Parish Church of the Holy Spirit (Suhr)
The Heiliggeist parish church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Suhr and Gränichen in the canton of Aargau . With its original concrete architecture, it is an important building tool of modernism in Switzerland.
history
In the old parish church of Suhr the Evangelical Reformed parish has been celebrating the Lord's Supper since the Reformation . The Catholics who came to Suhr in the 19th century initially belonged to the large Roman Catholic parish of Aarau , which was re-established in 1803 after the formation of the Canton of Aargau . In 1882 the first Roman Catholic parish church was built in Aarau.
Roman Catholic services have been held in Suhr since 1937. The community made the community hall available for this. In 1953, the new Roman Catholic parish of Suhr-Gränichen built the parish hall on Tramstrasse in Suhr and employed its first pastor, Xaver Bürgi. The construction of the new church, which Bishop Franziskus von Streng consecrated on April 30, 1961, lasted from 1958 to 1961 .
Building
The church building is designed according to the plans of the architect Hanns A. Brütsch from Zug, who played an important role in the development of modern church architecture in Switzerland.
A boldly curved, prestressed concrete ceiling, which the Zurich engineer Emil Schubiger had planned, rests over the square room of the church. The ceiling, which apparently hangs freely above the room, looks particularly light because it rests on both long sides and next to the choir wall above high glass windows, which reproduce a design by the church painter Ferdinand Gehr in strong colors . The stained glass selected after a competition show the Whitsun event and the stay of Moses with his people in the desert.
The organ of the organ building company Kuhn AG in Männedorf, inaugurated in 1975, stands on the gallery, which protrudes far into the church interior . The altar, ambo, pulpit and tabernacle pedestal were designed by the sculptor Albert Schilling , who is considered to be the innovator of sacred sculpture, from white limestone from Laufen. Schilling also designed the bronze cross that stands on a high shaft behind the altar.
The sculptor and church artist Josef Rickenbacher from Steinen SZ, who had deepened his training with Albert Schilling, created a figure of Our Lady with Child, the front decoration of the tabernacle and the cover of the baptismal font .
The church tower stands free next to the parish hall and the church building. It is 30 meters high, has a tower clock and carries five bells that were cast in 1883 in the H. Rüetschi bell foundry for the old Catholic parish church in Aarau. On December 10, 1960, the school children from Suhr pulled the bells on the tower.
Appreciation
The Catholic parish church Heiliggeist is listed in the federal inventory of protected cultural assets in Switzerland as an object of national importance.
Web links
- Building description on the website of the Roman Catholic parish Suhr
- Parish church Heiliggeist (Suhr) in the inventory of the canton Aargau
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '38.9 " N , 8 ° 4' 43.8" E ; CH1903: six hundred and forty-eight thousand three hundred forty-nine / 247601