Reformed Church Bremgarten

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Reformed Church Bremgarten

The Reformed Church Bremgarten is the Reformed church in the small town of Bremgarten in the Swiss canton of Aargau and belongs to the Reformed parish Bremgarten-Mutschellen.

history

prehistory

In 1529, Bremgarten was the first community in Freiamt to join the Reformed faith. The city pastor Heinrich Bullinger, father of Zwingli's successor of the same name , was a strong advocate of the Reformation. With the defeat of the people of Zurich in the Battle of Kappel , however, the three-year reformed phase in Bremgarten ended and the city became Old Believer again and Bremgarten remained purely Catholic for three centuries. Due to industrialization and the increased mobility that came with it, the first Reformed people came to Freiamt in the 19th century. First of all, the Reformed from Bremgarten had to go to Dietikon or Ottenbach if they wanted to attend a Reformed church service, and there was no possibility for the children to attend religious or confirmation classes.

When the new Zürcherstrasse was being built by prisoners in the early 1840s, the Reformed people celebrated a service every Sunday, which was also attended by the Reformed from Bremgarten and the surrounding area. After the road was completed in 1842, this possibility no longer existed and from 1845 the Reformed organized themselves into a church cooperative. At their request, the Bremgarten city council left the Spittelkirche at Obertor to the Reformed church for the services. In 1846 the first Reformed pastor since Bullinger took up his post in Bremgarten. At the instigation of the Catholic parish office, however, the city council forbade the pastor from any official acts . Only a complaint to the government council allowed the reformed rectory to carry out casualies. The church cooperative was then elevated to a parish in 1874 and in 1885 a parsonage was bought with the support of the Protestant Church Aid Society , which was paid off in 1889. So the building up of a fund for church building could begin.

Building the church

In 1894, a building site on Lunkhoferstrasse was acquired for 6,514 francs. The Reformation collection , which the Reformed Church of Bremgarten benefited from in 1898 and brought in 38,000 francs, enabled construction work to begin. The planned construction costs of 105,000 francs were covered by the Reformation collects, the building funds of 22,000 francs, beneficiaries of 20,000 francs and community collects of 15,000 francs. The church, which according to the final bill cost CHF 104,626.30, was inaugurated on September 30, 1900.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '1.3 "  N , 8 ° 20' 43.2"  E ; CH1903:  668509  /  244785