St. Niklausen OW

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OW is the abbreviation for the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name St. Niklausen .
Chapel of St. Niklausen (14th century)
Chapel (interior view)

The place St. Niklausen is part of the political municipality Kerns in the canton Obwalden and has 320 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012).

location

St. Niklausen lies a little above Kerns at 800  m above sea level. M. at the entrance of the great Melchtal . From the place you have a good panoramic view of the Sarnersee and the Obwalden mountains. The Jakobsweg and the Bruder-Klausen-Weg lead through the village. There is a hiking trail into the directly adjacent Ranft Gorge , into which Saint Niklaus von Flüe had retired. The Melchtalerstrasse leads from Kerns through St. Niklausen and further into the Melchtal to Stöckalp, from where Melchsee-Frutt can be reached by gondola lift and in summer via a single-lane road .

Facilities

The chapel of St. Niklausen is located a little higher on the outskirts. It is a branch church of the Kerns parish and was first mentioned in 1357. The free-standing bell tower in Savoyard style with a pyramid roof is visible from afar and, like the choir, dates from the construction period around 1350. The chapel was initially only used as a choir room with outdoor benches and was only supplemented with a nave before the end of the 14th century. The choir is decorated with a medieval fresco cycle from 1370, the hip ceilings are decorated with rural Baroque paintings from 1704. The chapel was restored in 1995.

In St. Niklausen is the Bethanien Monastery , a Dominican monastery . They run the Bethanien Guesthouse , where seminars and conferences are offered.

The village school near the church was closed in the summer of 2010 after some resistance in 2008.

Attractions

economy

In addition to farms, the village has a sawmill, a cheese dairy and a restaurant with 13 Gault Millau points.

Personalities

  • Franz Abart (1769–1863), a sculptor from South Tyrol, lived and worked in St. Niklausen

literature

  • Robert Durrer: The St. Niklausen Chapel near Kerns and its medieval wall paintings . In: Geschichtsfreund 52 (1897), pp. 307-356. doi : 10.5169 / seals-115275
  • Eduard Müller: The Chapel of St. Niklausen near Kerns , Society for Swiss Art History, 1996, ISBN 3-85782-588-X
  • Peter Wagner: St. Niklausen Chapel (PDF) , Cultural History Documentation, October 2008

Web links

Commons : Kerns - Chapel of St. Nicholas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics as of December 31, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the municipality of Kerns, accessed on August 20, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kerns.ch  
  2. ↑ St. Nikolaus Chapel in St. Niklausen Website of the architects Felix Schmid Partner with details on the restoration in 1995
  3. ^ Website of the Bethanien Monastery
  4. ^ Website of the Bethanien guest house
  5. ↑ St. Niklausen: Will the school stay in the village? Article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from December 11, 2008
  6. ↑ The St. Niklausen School can continue to exist Article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung dated December 12, 2008
  7. ↑ The St. Niklausen School is now a history article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung of July 2, 2010
  8. ↑ Linde stays ahead, Hergiswil gets Star , Gault Millau restaurant guide crowns the best kitchens ( memento from March 18, 2012 on WebCite ), article in the ONZ Obwalden and Nidwalden newspaper from October 7, 2010. Archived from the original online version on October 18, 2012 . March 2012.

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '33 "  N , 8 ° 16' 50.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred ninety-four  /  191980