Reformed Church Oberentfelden

Oberentfelden Church

The Reformed Church of Oberentfelden is the village church of the Aargau community of Oberentfelden in Switzerland . It is located near the train station and was designed by Ferdinand Stadler .

history

In Oberentfelden there was probably a church as early as the 10th century, because in 965 Emperor Otto I donated the Endiveld farm and church to the Disentis monastery . In the 12th century, the church set belonged to the Beromünster Abbey , and from 1330 to the Königsfelden monastery . In 1380 it came into the possession of the Hallwyler , who finally sold it to the canton of Aargau in 1807. From 1683 to 1948 Untermühlen also belonged to the parish of Oberentfelden.

The medieval church served the Reformed denomination from 1528. It was destroyed in a village fire in 1601 and replaced by a new building the following year. The late Gothic building had no choirs, had pointed arch windows and a gable roof sloping to the west . The lower tower floor of the burned down church could be reused. In 1857 the parish decided to build a new church because the existing one was in a poor structural condition and too small. According to plans by Ferdinand Stadler , the Schmuziger-Oberlin construction company from Aarau built today's much more spacious church from 1864 to 1866. In 1966 the church was placed under a preservation order. The most recent renovation took place in 2000/01, after hurricane Lothar in 1999 damaged the roof.

On July 18, 2013, the approximately 100 kg and 2.5 m long top of the church tower broke off and fell into the depths.

Buildings and equipment

Interior of the church

Organ on the gallery

The Oberentfeld Church is next to the cemetery and near the train station. It is built in a transitional style between late classicism and neo-Romanesque . The interior has been partly influenced by Art Nouveau since the first renovation carried out in 1911 . The nave resembles a basilica with a high central nave and two lower side aisles separated by round arches. A further round arch separates the nave from the choir .

The 41 meter high church tower is attached to the choir . In addition to the clockwork, there are also five bells that were cast by the Rüetschi company in Aarau in 1932 . The largest has a diameter of 1,575 meters and weighs 2,400 kilograms. The five-part tone sequence is: C ¹ , es ¹ , f ¹ , as ¹ , c ² . In connection with the renovation in 1965, Orgelbau Kuhn from Männedorf installed a new organ . It stands on the gallery and has two manuals , 30 registers and 2036 pipes.

literature

Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I: The districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948, p. 170-171 .

Web links

Commons : Reformierte Kirche Oberentfelden - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Higher power: the top of the church tower breaks off shortly before the burial. Aargauer Zeitung , July 18, 2013, accessed on July 18, 2013 .

47.35694 8.04756Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '25 " N , 8 ° 2' 51.2" E ; CH1903: 646005 / 245300

[1] Higher power: the top of the church tower breaks off shortly before the burial. Aargauer Zeitung , July 18, 2013, accessed on July 18, 2013 .