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Sogn Gieri Church - Rhäzüns
Cultural site nr. 002
Daily from 8.00 am to 7.00 pm
On request/by reservation
Tel. +41 (0)81 6411065
Gemeindeverwaltung Rhäzüns
CH-7403 Rhäzüns
Tel. +41 (0)81 6502222
gde.kanzlei@rhaezuens.ch
www.rhaezuens.ch
www.kirchgemeinde-rhaezuens.ch
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The Church of St George (Romansh: Sogn Gieri), dating back to the High Middle Ages. It is decorated throughout with Gothic frescoes by the Waltensburger and Rhäzüns masters. The visitor experiences the Middle Ages here in the truest sense of the word. The depictions on the choir and nave walls of the Romanesque church are a “biblia paupera”. The pictures recount events from the Old and, above all, from the New Testament. The Waltensburger frescoes testify to a courtly culture, which is also documented by the knightly epics and “Minnesang”. Representations of torture in the legend of St George stand in contrast to elegant saints and courageous knights. There is no other interior throughout the Canton of Graubünden whose walls tell us so much about what was important in the Middle Ages. The archaic benches, without armrests, are unique artefacts in the inventory of Graubünden’s cultural wealth and make the journey back to the Middle Ages into an experience which touches more than just our visual senses.
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