This stained glass window in St. Martin
of Buochs commemorates the French invasion of 1789.
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St. Martin of Buochs was rebuilt in the
1810s. It is a good sized church, bright and airy inside, with
quite a bit of marble in the old altar and the lecturn, and lots
of gold leaf, too...something that leads me to believe that Buochs
always was (and still is) affluent. There are paintings above
all the altars and shrines by what appears to be the same artist,
so I'm wondering if they salvaged Wyrsch's paintings from the
flames and reinstalled them.
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A word about the cemetery: traditionally,
the Swiss, like most Europeans, "recycle" gravesites
after 50 years or so (usually they stay in the same family, though),
so I was hard-pressed to find any 19th c. headstones. But the
whole churchyard cemetery was beautifully landscaped with shrubs,
flowers, pavers, and some of the most ornate and artistic headstones
we've ever scene, each one a work of art, which makes us think
this area must have been an artists colony, too. Mo was so focused
on her genealogic find that she only took photos of the gravestone
inscriptions, and none of the beautiful grounds.
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