Brother Klaus (Urdorf)
The Church of St. Brother Klaus is the Roman Catholic parish church of Urdorf in the Swiss district of Dietikon ( Canton of Zurich ).
history
History and naming
Until 1930, today's Urdorf consisted of two communities: Niederurdorf , which belonged to Dietikon in the Middle Ages , and Oberurdorf , in which Pope Lucius III. from the year 1184 a chapel of St. Nicholas is mentioned as a property of the Engelberg monastery . In Oberurdorf there was also a Meierhof of the St. Blasien Monastery and a property of the Muri Monastery mentioned in 1140 . In the subsequent Reppischtal there was also a chapel of St. George until the Reformation , which in 1173 in a document of the antipope Callixtus III. was first mentioned.
As a result of the Reformation in Zurich , Urdorf converted to the new faith in 1529. In contrast to Dietikon, the mother parish, Urdorf remained with the new faith even after the Battle of Kappel in 1531, since the reformed Zurich had the lower jurisdiction in Urdorf. The St. Nikolaus Chapel was subsequently empty. The altars had been removed and the frescoes painted over. Around 1600 the chapel was divided into two floors for school rooms by an intermediate floor. Soon after, the chapel was used for Reformed services. In the period that followed, it became today's old Reformed Church of Urdorf.
The fact that the medieval church in Urdorf was consecrated to St. Nicholas of Myra is related to the Crusades . At the grave of St. Nicholas in Bari, the crusaders pleaded for a happy crossing. St. Nicholas is one of the fourteen helpers in need and applies among other things. a. as the patron saint of seafarers and travelers. Since Urdorf is located on a small river and an old trade route, the chapel was dedicated to St. Nicholas as the patron saint. After the Second World War , St. Brother Klaus von Flüe was considered the great saint of peace, which is why the Catholic community decided when the Catholic parish of Urdorf was re-established to elect St. Nicholas of Flüe as the first church patron. Since this got its name after St. Nicholas of Myra, the patronage of the medieval church of Urdorf is indirectly included.
Catholic services were banned in the canton of Zurich until the beginning of the 19th century . The Edict of Tolerance of the Zurich Government Council of September 10, 1807 allowed a Catholic community in Zurich for the first time. The so-called First Zurich Church Law in 1863 recognized the Catholic parishes in Zurich as well as in Winterthur , Dietikon and Rheinau (the last two were traditionally Catholic places). On the basis of association law, Catholic branches could then be established throughout the canton. With the help of support associations such as the "Piusverein" (founded in 1857) and the Catholic Society for Domestic Mission (founded in 1863), further pastoral care stations and later parishes in the canton of Zurich were established in quick succession in the 1860s: Männedorf (1864), Gattikon- Thalwil / Langnau (1864), Horgen (1865), Pilgersteg-Rüti / Wald (1866), Wald and Bubikon (1873), Uster (1876), Langnau (1877), Rüti (1878), Wädenswil (1881), Bülach ( 1882), Wetzikon (1890), Bauma (1894), Adliswil (1894), Pfungen (1895), Dübendorf (1897) and Küsnacht (1901). So it happened that by 1900 there were already 20 Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Development and construction history
Today's parish of St. Brother Klaus is a daughter parish of St. Agatha Dietikon . At the beginning of the 20th century, Urdorf initially belonged to other parishes: from August 1900, the newly founded Heilig Kreuz parish in Zurich-Altstetten was also responsible for the Catholics in Oberdorf and Niederurdorf . The people of Urdorf received the Josefs altar as a gift from this church, which was used in Urdorf from 1953 to 1964. From 1923 onwards, Urdorf's Catholics were looked after by the newly established parish of St. Josef Schlieren .
The Bishop of Chur , Christian Caminada then separated Urdorf from St. Josef Schlieren on January 1, 1956 and assigned it to the parish of St. Agatha Dietikon. As a result, Urdorf was once again part of the Dietikon parish, just like in the Middle Ages. In 1953, an emergency chapel was set up in the factory basement of Hermann Fischer-Frey's metal spinning shop at Schönheimstrasse 2 in Urdorf . The first Holy Mass in Urdorf since the Reformation took place in this chapel on Easter Sunday 1953. As the population of Urdorf increased from the 1950s, more Catholics also moved there. Therefore Urdorf was raised to an independent parish on October 10, 1960 and separated from St. Agatha Dietikon. In October 1960 a second, more appropriate chapel was set up: until the inauguration of the Brother Klaus church in 1964, the services took place in the old schoolhouse on Uitikonerstrasse in a classroom on the first floor.
The Schlieren Parish Church Foundation had already bought a piece of land on Schönheim / Baurenackerstrasse in Urdorf to build the Brother Klaus church . This property was transferred to the Urdorf Brother Klausen Foundation on June 13, 1956. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on August 19, 1962, and the foundation stone was blessed by Vicar General Alfred Teobaldi on June 23, 1963 . Already on August 31, 1963 the new rectory could be moved into, in the basement of which a small chapel was installed until the church was completed. According to the plans of the architects Hansjörg and Otto Sperisen ( Solothurn ) - the latter built the Brother Klaus church dedicated to the same patron in the Thurgau town of Eschlikon at the same time - the Brother Klaus church in Urdorf was built and inaugurated on August 30, 1964. Relics of St. Brother Klaus, St. Maria Goretti and a catacomb saint Felix were placed in the altar .
In 1991 the church was renovated for the first time, with the artist Eva Pauli putting up wall paintings in the church and in the baptistery. In the years 2012–2013, the church was again extensively renovated, both outside and inside, which was completed on December 13, 2013 with the consecration of the Marienkapelle by the Chur bishop Vitus Huonder . A relic of St. Sr. Bernarda Bütler was used here. In the years 2015-2016 the rectory was rebuilt and an extension for the secretariat was added. This takes up an idea of the architects of the church and the rectory from the 1960s: Hansjörg and Otto Sperisen had already planned a corresponding extension to the rectory as an option when the center was being built. This construction phase was completed with the blessing of the five tondi by the artist Flavia Travaglini on February 5, 2017.
The parish of Brother Klaus Urdorf, with its 3,258 members (as of 2017), is one of the medium-sized Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Building description
Church tower and exterior
The Brother Klaus church is located between the streets Im Baurenacker and Schönheimstrasse on sloping terrain. Stairs lead through the area between the church and the rectory and enable access from both streets. The church has walls made of exposed concrete painted white. The façades of the church are structured by recesses embedded like a chessboard. The wall to the lower Schönheimstrasse is slightly inclined inwards, which is a contrast to the vertical church tower. The latter is 33 meters high. Its topping-out ceremony took place on March 16, 1964. The clock faces of the tower clock were donated by the Reformed parish of Urdorf. The cornerstone of the church, which was made as a corner stone, shows a representation of the seal used by St. Brother Klaus.
Bells
The bells of the Brother Klaus church were cast on December 4, 1963 in the Karl Czudnochowsky foundry in Erding, Bavaria. The consecration of bells took place on April 11, 1964.
| number | Weight | diameter | volume | dedication | inscription |
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| 1 | 3182 kg | 175 cm | A. | Trinity and Brother Klaus | "Prayer and penitent brother Klaus, take care of Fried in the Swiss house" |
| 2 | 1656 kg | 145 cm | cis | Our Lady Mary | «Our Lady in the Moss, lead us to the child on your lap» |
| 3 | 1063 kg | 127 cm | e | St. Joseph | "Joseph, foster father of the Lord, keep us work and bread" |
| 4th | 714 kg | 107 cm | f sharp | St. Michael | «St. Michael, escort you to bliss out of earthly trouble » |
| 5 | 458 kg | 91 cm | a | St. Nicholas and St. Bernard of Clairvaux | «St. Bernhard, chase the evil spirits - St. Nyklaus, becomes fire and water master » |
Interior and artistic equipment
The church portal leads to an atrium in which there is a holy water basin , which the Ticino artist Peter Travaglini of Vira TI carved out of gray-white Cristallina marble. The art locksmith Pfyl und Bracher, Dietikon forged the tripod . The baptistery is to the left of the atrium. In the tradition of medieval churches, the baptistery was placed in front of the actual church space. The baptismal font was created from the same stone as the holy water font , which shows that the believer remembers his baptism when he is crossed with holy water. On the west wall of the atrium there is a glass window by Peter Travaglini, in which the coats of arms of the donors of the big Brother Klaus window in the church can be discovered. The coats of arms of Bishop Christian Caminada and Pastor Felix Marbach were also attached to the side. The atrium was separated from the Lady Chapel by a wrought iron grille. The bars contained colored glass and were also designed by Piero Travaglini.
Lady Chapel
In the Lady Chapel there is an altar made of Bois Jourdan marble, which is supported by the Jesse root with three branches, symbolizing the family tree of Jesus. This design is the work of the artist Albert Wider, Widnau SG. The goldsmith's work was carried out by Ars et Aurus in Wil SG . Opposite the entrance is the late Gothic image of Our Lady of Our Lady in the Moos in a bay window created in 2013 . The wooden sculpture is of southern German origin. To the right of the altar was the altar cross created by Albert Wider , which can no longer be found. To the right of the Marienerker is a five-part Mary window by Peter Travaglini, which dims the daylight falling in from the east. It shows references to Mary from the Old Testament. At the bottom, the Paradise Snake tracks Mary's heel, above Noah's Ark is shown. In the middle part, the burning bush remains as intact as Maria. Top of the window two rescuers Israel are shown: At the top esters , crowned as the Queen of Heaven Mary, next to the gallows Haman , of Mordecai wanted to hang, and under the hand of the maid Judits that the severed from Judit head of Holofernes is in a sack.
Main room
Still conceived as a pre-conciliar church, the church still fulfills the requirements of the Second Vatican Council due to its floor plan as a transverse building , according to which the people of God should gather around the altar for the celebration of the Eucharist . The altar is made of Bois Jourdan marble and rests on four bronze cherubimes with the motifs of the four evangelists . The altar was designed by Albert Wider, the bronze feet were cast by the Rüetschi bell foundry in Aarau and the stone carving was made by the Basel marble factory. The altar area is raised three steps from the church floor and is illuminated by a skylight in the raised choir roof. The tabernacle is on the left side of the altar area and was made by Willy Buck, Wil SG, according to plans by Albert Wider. Under the tabernacle there is a marble slab, which was planned as a side altar before the conciliation and was to be dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra. The front doors of the tabernacle show bread and fish and thus refer to the Eucharist. The frame is equipped with rock crystals and colored stones and is reminiscent of a vision of the Holy Brother Klaus, who saw the fire-spraying head of Christ in this vision.
window
The large stained glass window of the church was designed together with the other stained glass windows by artist Peter Travaglini and made by the Aubert glass factory in Lausanne . It is dedicated to Brother Klaus and is located on the back wall of the nave. It takes up the whole height of the church and covers approx. 32 m². It was created using concrete glass technology and shows St. Brother Klaus at the bottom right. «In the flaming circle of light in the center, the saint sees the symbol of the One God. The three gold rays that flow from the circle tell him the work of the triune in the outer world of creation: creation, redemption and sanctification of the universe. Our love in return must correspond to such grace of God, which is expressed and manifested in love for one's neighbor through the presentation of works of mercy . " In 1965 the choir window was installed. It shows Jacob, sleeping on a stone, fleeing from his brother Esau . Angels go up and down on Jacob's ladder .
Sanctuary
The chancel has been redesigned several times over the years. At first there was a choir cross by Albert Wider behind the altar and then a tapestry by Moik Schiele. After the first choir cross on the wall was soon removed, a second choir cross, again by Albert Wider, was hung freely in the choir, which was controversial in the parish because of the way in which the crucified was depicted. Today there is a baroque lecture cross in the chancel, which Pastor Marbach in Ticino had bought and had prepared by goldsmith Jakob Huber from Ebikon . In 1991, in connection with the renovation of the church interior, the artist Eva Pauli was commissioned to redesign the apse. “It was important to carefully integrate the new intervention into the existing one. The wall painting has a flowing, airy, shimmering color that extends far into the room on both sides. Depending on the time of day, colored reflections of the glass windows on the painting complement the color scheme. This painting is not a figurative narrative, its open symbolism - a wall-filling cross shape, a tree of life, wide-spread arms - should address people directly and emotionally. In the baptistery the intensely shining red tones greet the new life ». In 2013 this design was refreshed by the artist together with the one in the baptistery.
Dorotheen round pictures
More than fifty years after her father Peter Travaglini designed the stained glass windows, Flavia Travaglini created five circular pictures on the life of the wife of St. Brother Klaus, Dorothea, for the patron saint's anniversary in 2017. The tondi are designed on wooden disks of a tree made of Sachseln , where the bones of the saint are. The circular pictures begin with spring and, following the seasons, show stations from the life of Dorothea. As in the stained glass window to St. Brother Klaus, the works of mercy are also shown. The last picture ends again in spring and shows the death of St. Brother Klaus.
Organs
organ
The organ was built in 1973/74 by Späth Orgelbau (Rapperswil SG) and has 18 stops. It was inaugurated on March 24, 1974 by Stefan Simeon (Thalwil). In 2005, Metzler Orgelbau carried out a revision.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Organ in the chapel
In 1993 an organ was purchased for the Marienkapelle. This was built in 1977 by Manufacture d'orgues St.-Martin NE and has five registers .
Disposition:
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Manual C – f 3
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| Principal | 4 ′ | |
| Reed flute | 4 ′ | |
| Gemshorn | 2 ′ | |
| Larigot B / D | 1 1 ⁄ 3 ′ | |
literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Holy Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. A young parish from 1960 with old roots from 1173. Urdorf 2013.
- Maximilian Georg Kroiss: Urdorf: The recipient becomes the giver. In: IM Info. The domestic mission briefing. No. 3, June 2014, pp. 6-7.
- Klara Obermüller: Dorotheas von Flüe life. Urdorf 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Hl. Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. P. 7-20, and Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (ed.): Schematismus. P. 260.
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Hl. Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. P. 15–16.
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Holy Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. p. 25.
- ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. Zurich 1989, p. 192
- ^ Christian Renfer: Catholic Church Bülach. Pp. 4-5.
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Hl. Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. P. 21–35, and Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (ed.): Schematismus. P. 260.
- ^ Website of the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich, resolutions of the Synodal Council, Section 51. Accessed on September 6, 2016.
- ^ Limmattaler Zeitung, article from December 14, 2015. Accessed on September 6, 2016.
- ↑ Aargauer Zeitung February 4, 2017. Retrieved on February 22 2017th
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. p. 84.
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Holy Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. P. 56.
- ↑ Obwalden Brattig. No. 39, volume 2014, p. 78.
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Hl. Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. P. 52, and Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (ed.): Schematismus. P. 260.
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Holy Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. p. 39.
- ↑ Eva Pauli: To my wall painting in the apse of the cath. Brother Klaus church in Urdorf. Zurich 1991.
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Hl. Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. P. 36–51.
- ↑ Klara Obermüller: Dorotheas von Flüe life. Urdorf 2017.
- ↑ Aargauer Zeitung February 4, 2017. Retrieved on February 22 2017th
- ↑ Maximilian Georg Kroiß: Hl. Brother Klaus Urdorf ZH in 2013. P. 58–60.
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '16.9 " N , 8 ° 25' 42.9" E ; CH1903: six hundred seventy-four thousand seven hundred and forty-six / 249048