Bühl Church (Wiedikon)

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Bühl church, view from Wiedingstrasse over the outside staircase

The Bühl Church or Bühlkirche is an Evangelical Reformed church in the Wiedikon district of the city of Zurich . Since January 1, 2019, she has been part of the third parish of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Zurich

Building history

The church was built between 1894 and 1896 on behalf of the Reformed parish of Wiedikon according to plans by the Basel architect Paul Reber , who also built the Reformed Church in Zurich-Unterstrass and the Johanneskirche in the industrial district. The reason for the building of the church was the fact that the old prayer house had become too small for the growing congregation. After the church was renovated for the first time in 1945, extensive exterior and interior renovation took place between 1983 and 1984, with the original decorative painting and the two-story pulpit being restored.

description

The Bühl church stands in a slightly elevated position on a chain of hills parallel to the Sihl . At the foot of the range of hills was the original village of Wiedikon, in the south, south-west and west some industrial companies settled in the course of the 19th century. After the Bühl church had been built, old and new streets were aligned with it, so that the church, together with the Bühl schoolhouse built in 1898 , formed an ensemble that was visible from afar on the opposite side of Bühlstrasse . In this way, the up-and-coming district of Wiedikon was to receive a center. Due to the structural changes in the area, however, the original gesture of the ensemble only comes into play to a limited extent. A wide, monumental staircase leads up to the church from Wiedingstrasse . The stairs are accompanied on both sides by a curved system of paths. The outside area of ​​the church was designed as a small park consisting of trees and shrubs, the basic stock of which goes back to the construction period.

Architect Paul Reber designed the Bühl church as a neo-Gothic church and with this building proved that this architectural style could also be useful for Reformed preaching kitchens. To do this, he shortened the nave and added two polygonal transept arms to create the impression of a central building. In the middle of the building Paul Reber placed the two-story pulpit chair and in front of it the font. Behind it is the pulpit wall and above it the organ and singing gallery. Architectural and decorative paintings as well as the richly crafted wooden ceiling determine the interior of the church. There is a classroom under the organ loft, the lectern in the lower part of the pulpit is used for smaller church services, and the pulpit at the loft is useful when the church is full.

The 51-meter-high tower and the façade with the twin portal are oriented towards the city and give the Bühl Church its distinctive character. The facades of the church were built from different colored, pre-blinded bricks, which were manufactured by the mechanical brick factory in Wiedikon. The Bühl church is a listed building and is classified as regionally worthy of protection (lowest of the three protection levels).

organ

In 1897 a pneumatic cone chest organ was built by organ builder Friedrich Goll , Lucerne, with 33 stops on three manuals and pedal (Opus 154). In 1911 a trumpet 8 ′ was installed in the first manual by the builder company. In 1928 the wind pressure was increased and in 1948 the instrument was expanded to 43 registers. The organ was also "baroque" and an electro-pneumatic action was installed. In 1961 a new wind chest was built in the 2nd manual and two stops Scharff 1 ′ and Krummhorn 8 ′ were installed by Orgelbau Goll & Cie, Lucerne. In 1971 the Gemshorn 8 ′ register was installed in the main work, in 1972 two new mixtures and a hollow flute 8 ′ by Orgelbau Kuhn , Männedorf.

In 1984 a general overhaul of the organ was decided, in which the original sound character should be restored. The reason for this was the various renovations and installations over the past few decades, which had caused quite a crowd inside the organ. Free tonal development was no longer considered possible, and the imprecise way of playing and the disturbances caused by the pneumatics were no longer satisfactory. In 1985, a new organ in the old case from 1897 was built by Orgelbau Kuhn, Männedorf, with 44 stops on three manuals and pedal. The pneumatic Goll organ was not reconstructed, but the romantic sound character should be reproduced as far as possible. The old registers were taken over and registers that were lost in the meantime were recreated according to old documents. The cone chests were sliderchest replaced and a purely mechanical key action and an electrical instead of the pneumatic key action installed. An electronic composer system with 32 combinations supports the organist, but the previous register crescendo had to give way, which now has to be programmed into the composer system.

In 2003 the typesetting system was renewed and expanded to 3,000 combinations by Orgelbau Kuhn AG, Männedorf.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Bourdon 16 ′
3. Principal 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. Dumped 8th'
6th Octave 4 ′
7th flute 4 ′
8th. Octave 2 ′
9. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Mixture V 2 ′
11. Cornet V 8th'
12. Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – g 3
13. Violin principal 8th'
14th Dumped 8th'
15th Octave 4 ′
16. flute 4 ′
17th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Forest flute 2 ′
19th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
20th Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Clarinet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
22nd Principal 8th'
23. Bourdon 16 ′
24. Salicional 8th'
25th Voix Celeste 8th'
26th flute 8th'
27. Octave 4 ′
28. Open flute 4 ′
29 Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Flageolet 2 ′
31. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Harmonica aetherea III 2 ′
33. Trumpet 8th'
34. oboe 8th'
35. Clairon 4 ′
Pedal C – f 1
36. Principal bass 16 ′
37. Sub bass 16 ′
38. Harmonic bass 16 ′
39. Octavbass 8th'
40. violoncello 8th'
41. Octave 4 ′
42. Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
43. trombone 16 ′
44. Trumpet 8th'

See also

literature

  • INSA Inventory of Modern Swiss Architecture 1850–1921 (= INSA . Volume 10: Winterthur, Zurich, Zug. ) Orell Füssli, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-280-02180-4 , page 319.
  • Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, pp. 92–94.
  2. ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, p. 92.
  3. ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, pp. 92–94.
  4. ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein, section Ref. Bühlkirche Zurich-Wiedikon. Retrieved August 2, 2015.

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '4.4 "  N , 8 ° 31' 0.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred thirty-eight  /  246 896