Zimmerwald Church

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Zimmerwald Church (2001).
The coat of arms of the mayors Johann Anton Tillier and Albrecht Friedrich von Erlach (1770).

The church Zimmerwald is the Reformed Church of the communities Niedermuhlern and Wald BE in the canton of Bern , Switzerland .

The villages of Englisberg , Obermuhlern, Niedermuhlern and Zimmerwald belonged to the parish of Belp until 1699 . The gabled hall church with a polygonal end was built between 1697 and 1699. The late baroque baptismal font is dated 1698. In the vestibule there are six coats of arms from 1770, which were originally on the organ table. The three choir windows are decorated with stained glass by Aloys Balmer (1866–1933) from 1905. The interior of the church was renovated in 1958, and in 1986 Zimmerwald received today's organ. The exterior was renovated in 1991 and the interior of the church was renovated in the summer of 2017.

List of pastors (from 1699)

  • Johann Heinrich Ringier , 1699–1707
  • Daniel Neeser, 1707-1753
  • Samuel Küpfer , 1753–1786
  • Niklaus Gottlieb von Greyerz , 1786–1793
  • Johann Imhof, 1793–1799
  • Samuel Rengger, 1799–1802
  • Samuel Rudolf Küpfer, 1802–1811
  • Gottlieb Gruner, 1811-1830
  • Karl Kocher, 1830–1873
  • Friedrich Lutz, 1873–1882
  • Paul Eduard Kistler, 1882–1891
  • Friedrich Hans Wäber , 1891–1907
  • Emil Alfred Hopf, 1907–1937
  • Hans Max Trapp, 1937–1977
  • Jörg Rytz, 1977-2002
  • Katharina Gysin, 2003–2012
  • Susanne Berger, 2013–2019
  • Susann Müller – Graf, 2008–
  • Andrea Figge, 2019–

Bells

In 1699 the church received a cast-iron bell , probably cast in 1434 by Guillaume Chaufornier for Romont , which came to the Belp church as booty in 1475 and had to be given over to the Zimmerwald church to be completed. By the time of Neuguss in 1921, Zimmerwald owned two more bells: one that was cast by Joseph and Jost Keizer in Solothurn in 1781 and one undated from around 1528.

No.
 Surname
 Casting year
 Caster
 Transit
diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg)
 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
 Bell
stool
1 Blessing bell 1921 Rüetschi, Aarau 1560 it
2 Prayer bell 1921 Rüetschi, Aarau 645 as
3 Thank you bell 1921 Rüetschi, Aarau 310 c

swell

  • Archive of the parish

literature

  • Fritz Brönnimann: How the Zimmerwald Church got its first organ , Zimmerwald 1990.
  • Fritz Brönnimann: 700 years of Zimmerwald. Pictures from the history of an old village community , Zimmerwald 1996.
  • Cécile Dupeux ea (ed.): Iconoclasm. Madness or God's will? , Munich 2000, p. 165.
  • Arnold Nüscheler-Usteri : The bell inscriptions in the reformed part of the canton of Bern . In: Historical Association of the Canton of Bern and Friends of the Jubilee (ed.): Archive of the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern . tape 10 . Bern 1882, p. 255-415 .
  • Hans-Peter Ryser (Red.): Building inventory of the community of Zimmerwald , Zimmerwald / Bern 1995, p. 50.
  • Werner Steiner: The church of Zimmerwald , Schwarzenburg 1987.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donated by the local civic communities and donors from the communities, the brothers Alfred and Emil Streit and Gustav Klingelhöfer-Poensgen (1857–1918), landowner on Haus Horst near Düsseldorf.
  2. ^ Bernisches Historisches Museum , Inv. No. 13489 (deposit from the parish of Zimmerwald); Dupeux 2000, p. 165.
  3. ↑ Nüscheler-Usteri 1882, pp. 372–373.

Web links

Commons : Reformed Church Zimmerwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '35.1 "  N , 7 ° 28' 12.1"  E ; CH1903:  602393  /  191701