Reformed Church Thalwil

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Reformed Church Thalwil

The Reformed Church of Thalwil is one of the most important sacred buildings of classicism in Switzerland and is a listed building.

history

The church was built between 1846 and 1847 according to plans by Hans Ulrich Schmid and Ferdinand Stadler . After a devastating fire, the church was rebuilt in 1943-1946, and provided with a new concrete tower.

description

The Thalwil church is designed as a transverse church with the floor plan of a Greek cross . The simple facades are characterized by high arched windows and an entablature with a serrated frieze . The signs are formed by two ionic columns and a simple entablature. The church has two organs , which are located in the choir and on the gallery . The stained glass windows created Max Hunziker 1946th

The church represents an important transition in the Protestant architecture of Switzerland: It is considered the last testimony to the Zurich cross-church type, and with the layout of the Greek cross at the same time anticipates the reformed church building of historicism .

Organs

Kuhn organ

After the destruction of the old Goll organ from 1913 in the Second World War , a new organ with 49 stops and three transmissions was installed in the front of the church nave by the organ construction company Kuhn ( Männedorf )  . The instrument is arranged in the French style . It has mechanical play tractors with Barker machines; the register tractors are pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Quintatön 16 ′
3. Principal 8th'
4th Hollow flute 8th'
5. Gemshorn 8th'
6th Octav 4 ′
7th Reed flute 4 ′
8th. Octav 2 ′
9. Mixture major V-VII 2 ′
10. Mixture minor IV 1'
11. Cornet V 8th'
12. Trumpet 8th'
13. Clairon 4 ′
II Positive C-g 3
14th Suavial 8th'
15th Dumped 8th'
16. Quintatön 8th'
17th Principal 4 ′
18th Flute 4 ′
19th Forest flute 2 ′
20th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Mixture IV 1'
23. Zimbel IV 1 ⁄ 3 ′
24. Krummhorn 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
25th Dumped 16 ′
26th Principal 8th'
27. Reed flute 8th'
28. Salicional 8th'
29 Unda maris 8th'
30th Octav 4 ′
31. Hollow flute 4 ′
32. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. Night horn 2 ′
34. Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
35. Sharp IV 1 ⁄ 2 ′
36. Trompette harmonique 8th'
37. oboe 8th'
38. Clairon harmonique 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
39. Principal bass 16 ′
40. Sub bass 16 ′
41. Gedacktbass (= No. 25) 16 ′
42. Principal 8th'
43. Pointed flute 8th'
44. Gedackt (ext. No. 25) 8th'
45. Octav 4 ′
46. Gedackt (ext. No. 25) 4 ′
47. Reed flute 2 ′
48. Mixture III 4 ′
49. Mixture V 2 ′
50. trombone 16 ′
51. prong 8th'
52. Corno 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Haas organ

The Haas organ on the gallery

The oldest organ, which was originally built in 1865 for the Reformed Church in Thalwil in the organ building workshop of Friedrich Haas and which was sold between 1914 and 1988 in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Bülach) , was bought back and in 1992 again on the gallery of the Reformed Church built-in. Since then, organ concerts for two organs have been held here regularly, which is only possible in a few places. The Thalwiler Haas organ is his last and the only work that has largely been preserved in its original form.

Organists

Hans Vollenweider , Monika Henking (1970–2010) and Gerda Dillmann (since 2010) have worked as organists in the Reformed Church in Thalwil .

literature

  • Art guide through Switzerland - Volume 1 , Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2005.
  • H. Schneider: Voyage of discovery - Reformed church building in Switzerland , Zurich 2000.
  • Michael D. Schmid: transversely built. Querkirchen in the canton of Zurich , Stutz Medien, Wädenswil 2018, ISBN 978-3-85928-200-1 .

Web links

Commons : Reformierte Kirche Thalwil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gerda Dillmann: Organs, Protestant Reformed parish of Thalwil. In: kirche-thalwil.ch. May 19, 1943, accessed April 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Information on the large Kuhn organ
  3. ↑ Portrait of the Haas organ on the website of the Church Information Service of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on April 6, 2018.

Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '24.5 "  N , 8 ° 34' 6.7"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-five thousand four hundred seventy  /  238308