Heart of Jesus (Winterthur-Mattenbach)
The Church of the Heart of Jesus is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Mattenbach district of Winterthur . It is on Untere Deutweg .
history
prehistory
The history of the parish Herz Jesu is closely linked to that of the parish St. Peter and Paul Winterthur-Neuwiesen until the middle of the 20th century . In the Middle Ages , the most important church in Winterthur was the Laurentiuskirche, which has been used for Reformed church services since the Reformation and is known as the Stadtkirche Winterthur . Catholic services were banned in the canton of Zurich between the Reformation in 1524 and 1807. The Edict of Tolerance made it possible for the immigrant Catholics in the canton of Zurich to take part in religious services in the city of Zurich. In 1813, 50 Catholics living in the city of Winterthur appealed to the city fathers for tolerance , but it was not until 1862, when the Rheinau monastery was abolished and the further use of its property was legally regulated by the canton of Zurich, that the first Catholic service was allowed in Winterthur have taken place since the Reformation. The so-called First Zurich Church Law from 1863 recognized Zurich as well as the Catholic parishes in Winterthur, Rheinau ZH and Dietikon (the last two were traditionally Catholic places), so that a Catholic parish could be established in Winterthur. In 1868 the newly built St. Peter and Paul Church was opened in the presence of representatives of the cantonal government, including state clerk and poet Gottfried Keller, and the city council of Winterthur. However, the establishment of further parishes in the canton and in Winterthur was not recognized by the state, which is why these had to be set up on the basis of private and association law, including the parish Herz Jesu Mattenbach.
Development and construction history
Mattenbach is the youngest district of Winterthur and is located between the city and lakes quarters . This area was uninhabited for a long time, but experienced an upswing from the 1870s after the construction of the Tösstal and St. Gallerstrasse . As a result of the proximity to industry, cooperative settlements also emerged from the 1880s . Another building boom took place until the middle of the 20th century. Since more and more Catholics were among the new residents, the desire for a Catholic church of their own arose in the 1920s. On January 1, 1929, the Catholic parish of the city of Winterthur bought the site of today's Church of the Heart of Jesus. The foundation stone was laid on August 27, 1933, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church was consecrated on October 28, 1934 and at the same time made the parish rectorate. The first interior renovation of the church took place in 1960, after the Second Vatican Council in the 1970s, the chancel was redesigned and the church was raised to become an independent parish. From 2017 to 2018 the church was extensively renovated by the architects Fässler und Partner. Today the parish Herz Jesu still belongs to the Catholic parish of Winterthur, which with its 25,882 members (as of 2014) is the largest Catholic parish in the canton of Zurich. The parish of Her Jesu is responsible for 2,343 Catholics.
Building description
Appearance and naming
The Church of the Sacred Heart is located at the intersection of Lower Deutweg / Zeughausstrasse and shows her show facade to passers this crossroads, which is why the Church is not traditionally as usual faces east is, but is oriented to the southeast. It is a longitudinal building with an attached church tower . This contains a four-part chime, which was cast by Fritz Hamm, Staad and sounds in the tone sequence c, es, f, a flat. To the right of this is the parsonage , to the left is the parish center built after the Second World War . The gesture of the church construction reveals modern features, clearly visible on the large round arch that is let into the building on the front side of the church. The monumental character of the church can be explained by the diaspora situation and the economic crisis prevailing at the time of its construction , which made the initiators of the church want to realize a formative, impressive design of the church building. In the arch there is a statue of Christ, which presents the opened Heart of Jesus and thus refers to the naming of the church.
The veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus found an upswing in the 19th and 20th centuries and is to be understood as the response of Catholic believers to the effects of the Kulturkampf. The Herz Jesu church in Zurich-Wiedikon , built just a few years earlier, is a second contemporary witness of the importance of Sacred Heart worship in the Zurich diaspora at that time.
Interior and artistic equipment
The two main portals of the church lead to an anteroom which is located under the organ loft of the church and to which the former baptistery is attached on the left. The main room of the church is accessed through three swing doors. High, rectangular windows allow yellow-colored daylight to penetrate into the single-nave room, so that the interior is bathed in glistening yellow light when the sunlight is appropriate. The monumentality of the church is underlined inside by the dimensions of the building. Conceived as a path church , the church leads the faithful to the liturgical events in the chancel, which is raised from the nave by several steps. The ceiling of the church is constructed similarly to the concrete ceiling of the Brother Klaus church in Zurich-Unterstrass, which was built almost at the same time . As was originally the case in that church, the central design element in the Herz Jesu-Kirche Winterthur is a large cross that is attached to the wall of the recently completed choir.
When, in the course of the Second Vatican Council, the community character of priest and congregation was emphasized more strongly, the choir of the church was redesigned. A semicircular choir wall made of wood was installed, which comes to stand in the direction of the church wall or in the direction of the nave by means of a circular rail embedded in the floor. If there is a service with a large congregation, the choir wall is behind the people's altar and contrasts the monumental church interior with an element that gives it a sense of security. If, on the other hand, there is a service with only a small number of visitors, the choir wall can be rotated 180 degrees so that the few believers can sit on chairs in the large choir and are shielded from the empty nave by the choir wall.
During the renovation of the church in 2018 and 2018, the semicircular choir wall was gilded to match the older statues of saints. The stations of the cross were also given a terracotta look.
organ
From 1934 onwards there was a small second-hand organ, built by Orgelbau Späth , Rapperswil, with 11 stops on 2 manuals and a pedal. The disposition was later expanded to 13 registers. The present organ of the church was consecrated on December 14, 1969. It is a mechanical instrument with 26 sounding stops on two manuals including a pedal from the organ building workshop Mönch und Prachtel from Überlingen on Lake Constance. In 1993 the Rückpositiv was added by the organ building company Mönch. Since then the instrument has 33 stops on 3 manuals and a pedal.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
A positive organ is set up in the church choir, which is used to accompany smaller church services. The instrument has five unnamed registers: 8 ', 4' bass, 2 'and 8' treble and 4 'treble.
literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Peter Niederhäuser and Flurina Pescatore: St. Peter and Paul. The mother church of Katholisch-Winterthur. Winterthur 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Niederhäuser and Flurina Pescatore: St. Peter and Paul. The mother church of Katholisch-Winterthur. Pp. 7-17.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 266.
- ↑ zueriost.ch Accessed on May 11, 2018.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2014. P. 79.
- ↑ Katholische Kirchgemeinde Winterthur, counting of Catholics as of December 31, 2017.
- ↑ zueriost.ch Accessed on May 11, 2018.
- ^ Organ directory Switzerland-Liechtenstein. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
- ^ Archives of the parish.
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '28.7 " N , 8 ° 44' 9.6" E ; CH1903: 697 765 / 260 868