Evangelical Reformed Church Community
A history spanning at least 900 years
The current church was built in 1673 by master builder Abraham Dünz I on the foundations of at least three previous churches. Only an excavation by the Archaeological Service would confirm today's assumptions that the village of Langnau had its own church before the Trub monastery was founded (1125).
The medieval previous church was dedicated to Saint Martin. The veneration of this saint, who was very popular in the first millennium, indicates the age of the village and church.
Due to the massive increase in the number of Anabaptists and the rebellious rural population (Peasants' War of 1653), the government in Bern ordered the new construction and reconstruction of over thirty churches in the 17th century. It commissioned its cathedral master builder Abraham Dünz I to build a new Reformed church in Langnau.
After its construction in 1673, the church was renovated several times and often adapted to the taste of the time. Various paintings decorated the walls and ceiling, sometimes as colorful, overgrown garlands of plants, sometimes as imitation curtains, sometimes as sober, straight-lined cuboid divisions.
Text: Langnau parish
kirchenlangnau.ch/raeume/geschichte-der-kirche

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