Side trip to the church of St. James in Lommis and to Sonnenberg Castle
The ground plan of the church of St. James in Lommis indicates a modest Romanesque church, the masonry of which still exists in the northern church wall. In the Gothic period, the nave was widened, creating the still existing southern wall of the nave. The church received its present form around 1500 from the noblemen of Spiegelberg.
St James in Lommis
Almost simultaneously with the construction of the Fischinger St. Idda Chapel, the old ossuary chapel dedicated to St. Michael was converted into a charming Idda sanctuary in 1701, thus creating an additional way station to this Toggenburg saint.
The legend, the oldest surviving versions of which date back to the hermit Benedictine P. Albrecht von Bonstetten in 1481/85, tells of Saint Idda.
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