List of the tallest sacred buildings in Switzerland

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Finial and pinnacle on the 64 m high viewing platform of the Bernese Minster , the highest church tower in Switzerland with a total of 100.6 m

The list of the tallest sacred buildings in Switzerland includes the 33 tallest buildings above 64 m in height. The list may not be complete.

Only church towers appear on the list (i.e. no domes or roof turrets ) and only buildings from the Roman Catholic and Evangelical Reformed regional churches . The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland and the Free Churches do not have a church building of this height. The sacred buildings of Judaism , Islam and other faiths also do not reach the appropriate height. The highest minaret, for example, that of the Mosquée de Genève , built in 1978 , is 22 m high.

The noticeable accumulation of tower buildings in the 19th and early 20th centuries is essentially due to improved technical possibilities ( steel construction ), the stylistic zeitgeist ( Gothic Revival ) and urbanization . In some cases it is not a question of new church or tower buildings, but only new constructions of the tower top or spire .

List of the tallest sacred buildings in Switzerland

rank Building Location Canton Height (m) completion Architectural styles Denomination
1 Muenster Bern BE 100.6 m 1893 Late Gothic , Neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
2 St. Martin Malters LU 97.6 m 1883 historicism Roman Catholic
3 Preacher Church Zurich ZH 97.0 m 1900 Neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
4th St. Magdalena Alpnach NW 91.2 m 1820 classicism Roman Catholic
5 St. Johann and Paul Schüpfheim LU 88.0 m 1808 Rococo , classicism Roman Catholic
6th reformed Church Box SG 82.0 m 1932 Moderate New Objectivity evangelical reformed
7th Matthew Church Basel BS 80.0 m 1895 Neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
St. Martin Chur GR 80.0 m 1917 Neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
9 Fraumünster Zurich ZH 79.5 m 1732 Romanesque , Gothic, Baroque evangelical reformed
10 St. Nicholas Cathedral Freiburg FR 76.0 m 1430 Gothic Roman Catholic
11 Protestant church Amriswil TG 75.0 m 1892 Neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
cathedral Lausanne VD 75.0 m 1820 Gothic , neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
reformed Church Richterswil ZH 75.0 m 1905 Neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
St. Jakob am Stauffacher Zurich ZH 75.0 m 1901 Neo-Renaissance , Art Nouveau evangelical reformed
15th St. Jacob Cham ZG 74.0 m 1868 Gothic, neo-Gothic Roman Catholic
16 Elisabethenkirche Basel BS 72.0 m 1865 Neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
Holy Spirit Church Bern BE 72.0 m 1729 Baroque evangelical reformed
St. Laurenzen St. Gallen SG 72.0 m 1854 Neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
19th reformed Church Bulach ZH 71.0 m 1831 classicism evangelical reformed
20th reformed Church Horgen ZH 70.5 m 1875 Baroque, historicism evangelical reformed
21st St. George and Zeno Arth SZ 70.0 m 1704 Baroque Roman Catholic
St. Paul Lucerne LU 70.0 m 1912 Neo-Gothic, reform architecture Roman Catholic
23 St. Trinity Adliswil ZH 69.0 m 1904 Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic
Court church , two towers Lucerne LU 69.0 m 1644 Gothic, post-Gothic Roman Catholic
25th Cathedral of St. Gallus and Otmar , two towers St. Gallen SG 68.0 m 1766 Rococo Roman Catholic
26th Munster , Georgsturm Basel BS 67.3 m around 1420 Late Gothic evangelical reformed
27 St. Martin Schwyz SZ 66.5 m 1774 Rococo Roman Catholic
28 St. Ursen Cathedral Solothurn SO 66.0 m 1773 classicism Roman Catholic
29 San Gottardo Intragna TI 65.0 m 1772 Baroque Roman Catholic
30th reformed Church Waedenswil ZH 64.0 m 1764 Rococo evangelical reformed
Grossmünster , two towers Zurich ZH 64.0 m 1787 Romanesque, late Gothic, neo-Gothic evangelical reformed
Reformed Church Narrow Zurich ZH 64.0 m 1894 Neo-renaissance evangelical reformed
St. Peter Zurich ZH 64.0 m 1787 Romanesque, Gothic, Post-Gothic evangelical reformed

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  • The tower of the late Gothic Bern Minster was not completed until the 19th century

  • Highest tower of a Swiss country church in Malters

  • Tower of the Zurich Preacher Church by Gustav Gull

  • Elegant needle helmet of the parish church Alpnach

  • Schüpfheim church tower by Niklaus Purtschert

  • Moderately modern design of the Buchs church tower

  • Neo-Gothic tower of the Matthäuskirche Basel

  • The Chur Martinsturm towers over the tower of the higher cathedral by one meter

  • Gothic tower with baroque spire of the Zurich Fraumünster

  • Tower of Friborg Cathedral with platform

  • The Protestant church tower in Amriswil

  • Crossing tower of the Lausanne Cathedral by Viollet-le-Duc

  • Jacques Kehrer's church tower in Richterswil

  • Tower of the St. Jakob Church in Zurich

  • Parish church of Cham am Zugersee

  • Elisabethenkirche Basel by Ferdinand Stadler

  • Half-incorporated tower of the Reformed Church of the Holy Spirit in Bern

  • Tower of the St. Laurenzen town church in St. Gallen

  • Tower of the city church Bülach

  • Reformed church in Horgen, increased by 5 m after a fire in 1875

  • Baroque front tower of the parish church Arth

  • Tower of the Lucerne Pauluskirche by Karl Moser

  • Tower of the Catholic Church in Adliswil

  • Double tower facade of the Lucerne Court Church

  • Baroque monumentality of the double-towered choir facade of the collegiate church and cathedral of St. Gallen

  • Georgsturm of Basel Minster (left)

  • St. Martinsturm in Schwyz

  • St. Ursen Cathedral in Solothurn

  • Highest church tower in Ticino in Intragna

  • Wädenswil church tower by Johann Ulrich Grubenmann

  • Double tower facade of the Zurich Grossmünster

  • Neo-Renaissance church in Zurich-Enge

  • St. Peter in Zurich with the largest dials in Europe

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SRF: A visit to the controversial Geneva mosque , April 17, 2016
  2. ↑ Bern Minster
  3. ↑ Luzerner Zeitung: Church: Malters wanted high up , November 12, 2014
  4. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Where Zurich is closest to heaven , 07/27/2018
  5. ↑ Sacred landscape of Central Switzerland
  6. ↑ Luzerner Zeitung: In the wall there is a ball from 1847 , November 4th, 2014
  7. ^ Evangelical parish of Buchs
  8. ↑ BBINW: Location information Basel - Feldbergstrasse / Matthäusquartier
  9. ↑ Chur magazine
  10. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Where Zurich is closest to heaven , 07/27/2018
  11. ↑ Guide artistique de la Suisse , Volume 4b, Bern 2012, p. 26.
  12. ↑ Amriswil municipality
  13. ↑ Lausanne Tourism
  14. ↑ Zürichsee-Zeitung: Where history and stories soar into the sky , December 27, 2019, p. 2.
  15. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Where Zurich is closest to heaven , 07/27/2018
  16. ↑ Sacred landscape of Central Switzerland
  17. ↑ BBINW: Location information Basel - Feldbergstrasse / Matthäusquartier
  18. ^ Presidential Directorate of the City of Bern, September 16, 2015
  19. ↑ Tagblatt: Tower ball back on top , October 6, 2016
  20. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Where Zurich is closest to heaven , 07/27/2018
  21. ↑ Zürichsee-Zeitung: Where history and stories soar into the sky , December 27, 2019, p. 2.
  22. ↑ Southeast Switzerland: The tallest structures in the Schwyz region , April 9, 2014
  23. ↑ Sacred landscape of Central Switzerland
  24. ↑ Zürichsee-Zeitung: Where history and stories soar into the sky , December 27, 2019, p. 2.
  25. ^ Swiss cantons. Entry portal to Switzerland
  26. ^ Josef Grünenfelder: The St. Gallen Abbey District . Cultural-historical guide , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012.
  27. ↑ Basel Minster
  28. ↑ Southeast Switzerland: The tallest structures in the Schwyz region , April 9, 2014
  29. ↑ Switzerland Tourism
  30. ↑ Art Guide through Switzerland , Volume 2, Bern 2005, p. 631.
  31. ↑ Peter Ziegler : Reformed Church Wädenswil , p. 25.
  32. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Where Zurich is closest to heaven , 07/27/2018
  33. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Where Zurich is closest to heaven , 07/27/2018
  34. ^ Peter Ziegler: St. Peter in Zurich , p. 159.

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