Effretic bell tower

Basic data

Place:

Illnau-Effretikon

Canton:

Zurich

Country:

Switzerland

Altitude :

512 m

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '41.1 " N , 8 ° 41' 22.1" E ; CH1903: 694 373 / two hundred and fifty-three thousand seven hundred and eighty-three

Use:

Church tower, lookout tower

Accessibility:

Observation tower open to the public

Owner :

Evangelical Reformed Church Effretikon

Tower data

Construction time :

1961

Architect :	Ernst Gisel
Building material :	concrete

Total height :

20.00 m

Viewing platform:

10.00 m

Position map

Effretic bell tower

The Effretiker bell tower belongs to the reformed church in Effretikon and is also a lookout tower in the municipality of Illnau-Effretikon in the canton of Zurich .

Emergence

Ernst Gisel from Zurich won the 1957 architecture competition . The building was completed in 1961.

situation

The tower made of concrete is 20 meters high. The viewing platform is ten meters high and 46 steps lead up to it.

The church (with tower) can be reached from the Effrektion train station in about five minutes. From the viewing platform you have a view of the city of Effrektion. Five bells from the H. Rüetschi AG Aarau foundry from 1960 are housed in the open church tower . They sound in the tones: B ⁰ , d ¹ , f ¹ , g ¹ , b ¹ .

Stairs
Viewing platform
Bells over the viewing platform

and display information about the image

360 ° panorama from the Effretik bell tower