Old Church Altstetten (Zurich)
The Altstetten Old Church is an Evangelical Reformed church in the city of Zurich . It is in the center of the quarter of the same name at Pfarrhausstrasse 19 . The New Altstetten Church was built next to it from 1939 .
history
The old church Altstetten was a pilgrimage chapel of Our Lady in the Middle Ages , which was a branch chapel of St. Peter (Zurich) . This chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1266. The church patronage of this chapel, together with the mother parish of St. Peter, came to the mayor Rudolf Brun in 1345 , and after his death in 1360 to the hospital in Zurich. The chapel had had its own chaplain since 1418 and was a popular place of pilgrimage to which the city of Zurich held five processions a year and to which Birmenstorf AG made a pilgrimage on the day after Ascension Day . In 1517, at the request of the priest at the Grossmünster , Erhard Blattmann, Zwingli's predecessor , Cardinal Matthäus Schiner issued a letter of indulgence for participants in the pilgrimages and in the memorial of the benefactors in the chapel in Altstetten.
Archaeological research shows that the old church in Altstetten goes back to an early Romanesque church from the 11th century. As their successor, today's church was built around 1303 as a village and pilgrimage church. In 1418 the nave and sacristy were rebuilt and in 1485 the star vault was built into the choir . In 1761 and 1842 the nave was rebuilt and extended. This extension was dismantled in the years 1938–1941. In 1941 the church cemetery was closed. During the renovation in 1974–1975, a parish room was built into the tower staircase .
Building description
Together with the New Church Altstetten, the Old Church, together with the parish and rectory, form an ensemble in the middle of the district center not far from Lindenplatz . The old cemetery wall can be seen in the north and east of the church. The old church Altstetten is a hall church with a choir tower . The choir is less wide and less high than the nave. Apart from the star vault in the choir, nothing has been preserved from the medieval furnishings of the church. The font and the glass windows date from the years 1885–1888. On the north side of the old Reformed church is a bronze plaque with the following text: In the years 1938–1941, in the middle of the hard war, this church was completely renovated and a new one was built next to it. The excavations revealed the remains of a Roman villa rustica and the foundation walls of two Romanesque churches from the 11th and 13th centuries. Time goes by, the word of God remains in eternity. On November 30, 1941. The church maintenance.
organ
In 1918 a pneumatic membrane shutter organ was installed in the church by Carl Theodor Kuhn, Männedorf. It was an instrument with twelve registers on two manuals and a pedal . This organ was replaced in 1958 by today's organ, an instrument from Metzler Orgelbau , Dietikon with 13 registers on two manuals and a pedal. In 1971 this organ was revised by Orgelbau Metzler AG, Dietikon.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
The old church Altstetten has a polyphonic bell of different ages. The Elfuhrglocke bears the inscription: O rex glorie christe nobis cum pace - anno Domini MCCCCIC and four small reliefs : Mary holding the infant Jesus , Christ with the orb and the SS. Felix and Regula . The prayer time bell was re-cast or recast in 1793. Their inscription reads: Johannes Fuesslin poured me in Zurich in 1793. Furthermore: In the morning early and late in the evening / I was all taken to prayer. / For God's service and church singing / I call through my sound. / The danger of fire is just as good / One should help than hurry. The two small bells were cast around in 1831. They bear the year 1831, as well as symbols of rural life.
See also
literature
- Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Felix Marbach: Zurich-Altstetten , in: Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Ed.): Schematismus des Diocese Chur. , P. 272
- ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, pp. 118–120.
- ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, pp. 118–120.
- ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein, section Ref. Church, Old Church Zurich-Altstetten. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
- ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, p. 120.
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '12.1 " N , 8 ° 29' 6.2" E ; CH1903: 679 011 / 248955