Description of the attraction
Bergkirchli is the oldest church in the Bünder resort in Arosa and at the same time its oldest surviving building. It is located between the Shangfig Ethnographic Museum and the Tschuggen Hotel in the immediate vicinity of the Karmenna chairlift station, which has a lift height of 1900 meters.
The church was completed in 1493 and served as a parish church after the Reformation in Arosa from 1530 to the Protestant church community. Initially, there was only a chapel, to which the church building itself was already attached. Today it hosts a variety of short organ concerts (about 45 minutes long) during the summer and winter seasons. As a religious site, the church is used for funerals and wedding ceremonies, and in addition, it hosts divine services on great holidays. Sunday services have been held since 1909, mainly in the village church. The Bergkirchli community takes an active part in the life of the needy parishioners and is ready to provide them with accommodation.
In 1762, a church organ was installed in the chapel. In 1974 and 1997, two restorations of the temple were carried out.
A 1:25 scale model of the Bergkirchli Church stands at the Miniature Switzerland Park in Melida (exhibition number 12). There is another Evangelical church in Lenzerheide (also within the canton), sometimes called Bergkirchli.
