lucius Candrian died in Flims during the Graubünden Synod in 1888.
gallery
View of the organ and choir
Pulpit with sound cover
Web links
- Martinskirche on the homepage of the Flims parish
- Reformed Church at www.graubuendenkultur.ch .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 46 ° 50 '15.3 " N , 9 ° 17' 4.1" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and forty thousand eight hundred / 189037