St. Peter (Samedan)
The Church of St. Peter ( Romansh actually San Peider , but also in the everyday language communication in Romanesque-site St. Peter common) in Samedan in the Upper Engadine is a Protestant - Reformed church on a hillside above the village, where once ran the old valley road. St. Peter is mainly used for funerals and, more rarely, wedding celebrations , while the Reformed Sermon Church is in the center of the village.
History and equipment
As a former main church of the Upper Engadine, St. Peter is first documented as early as 1139. In the last decade of the 15th century, the choir and nave were rebuilt in the late Gothic style and provided with a gable roof. On the north side of the building of the three-storey includes Romanesque bell tower with a much younger flat tent roof , whose high medieval buildings is dated to the 1100th
In the choir there is a late Gothic baptismal font and a stone-walled pulpit from the time after the Grisons turmoil of 1655.
The cemetery, built around the church with three terraced levels, shows a large number of epitaphs of the Samedan families.
Church organization
St. Peter belongs to the parish of Samedan and therefore belongs to the Colloquium VII Engiadin'Ota-Bregaglia-Poschiavo-Sursès within the Evangelical Reformed Church of Graubünden .
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Aerial view
Steeple
Epitaphs of important families in the cemetery
lower part of the cemetery
