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| Place: | Zurich | |||
| Canton: | Zurich | |||
| Country: | Switzerland | |||
| Altitude : | 436 m | |||
| Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '45.1 " N , 8 ° 31' 46.8" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and nineteen / 246315 | ||||
| Use: | Evangelical Reformed Church | |||
| Accessibility: | Observation tower open to the public | |||
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| Construction time : | 1894 | |||
| Total height : | 64.00 m | |||
| Viewing platform: | 50.00 m | |||
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The Enge Church is an Evangelical Reformed church building in Zurich's Enge district .
history
In 1880 the then still independent political community Enge had 3557 Reformed inhabitants, which is why the previous prayer house , built in 1776 with its 350 seats, had become too small for the Reformed parish. In addition, the parish broke away from St. Peter in 1882 and formed its own parish, which led to the desire for a representative church. In 1885, the then parish president Conrad Escher gave the young parish a meadow east of the house of prayer so that the new church could be built. For years, however, there was no agreement in the community as to where the church should be built. Various locations came into question, which would have made the church visible from afar either in the center of the village or on a higher location. When the parish assembly in 1887 decided in favor of the current location on the Bürgliterrasse, a legal dispute with the owner of the Bürgli-Terrassen restaurant , Adolf Guyer-Zeller , followed for years . During and after the ongoing litigation, which ended in favor of the parish before the federal court, further building sites were discussed. At the parish assembly on September 27, 1890, the Bürgliterrassen were definitely chosen as the location of the new church and the expropriated Adolf Guyer-Zeller was paid a large sum calculated by an appraisal commission.
In 1890 a competition was held to build a new church for the narrow. Since none of the 22 submitted projects was convincing, none was recommended for implementation. On August 16, 1891, the parish assembly decided in favor of a project submitted out of competition by the architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli , who was on the one hand a student and on the other hand, as professor, successor to Gottfried Semper at the Zurich Polytechnic. According to his plans, the Enge church was built between 1892 and 1894 in the neo-renaissance style. The foundation stone was laid on May 14, 1892 and the church was ceremonially consecrated on June 24, 1894.
The two parsonages were built by Friedrich Bluntschli in two stages: he built the older, southern parsonage at Bürglistrasse 19 in 1894, the younger northern one at Bürglistrasse 11 in 1900. The gardens around the church were built in two phases: in 1894 the The immediate vicinity of the church was designed according to plans by Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli, the second part took place in 1925, after the old Enge cemetery was abandoned and the SBB tunnel was built, according to plans by Hermann Herter and the Mertens brothers. In 1927 the interior and the outside staircase were renovated, in 1963 the original classroom under the organ gallery was converted into a reflection room and in 1976 the church was completely renovated. The tower was renovated from 1979 to 1984, the exterior of the church in 2002 to 2003.
Building description
Outside area and bells
The church is located on a hilltop and is easily visible from the promenade of Lake Zurich . Because of its striking location and its representative appearance, the Enge church is one of the landmarks of the quarter. It was created by Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli as a central building with a cross-shaped floor plan including a dome drum above the slightly raised crossing. The east-west direction of the building is emphasized by the large vestibule in the east and the rectangular porch for the organ in the west. Various building materials ( gneiss from Ticino, Savonnière limestone from France, Toggenburg tuff and Baveno granite ) structure the exterior of the church. The representative entrance front faces the city and the lake. The tower was designed as an Italian campanile in the north-western corner of the complex and houses five bells from the Jakob Keller bell foundry (Zurich) in the strike tone sequence b 0 –d 1 –f 1 –g 1 –b 1 . They hang in steel chairs on cranked steel yokes.
A generous granite staircase rises from Seestrasse to the main entrance . The foot of the stairs is framed by the statues of a clever and a foolish virgin created by Arnold Hünerwadel in 1925. A curved driveway leads from Bürglistrasse to the church square.
Bell lift 1894
1898
Church hill, view from the Uetliberg
inner space
Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli designed the interior of the church as a unified central area, which is grouped around the baptismal font , the Lord's Supper table , the pulpit and the organ. Each cross arm has a gallery around the crossing , the dome rests on large crossing pillars. Broad barrel vaults span the cross arms . The walls are decorated with square paintings, the beams and the belt cassettes are painted with ornaments. The capitals and balustrades were carved. The baptismal font made of Pavonazzo marble stands in the central axis on a podium raised by two steps in front of the pulpit wall. It has the shape of a goblet or fountain, but is flat like a table. The inscription in golden capitals runs around the bowl: "Let the little children come to me". With a wooden conversion, the baptismal font can be expanded to become the Lord's Supper table. In the cross dome wraps there are four evangelist medallions by Eugen Ott, the twin arched windows show Peter and Paulus , Luther and Zwingli , King David as a singer with two angels and were designed by Friedrich Berbig. The pulpit was designed based on a model from the Renaissance and bears the date 1894 on the base. Its pulpit has oak carvings by Josef Regl, the chandeliers of the church were designed by the architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli.
The church can accommodate around 1200 people.
organ
The organ was built in 1894 by the organ builder Th. Kuhn (Männedorf) and renewed in 1951 according to the planning of organist E. Vollenwyder. In 1993 the remote control was added, which was operated by II. And III. Manual can be played. The slider chests -instrument has 68 registers on three manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric. The once lush carvings on the case have largely disappeared .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Appreciation
The Enge Church is a monumental building in a prominent location and is considered to be one of the most important neo-Renaissance church buildings in Switzerland. At the same time, the Enge Church is one of the most famous works by architect Friedrich Bluntschli. Bluntschli used a project by his teacher Gottfried Semper as a template for the Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Winterthur, which was realized according to different plans . Following the example of the Enge Church, the Kreuzkirche in Hottingen was built a few years later on the opposite side of the lake .
Viewing platforms
In the months of May to August, the tower and the pulpit can be visited every second Thursday from 5:00 p.m. without prior notice. 208 steps lead to the viewing platform in the bell tower at a height of 50 meters.
Pulpit viewing platform
Bell tower observation deck
Staircase to the viewing platform
See also
literature
- François Guex: Swiss Art Guide. Reformed Church, Zurich-Enge (= Swiss Art Guide ). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Basel 1978.
- Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development: Enge, Wollishofen, Leimbach (= Baukultur in Zurich. Volume V). NZZ , Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-03823-074-X .
- Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006.
- Johannes Stückelberger: The Reformed Church Enge in Zurich (= Swiss Art Guide, No. 975). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK., Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-03797-229-8 .
- Ewald Walter: 100 years of the Zurich-Enge parish. Becoming a parish. Anniversary font. [no location] 1982.
Web links
- Evangelical Reformed parish in Zurich-Enge
- The organ of the church Enge in the free organ database Organ index
- Bells on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the history of the independence see Ewald Walter: 100 years Kirchgemeinde Zürich-Enge. Becoming a parish. Anniversary font. [no location] 1982, pp. 38-46.
- ↑ For details on searching for and choosing a building site, see Ewald Walter: 100 Jahre Kirchgemeinde Zürich-Enge. Becoming a parish. Anniversary font. [no location] 1982, pp. 46-49.
- ↑ Jürg Weyermann: On the building site dispute. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish Enge; accessed on August 2, 2015.
- ↑ For details on searching for and choosing a building site, see Ewald Walter: 100 Jahre Kirchgemeinde Zürich-Enge. Becoming a parish. Anniversary font. [no location] 1982, pp. 46-49.
- ↑ For the construction and related considerations see Ewald Walter: 100 years Kirchgemeinde Zürich-Enge. Becoming a parish. Anniversary font. [no location] 1982, pp. 49-59.
- ^ Martin Zollinger: From the building association to the festive sermon. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish Enge; accessed on August 2, 2015.
- ↑ Building history and overall system. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish Enge; accessed on August 2, 2015.
- ^ Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Zurich 2006, pp. 76–77.
- ^ Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Zurich 2006, p. 76.
- ^ Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Zurich 2006, p. 78.
- ↑ The interior of the church. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish Enge; accessed on August 2, 2015.
- ↑ More information about the organ
- ^ Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Zurich 2006, p. 77.
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