Wegstock near Losisboden, Obersaxen

The Catholic Brother Klaus wayside shrine is located at “Holiacht” in “Undar Heboort”, approx. 200 m west of Lorischboden and approx. 800 m north-east of the parish church of Meierhof on the road between Affeier and Meierhof.The small wayside shrine was built before 1742 as a cross chapel. Nothing is known about the chapel's history over the following 200 years. It was renovated in 1949 by painter Alois Carigiet (1902-1988), who spent ten years of his life in Platenga. The chapel was given a shingle roof made of larch wood donated by Otto Morger. The iron lattice door of the chapel was once the cemetery door of Meierhof and was forged for the chapel by master blacksmith Georg Sax. The artist Alois Carigiet painted the small church. It was consecrated on 25 September 1949 in honor of Brother Klaus (1417-1487), farmer, councillor, judge and envoy to the Diet, who became a hermit in 1467. Brother Klaus was canonized in 1947. The chapel was given a new roof when it was renovated in 2002.The one-room chapel faces south-east. It is closed flat and opens towards the road with a large arch. The wayside chapel is covered with a transverse barrel vault, into which two lateral spandrels cut. A seven-pointed star with the IHS monogram is painted on the ceiling. Inside, the chapel is 2.25 m wide and 2.07 m deep.

Alois Carigiet, who created a remarkable series of paintings in the Meierhof rectory in 1942 during the Second World War, painted a praying Brother Klaus in a brown habit with a rosary above the altar, facing west. The radiant sun with chalice and host is depicted above his bearded head. To the left behind Brother Klaus, the Ranft chapel near Flüeli can be seen in the background. To the left of the chapel patron is an angel with golden wings, carrying a red flag and a sword, as a symbol of the citizen and judge Nicholas of Flüe. To the right of the hermit is a second angel with golden wings holding a hoe and scythe, symbolizing the farmer Nicholas. The painting is interpreted to mean that the two angels looking away from St. Brother Klaus are carrying away his previous duties so that he can become free and retire as a hermit.The floor is covered with coarse natural stone slabs. On the white plastered façade, there is a Greek cross in the gable along with the inscription “R. 1949”. The projecting gable roof is shingled.

(Recorded by: Regiun Surselva)