New church Wollishofen

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View from the north

The New Church of Wollishofen (also: Church on the Egg ) is an Evangelical Reformed church building in the style of New Building in Zurich .

history

There is evidence that the former farming village of Wollishofen had had a chapel since 1281. In 1702 the still preserved old church was built. After Wollishofen was incorporated into Zurich in 1893, settlement and population increased sharply. In 1930, an ideas competition was therefore held for building over the Egg Hill with a church, a rectory and residential buildings. In 1931 an architecture competition was held, which the architects Walter Henauer and Ernst Witschi were able to win. In the years 1935-1936 the church was built. In 1989 the church was extensively renovated by the architect Alfred Trachsel. The semi-oval church is next to the Pauluskirche the initial work of the modern in the reformed church building of the canton Zurich and is stylistically and functionally groundbreaking for the further development of the sacral architecture in Switzerland.

description

Exterior

Main facade with tower

The church is a total work of art of classical modernism . The structure of the nave , which is rounded to the west, and the bell tower are visible from afar on a hill above the quarter. The facades are clad with shell limestone and have a sober, modern design language thanks to the high rectangular windows.

The bell tower hides a five-part chime in the tone sequence A ° c 'd' f 'g'. The bells were cast in 1936 by the H. Rüetschi company . The tower is only accessible from the outside and has large, open sound openings and a tower clock without a dial. A rooster crowns the tower, which is closed without a visible spire. The church towers in Altstetten and Leimbach are clearly inspired by Wollishofer's church tower.

The main facade contrasts with the rounded west side of the church. The facade forms a broad rectangle, to which the cuboid tower that connects to the north and the three rectangular openings to the pronaos are related. The facade is only loosened up by the reliefs on the natural stone slabs , which depict Jesus Christ with the apostles and an angel . The reliefs were designed in 1936 by Otto Charles Bänninger , his relief sculpture on the church front wall shows The Feeding of the Five Thousand . He also made a sculpture from 1942 at the other end of the park that belongs to the church.

Interior

Interior view of the nave

The entrance hall leads to the foyers on the left and right, from which the gallery and the foyer that runs around the entire church, as well as storage rooms and sanitary facilities are accessible. From the foyer (unusual for Reformed church buildings) you get to the sober church service room, which exudes a warm atmosphere thanks to the wooden paneling of the walls and the contemporary design of brass lamps. The church interior is illuminated by the high windows with slightly tinted panes in the upper area of ​​the outer walls. The benches follow the scheme of a Greek theater and are oriented towards the liturgy zone, which is raised by a few steps and includes a carved communion table and a shell-shaped pulpit . The interior design follows typical Protestant principles such as optimal visibility and audibility of the preacher. The breadth and orientation of the church differs from the mostly elongated Catholic church buildings of the classical modern. On the wall above the pulpit is a 1937 fresco painting with angels by Paul Bodmer . In 1991 the artistic furnishings were supplemented by a fresco by Sven Knebel; it is titled Prism .

The organ and choir gallery are located above the pulpit between the church interior and the main facade, almost invisible from the nave through wooden bars. Organ and choir can hardly be seen during church services and concerts, but can be heard, which enables special dramaturgical effects to be achieved. The hollow wooden bars between the gallery and the ship as well as the wooden cladding of the interior walls and the coffered ceiling ensure remarkable acoustics.

organ

On the gallery is a three-manual organ with an equally baroque as romantic embossed disposition that 42 sounding registers includes. It was built in 1937 by Kuhn Organ Builders . The instrument has electric action and has 42 stops on two manuals and a pedal . In 1950 there was a revision and a partial re-intonation by Orgelbau Ziegler, Uetikon. In 1982 Orgelbau Goll, Lucerne, carried out a general overhaul. On this occasion various changes were made, including repairing the windchest, regulating magnets and installing a new motor. The mixture in the first manual and the plein-jeu in the third manual were also changed, the trumpet 8 'was built into the pedal as an additional register, the lengths were narrowed by a semitone and the organ was re-voiced.

Disposition:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Quintatön 16 ′
Gemshorn 8th'
Flauto major 8th'
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 4 ′
octave 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture VI – VIII 2 ′
Scharff IV 1'
Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Suavial 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 4 ′
Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
octave 2 '
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cymbel III-IV 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
diapason 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salizional 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
octave 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Plein jeu V – VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Basson 16 ′
oboe 8th'
Trompette harmonique 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Dacked bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal 16 ′
Dumped 8th'
Praestant 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Mixture IV-V 2 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'

Project KunstKlangKirche

In 2012, the parish decided to cease to be a pure parish church for financial reasons. In March 2014 the parish assembly decided to implement the art-sound-church project, which had emerged from a competition and which also includes an organ center , in the church . The prerequisite was securing the financing until September 2015. Due to the limited financial resources, the parish and the sponsors of the KunstKlangKirche agreed at the end of 2015 to extend the use of the church to a trial phase that was financed with little funds until the end of 2017. The connection between art and spirituality through music, literature, exhibitions, interreligious and ecumenical dialogue and dance.

gallery

  • Main facade

  • Interior view with gallery

  • Interior view from the gallery

  • Lobby

  • organ

  • Organ console

See also

literature

  • Art guide through Switzerland - Volume 1. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2005, p. 787.
  • Building Department of the City of Zurich (Ed.): Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006.

Web links

Commons : Kirche Auf der Egg (Zurich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ETH Zurich: Pages 293-301, New Church Wollishofen. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Information on YouTube. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, pp. 84–86.
  4. ↑ Ref. Church on the Egg Zurich-Wollishofen. Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein, accessed on August 2, 2015.
  5. ↑ Kuhn organ church on Egg Wollishofen. Organ directory Zurich, accessed on October 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ [1] , “Fight against church death” in the daily newspaper of the city of Zurich from November 24, 2015
  7. ↑ [2] , project page KunstKlangKirche, description of the pilot project, accessed on February 15, 2016
  8. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger of September 27, 2016, p. 15.

Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '31.7 "  N , 8 ° 31' 56.2"  E ; CH1903:  682,647  /  244050