Pilgrimage Chapel St. Maria (Vals)
The pilgrimage chapel St. Maria is in the district of Camp in Vals in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . It was built in 1692 on the spot where an avalanche buried an eight-person farmhouse.
Building description
The complex consists of a two-bay nave with a flat closed choir and a side chapel to the west, which is consecrated to St. Rochus . The height of the side chapel is approximately the same as the nave. This is covered with a barrel vault, the choir and side chapel with a cross vault . The sacristy, which is a few steps lower, is to the east of the choir. Above the side chapel rises the tower with an octagonal upper floor and an onion dome.
Furnishing
The two altars with winding columns made of stucco marble date from around 1692. In the gable hangs a copy of the miraculous image of the Madonna von Pötsch , which is kept in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . The picture was brought to Vals around 1695 by Johann Berni, then a theology student in Vienna. Berni was a chaplain in Vals from 1701 to 1735. His grave slab is on the north wall of the nave.
The numerous votive tablets from the 18th century come from the Truns painter Jakob Soliva and the Briger Antoni Sigristen , among others . The protruding gallery with a protruding middle section shows three pilgrimage pictures from Tersnaus (1710), Cumbel (1716) and Peiden (1717). The three-register parapet organ by an unknown master dates from 1766.
gallery
entrance
Choir and altar
Gallery and organ
Votive picture
Procession in Tersnaus , 1710
literature
- Erwin Poeschel: Art monuments of the canton of Graubünden. Volume IV, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1942, p. 232.
- Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008; P. 200.
Web links
Pilgrimage chapel of the Virgin Mary in pain at www.graubuendenkultur.ch .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information brochure in the church
- ↑ Restored in 1976 by Mathis Orgelbau , see catalog raisonné on his website, accessed on November 9, 2013.