Don Bosco (Zurich-Aussersihl)

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Don Bosco Church, exterior of Hohlstrasse
Missione Cattolica di Lingua Italiana and Don Bosco Church, exterior view from Feldstrasse

The Don Bosco Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Aussersihl district of Zurich . It is the church of the Missione Cattolica di Lingua Italiana (MCLI).

history

Don Bosco Church, interior view
Detail from the church ceiling

background

Since the 1860s, the community of Aussersihl experienced a strong immigration by foreign workers, especially by Italians who were involved in construction and the railroad. By 1888 Aussersihl had about 20,000 inhabitants; when it was incorporated in 1893, it counted more than the then city of Zurich. The Italian immigrants shaped the quarter. The mentality of the Italian immigrants and their precarious living conditions led to social tensions and disputes with young Swiss - the so-called "Italian riots" of 1896.

Development and construction history

In response to these disputes and the living conditions of the Italians, the Congregation of the Salesians founded the Zurigo Mission in 1898.

On March 24, 1901, the Società ausiliare italiana inaugurated a building with a chapel at Hohlstrasse 86. When the blessed Don Michael Rua , the first successor of Don Bosco , visited the mission in Zurich in 1902 , he pointed out a site nearby where a brick factory was located. This is still the area of ​​today's Missione at Feldstrasse 109.

On April 1, 1906, the mission inaugurated its headquarters at the current location. On March 17, 1903, the Bishop of Chur , Johannes Fidelis Battaglia , raised the Salesian mission to a personal parish with the task of caring for Italian immigrants .

The current church was built between 1951 and 1952 according to plans by the architect Attilio Calegari on the corner of Hohlstrasse and Feldstrasse. The foundation stone was laid on November 4, 1951, and on November 2, 1952, the Bishop of Chur, Christian Caminada , consecrated the church.

Between 1979 and 1980 the church was renovated by the architect Karl Higi and the altar area was adapted to the requirements of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council . In 2005 the Missione renovated their Don Bosco church again.

The multi-storey parish center built next to the Don Bosco church was inaugurated on October 26, 1985. It replaced the parish and journeyman's house from 1902. In 2016 the Don Bosco church was renovated. On December 4, 2016 Vicar General Josef Annen blessed the renovated church.

Besides the Eglise Sainte Famille (Hottingen) , the Don Bosco Church is the only larger church building for a Catholic mission in the city of Zurich.

Building description

View to the organ gallery

The Don Bosco Church is an outwardly simple building without a church tower or bells. The choir rosette and the round window above the organ gallery are reminiscent of Gothic cathedrals and the ornamental latticework shows the proximity of the church building to the Zurich churches by Ferdinand Pfammatter and Walter Rieger ( Dreikönigen , St. Konrad , St. Gallus and Maria Frieden Dübendorf ), which with their Design are in the tradition of French concrete construction and as such are also reminiscent of Gothic models.

Interior and artistic equipment

The interior of the Don Bosco Church consists of a simple nave and a raised, slightly curved choir . This receives daylight through two tall, narrow windows on both sides. In the nave, the light penetrates into the room through high-lying rectangular windows.

The artistic decor of the church is all the more rich: the rose window in the choir of the church shows a glass window with the apotheosis of St. Don Bosco. In the nave there are three paintings on each of the walls on the long side under the church windows, which are arranged in the tradition of the ceilings in the upper part of the wall, depicting scenes from the life of St. Don Bosco. These scenes illustrate Don Bosco's turning away from the repressive upbringing that was prevalent in his time towards a pedagogy of humanity , trust and charity . Other works of art such as a statue of the Virgin Mary on the left end of the nave or a bronze statue of St. Don Bosco enrich the interior of the church. The walls of the church are fitted with marble in the lower area .

organ

Späth organ from 1984

On November 1, 1984, the church received its present organ . It was built by the organ building company Späth Orgelbau AG in Rapperswil SG . The instrument has a mechanical key action and an electro-mechanical key action with the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Dumped 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Coupling flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Sesquialtera 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Duplicate 2 ′
Mixture III-IV 2 ′
II Swell C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Flageolet 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Dacked bass 16 ′
flute 8th'
Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : interacting with trains and kicks II-I, II-Ped, I-Ped
  • 4  combinations (Heuss-Setzer)
  • Pleno, trigger

See also

literature

  • Guido Kolb: 100 years of St. Peter and Paul. Zurich 1974.
  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
  • Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Churches in the City of Zurich. Zurich 1989.
  • Andrea Ciapparella and Tindaro Gatani: 1898-1998, Missione Cattolica italiana Zurigo. I Salesiani di Don Bosco al servizio della fede e dell'emigrazione. Zurich 1997.
  • Robert Schönbächler: Churches and places of worship in the city of Zurich. New Year's Gazette Industriequartier / Aussersihl. Zurich 2012.
  • City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development (Ed.): Catholic Churches of the City of Zurich. Inventory of Monument Preservation of the City of Zurich. Zurich 2014.

Web links

Commons : Don Bosco Zurich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See article on Wikipedia on Aussersihl
  2. ^ Robert Schönbächler: Churches and places of worship in the city of Zurich. P. 17
  3. ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. P. 200
  4. ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. P. 200
  5. ^ Robert Schönbächler: Churches and places of worship in the city of Zurich. P. 17
  6. ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. P. 200
  7. ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. P. 200
  8. ^ City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development (Ed.): Catholic Churches of the City of Zurich. Inventory of Monument Preservation of the City of Zurich. Zurich 2014. p. 191.
  9. ^ Website of the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  10. ^ Robert Schönbächler: Churches and places of worship in the city of Zurich. Pp. 17 and 77
  11. ^ Rainald Fischer, in: Guido Kolb: 100 years of St. Peter and Paul. P. 198
  12. ^ Rainald Fischer, in: Guido Kolb: 100 years of St. Peter and Paul. P. 198
  13. ^ City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development (Ed.): Catholic Churches of the City of Zurich. Inventory of Monument Preservation of the City of Zurich. Zurich 2014. p. 191.
  14. ↑ See article in Wikipedia on Don Johannes Bosco
  15. ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. P. 200
  16. ↑ Information from Orgelbau Späth

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '44.9 "  N , 8 ° 31' 23.3"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine  /  248155