Maria Frieden (Dübendorf)
The parish church Maria Frieden in Dübendorf , Canton Zurich in Switzerland, is a Roman Catholic church . It is located in the city center of Dübendorf on the corner of Wil- and Leepüntstrasse.
history
From the Reformation period to the end of the 19th century, no Roman Catholic services took place in Dübendorf. In 1897 they were taken up again, initially in the dance hall of the Kreuz restaurant. In 1902 the Catholic parish acquired a former herdsman's hut on Wilstrasse, which served as a parsonage and emergency chapel for 50 years . The chapel was consecrated on December 21, 1902. Due to the growing number of residents and Catholics, however, a new building was necessary, and the foundation stone was laid on August 27, 1950.
The Sennhütte , which served as an emergency church from 1902 to 1952
Interior view of the Sennhütte
The parish Maria Frieden is a daughter parish of the Herz Jesu (Zurich-Oerlikon) . In 1904 Dübendorf was promoted to parish rectorate, on December 7, 1926, to a parish and separated from Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon. The parish of Maria Frieden itself is the mother parish of the neighboring parish of St. Anthony of Padua in Wallisellen , where religious instruction has been given from Dübendorf since 1906 and services have been celebrated in an emergency church since 1922. On January 1, 1927, Wallisellen was raised to a parish and separated from Dübendorf. The parishes of Fällanden and Schwerzenbach also belong to the parish of Dübendorf to this day . Bishop Johannes Vonderach appointed Fällanden as parish vicariate on September 1, 1975. Between 1990 and 1992 the parish center St. Catherine of Siena was built in Fällanden by the architect Peter Brader . The small parish center St. Gabriel, including a chapel in the basement, was also created for the Catholics in Schwerzenbach in the 350-year-old Wiesenthal farmhouse, which was bought in 1971 .
Between 1950 and 1952, today's church was built according to plans by the architects Ferdinand Pfammatter and Walter Rieger . On April 27, 1952, the Bishop of Chur Christian Caminada consecrated the church in honor of Mary, Queen of Peace . In 1957 the rectory followed, in 1963 the church tower was completed. The bells in this tower were rung for the first time on Easter vigil of the same year.
In 1992 the newly built Parish Center Leepünt was inaugurated. In 2003 the church was completely renovated by architect Walter Moser and in 2007 the former parish hall under the church was converted into a crypt .
After Winterthur and Uster, the parish of Dübendorf is the third largest Catholic parish in the canton of Zurich with 11,707 members (as of 2017). The parish Maria Frieden Dübendorf is responsible for 8,123 members (as of 2017)
Church tower and bells
The church tower by Maria Frieden was built in 1963 and represents a striking architectural element of the town center of Dübendorf. With its height of 45 m, it is the same height as the church is long. The tower cross has a height of 4.20 m. The bronze bells cast by the H. Rüetschi company in Aarau were consecrated and wound up in 1963. They have a total weight of 14,820 kg and sound in the tone sequence g ° - b ° - c '- es' - f '- g'.
| number | Weight | volume | dedication |
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| 1 | 5800 kg | G 0 | Trinity |
| 2 | 3350 kg | B 0 | Mother of God |
| 3 | 2450 kg | c 1 | St. Joseph |
| 4th | 1500 kg | it 1 | Elias |
| 5 | 1000 kg | f 1 | St. Barbara |
| 6th | 770 kg | g 1 | St. Bernard |
Relation of the church bells to the military airfield
The first Swiss airfield was built in 1910 on the drained reed between Dübendorf and Wangen . That is why Dübendorf is considered the birthplace of Swiss civil and military aviation. After the opening of the airport in Kloten , the airfield in Dübendorf was operated by the army as the largest military airfield in Switzerland. The dedication of the fourth and fifth bells refers to these circumstances: The prophet Elias , who drove to heaven in a fiery chariot, is the patron saint of air troops and all pilots. The St. Barbara is the patron saint of the army, the artillery and the towers.
building
Since the population of Dübendorf has been growing steadily since the beginning of the 20th century and rapidly after the Second World War due to the airport and the proximity to the city of Zurich, it was decided to build a large church.
The church is a 45 m long structure with a basilica floor plan. The church has a three-quarter barrel vault , the ribs of which extend between the window wall surfaces in an arched curve to the floor. The polygonal apse has its counterpart in the likewise polygonal entrance front, to which the organ gallery is attached. After the rearmost pews under the gallery were removed, the church now offers space for 400 people attending services.
The vault has a pitch of 18 m and a cornice height of 15 m, the height effect of which is emphasized by the low aisles. Due to the rhythmic concrete pillars and concrete belts, the large church windows and the decorative concrete latticework, the Maria Frieden church is counted together with the three other churches built by Ferdinand Pfammatter in the greater Zurich area - Dreikönigen (Zurich-Enge) , St. Konrad (Zurich-Albisrieden) and St. Gallus (Zurich-Schwamendingen) - on the "concrete Gothic". The dimensions of the church and the monumental rosette above the organ loft reinforce the proximity of this church to a Gothic cathedral. The Marienkapelle is built across the entrance to the church.
Roof turret Marienkapelle
Vault of the church, detailed view
Lady Chapel, detail of the entrance portal
Lady Chapel, rose grid
Entrance portal by Max Spielmann
Furnishing
Stained glass window
An essential design element of the interior of the church are the glass mosaics in the choir, designed by Paul Monnier (1907–1982) as a triptych , and the window rosette above the organ gallery. In contrast to the traditional leaded glass windows , the colorful glasses were not held by lead rods, but by black-colored concrete. The glass concrete windows are particularly effective due to the unevenness of the two surfaces and the thickness and luminosity of the glass.
The picture program for the windows comes from Alois Ender (pastor in Dübendorf from 1942 to 1968). The triptych in the choir is held in shades of blue, reminding us that the church is dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God. The middle window deals with the way to Eternal Life , the right window is dedicated to the grace of God and the left window to creation . The fourth and fifth windows in the choir show scenes from the Old (left window) and New Testament (right window).
As a counterpart to the 14 m high choir windows, there is a rose window on the entrance front above the organ gallery. Based on the tympanum above the portal of Gothic cathedrals, the rosette addresses the Last Judgment of the Revelation of St. John .
Two smaller windows in the nave were also designed by Paul Monnier. The window on the right shows the pilgrimage site Flüeli-Ranft , where the Holy Brother Klaus lived and worked, the left window shows the Einsiedeln Monastery and the Black Madonna .
The large windows in the nave contain depictions of the Twelve Apostles and are by the Innsbruck artist Max Spielmann . They were created together with the fourth and fifth choir windows in a second stage of the church design and consecrated in 1969.
Further equipment of the church
The main portal of the church comes from Max Spielmann. The right door of the bronze portal shows the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, the left the four evangelists and the twelve apostolic crosses. Also by Max Spielmann are the cross with corpus in the choir and the way of the cross, which was commissioned in 1977 and installed in the side aisles of the nave of the church.
Willy Buck, Wil SG created the tabernacle in 1969 , followed by the baptismal font and the ambo in 1976 . The statue of Joseph by the baptismal font is also by Willy Buck .
During the church renovation in 2003, the large stone altar was returned to its original location on the choir wall and replaced by a light-looking popular altar designed by Werner Gugolz, Küsnacht ZH.
Organs
Späth organ, from 1969 to 2012
The first organ in the church was built in 1969 by the Späth company from Rapperswil . It counted 41 registers with 3,025 pipes. A peculiarity of this organ was that it was set up in two parts to the left and right of the stained glass rosette and underlined the vertical alignment of the church with its organ front. This organ was dismantled in 2012.
The Goršič organ
After the Späth organ was dismantled, an organ created in 1886 by the Slovenian Franc Goršič (1836–1898) was installed in the choir as an interim instrument. This organ was built as Goršičs op. 46 for a castle chapel near Ljubljana, today's Ljubljana . Goršič was open to romantic notions of sound, but stuck to the slide box and the mechanical action all his life .
The organ, damaged in the Second World War, was rescued by organ friends and restored by the organ builder Bernhardt Edskes . With the exception of the wind supply, the entire technical system and a large part of the pipework, some of which dates from the 17th century, were preserved. This organ is a unique example of the organ culture in Switzerland in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is one of the few historical instruments in the canton of Zurich .
Disposition of the Goršič organ:
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The new main organ
On April 6, 2014 the new main organ in the organ gallery was inaugurated by Vicar General Josef Annen. It was built by Bernhardt Edskes and is in the tradition of Arp Schnitger and his students. The musical concept focuses in a special way on the presentation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries, but is also open to 19th century music through the inclusion of late baroque voices and string registers. The main work has thirteen, the positive has twelve and the pedal has eleven registers , so that the organ has 36 parts. The manual works are housed in the right case, the pedals in the left case. The free-standing console with mechanical action is axially facing the altar. Architecturally, this organ also takes the rose window above the gallery into account and was therefore - as in many monastery churches in southern Germany and Austria - built with two side facing prospects and divided works.
Disposition of the Edskes organ:
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- Coupling : II / I
- 2 tremulants (for manuals and for pedal)
- Stop for piano forte (positive)
- Well-tempered mood
Organ loft
crypt
Altar in the crypt
Lady Chapel
The Marienkapelle built across the church front on the right is used for devotions or for personal prayer. The portrait of Mary in the Rosenhag and the two church windows are by the artist Max Spielmann from Innsbruck. The right stained glass window shows the joyful, the painful and the glorious mysteries of the rosary from left to right . The left window shows the Virgin Mary, surrounded by the fourteen helpers in need .
crypt
In 2007, the Zurich artist Josef Caminada designed the relationship between the tabernacle , ambo , altar and cross in the crypt . The light falls into the room through white slats, the red choir wall enlivens the otherwise almost colorless room.
Auxiliary Bishop Paul Vollmar blessed the new crypt on February 1, 2008. The relics of St. Fidelis von Sigmaringen are enclosed in the altar of the crypt . This crypt is used for weekday services, devotions and smaller funeral services and offers space for 70 people.
Individual evidence
- ^ Alois Ender, in: Catholic Parish Dübendorf. 1977, p. 27.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Pp. 202 and 264
- ^ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Annual report 2017, p. 82.
- ^ Catholic parish Dübendorf. 1977, p. 49.
- ^ Ferdinand Pfammatter, in: Catholic parish Dübendorf. 1977, p. 43.
- ^ Rainald Fischer, in: Guido Kolb: 100 years of St. Peter and Paul. Pp. 197-198.
- ^ Catholic parish Dübendorf. 1977, p. 59.
- ^ Catholic parish Dübendorf. 1977, p. 50.
- ↑ Information on the Goršič organ . Retrieved July 9, 2013.
- ↑ See the concept of the organ website of the parish of Dübendorf, section Music and Culture . ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
literature
- Eduard Schuler: Catholic parish Dübendorf, jubilee year 1977. Festschrift for the jubilee. Dübendorf 1977.
- Guido Kolb: 100 years of St. Peter and Paul. Zurich 1974.
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '41.9 " N , 8 ° 37' 5.5" E ; CH1903: 689051 / 250020