Reformed church Beinwil am See

Ref. Beinwil Church

The Reformed Church of Beinwil is the village church of the Aargau community of Beinwil am See in Switzerland .

history

Beinwil originally belonged to the Lucerne parish of Pfeffikon . After the Reformation had been introduced in Bernese Aargau in 1528 , the city council of Bern allowed the building of a church in Reinach . Until 1932, the Reformed Beinwilers belonged to the Reinach parish, since then Beinwil has been an independent parish.

In 1934, the Lucerne architect Armin Meili , who later became the architect of the Swiss National Exhibition in Zurich in 1939, won first place in an architectural competition for his own church in Beinwil . The church was then built according to Meili's project north of the area of ​​the cemetery that had been built a few years earlier and consecrated in 1935. At that time the church had 376 seats in the nave and a hundred on the gallery . The organ with 25 registers came from Orgelbau Kuhn and the bell in the tower was equipped with five bells by H. Rüetschi .

Web links

Commons : Reformierte Kirche Beinwil am See  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on the formation of the parish and the church on the website of the parish of Beinwil am See
• Reformed church Beinwil am See in the inventory of historical monuments of the canton Aargau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Competitions . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 103/104 , no. 16 , 1934, pp. 192 ( online at E-Periodica [accessed July 10, 2011]).
2. ^ Reformed church in Beinwil am Hallwilersee: Arch. Armin Meili, Lucerne . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 109/110 , no. 1 , 1937, p. 6-9 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-49080 ( online at E-Periodica [accessed July 10, 2011]).

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '12.3 "  N , 8 ° 11' 58.4"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred fifty-seven thousand five hundred eighty-two  /  235745