Ecumenical Center (Ittigen)

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The ecumenical church center Ittigen

The Ecumenical Church Center Ittigen in Ittigen near Bern was built in the late 1970s and inaugurated on May 11, 1980. The rooms are shared and used by the Evangelical Reformed parish of Ittigen together with the Roman Catholic parish of Petrus and Paulus.

history

Because of the population increase in the 1960s, the Ittigen district, which at that time still belonged to Bolligen , planned a community center with a community center, a secondary school, a church, restaurant, indoor swimming pool and a village square in addition to the existing primary school. Apart from the church center, only the secondary school building and the extension of the parish hall were realized. The church district of Ittigen has always belonged to the Evangelical Reformed parish of Bolligen. Ittigen set up a parish of its own in 1909; In 1952, a parish hall with a sermon bar could be moved into on Schulweg 12. The Catholics of Ittigen and Bolligen were looked after by the Guthirt parish of Ostermundigen. In 1971 the two congregations decided to build a church center together in an ecumenical sense. The project by the architects Nauer and Scheurer, Bern, was selected and implemented from the architecture competition that was advertised throughout Switzerland and received 123 entries. After the old community of Bolligen was dissolved, in 1983 the district communities of Bolligen, Ittigen and Ostermundigen became politically independent communities. The three church districts of Bolligen became 2000 independent parishes.

reformed Church

Interior of the Reformed Church

During the renovation in 2012, the foyer and the church interior were redesigned. The direction of view from the diagonal to the organ was changed symmetrically to the east to the center. The picture with a round gold surface divided in the shape of a cross in the octagonal niche can also be viewed as a divided bread. In front of it is the wooden communion table, supplemented with a lectern , baptismal font and candlestick . Two floor-to-ceiling windows on either side represent Christmas, Good Friday, Easter and Whitsun from right to left. The glass paintings are from the German artist Andreas Felger and were installed in 2012 through donations. On the left-hand side, the gray and silver-glossy organ also stands on the two-tier pedestal that takes up the entire width of the room. A gallery offers additional visitor places to the church hall equipped with rows of chairs.

Catholic Church

Catholic Church interior

The Catholic St. Peter and Paul Church is a branch church of the Guthirt parish Ostermundigen and is looked after by its own theologian with its own secretariat. Your sphere of activity includes the municipality of Ittigen without Worblaufen, as well as the municipality of Bolligen.

The church is designed in a similar style to the neighboring Protestant church. The original diagonal line of sight to the western choir wall was retained here. The rows of chairs stand in a three-part semicircle around the two-tier altar pedestal . On the left, up one step, is the organ with a front made of light natural wood. The altar table as well as the candlesticks with baptismal font and lectern are, like in the Protestant church, made of dark-stained wooden profiles, joined together in a cross shape and supplemented with metal applications. On the side of the altar there is a slightly looking high cross and a square picture with a cross-shaped profiled frame and a blue field behind a round cutout. A counterpart of this picture is in the meditation room next to the church. A narrow corridor leads there, which is illuminated by small-format windows with stained glass. They were designed by Emil Reich with the motifs for the four ages and with symbols for Christmas ( mystery ), Good Friday ( pain ) and Easter ( completion )

Building description

The building complex with the two church rooms for Protestant and Catholic worship, which can be extended to the side rooms with sliding walls or combined to form a single room, includes several classrooms, three official apartments, a common anteroom and a free-standing bell tower . The forecourt is accessible from several sides, both from the school building square and from the access roads on the valley side.

Tower and bells

Four bells from the Rüetschi Aarau bell foundry were raised on February 23, 1980, before the official inauguration in the bell tower. They are named after the most important church festivals and labeled with biblical quotations:

  • The Christmas bell with sound: h 'has 326 kg and bears the inscription «The word became human» (Jn 1.14)
  • The Good Friday bell with sound: g sharp 'has 537 kg and the inscription "Jesus Christ bears our guilt" (I. Petr 2.24)
  • The daffodil with clay: fis'has 814 kg and the inscription: "God raised Jesus Christ the Lord" (I Cor 6, 14)
  • The Pentecost bell with sound: dis' has 1261 kg and the inscription "I will pour out my spirit on all people" (Acts 217)

Another bell is located in the roof turret of the parish hall on Schulweg. The bell, which was separated in Bolligen in 1924 and cast in 1487, found a new place here. It bears the inscription "Ave maria, gracia plena, dominus tecum" and the year MCCCCLXXXYII in Gothic minuscule at the top .

Organ of the reformed church

Organ of the ref. Ittigen Church

In 1981 the organ was built by Orgelbau Goll AG , Lucerne, with 33 registers on 3 manuals and pedal and revised in 2013. It has a mechanical action , mechanical registration and slider drawer .

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Principal 4 ′
octave 2 ′
recorder 2 ′
Largiot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sharp 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Krummhorn 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Night horn 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
III Breastwork
(swellable) C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Principal 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
octave 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
mixture 2 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
  • Coupling : III / II, I / II, III / P, II / P, I / P
  • Playing aids : alternating steps trombone and trumpet (pedal)

Catholic Church organ

Organ of the Peter and Paul Church

In 1993 the organ was built by Orgelbau Goll AG, Lucerne, with 17 stops on 2 manuals and pedal and was revised in 2015. It has a mechanical action, mechanical registration and slider drawer. A Zimbelstern was added later.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Black viola 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
third 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
mixture 2 ′
II breastwork
(swellable) C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
musette 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
octave 8th'
octave 4 ′
Trumpet 8th'

literature

  • Hans Gugger: Ittigen: a young community with an old history . Ed .: Ittigen municipality. Stämpfli, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-7272-9277-6 .
  • Gabriela Hanke u. a .: Catholic Bern from 1799 to 1999. A stopover . Total Roman Catholic parish of Bern and the surrounding area, Bern 1999.

See also

List of Roman Catholic churches in the canton of Bern

Web links

Commons : Ecumenical Church Center (Ittigen)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Gugger: Ittigen: a young community with an ancient history . Ed .: Ittigen municipality. Stämpfli AG, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-7272-9277-6 , p. 75-76 .
  2. ↑ Description on kirchenvisite.ch , accessed on September 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Hans Gugger: Ittigen: a young community with an ancient history . Ed .: Ittigen municipality. Stämpfli AG, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-7272-9277-6 , p. 75-76 .
  4. ^ Organ profile Reformierte Kirche Ittigen In: Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein , accessed on September 21, 2018, as well as recording on site on July 23, 2020.
  5. ^ Organ profile of the Catholic Church of Peter and Paul Ittigen In: Orgelverzeichnis Schweiz und Liechtenstein , accessed on September 21, 2018, as well as recording on site on July 23, 2020.

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 46.8"  E ; CH1903:  603122  /  202 783