Reformed Church Wipkingen
The Reformed Church Wipkingen is the Evangelical Reformed Church in the Wipkingen district of the city of Zurich .
history
The Reformed Church in Wipkingen was built in 1909. A legacy from Salomon Rütschi , a citizen of Wipkingen, entrepreneur and benefactor, made it possible to purchase a piece of land near Oberer Weier in Zurich-Wipkingen. After a long dispute over the building site, the church was built and consecrated in 1909. The old church on the Limmat was demolished because it had to give way to the growing traffic. 1930–1932 the parish hall of Wipkingen was built to complement the church . It was built by the architects Vogelsanger und Maurer . In the residential district Latvians is at the Imfeldstrasse the Church Latvians in which 1954-1955 Max Aeschlimann and Armin Baumgartner Landi style built. In autumn 2009 the parish celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Wipkingen church.
Old church
Wibichinga was on an early medieval trade route. The old church stood on the banks of the Limmat at the river crossing after the confluence of the Sihl and Limmat; where the Viventa technical school is located at the Wipkingerbrücke today. From 881 Wibichinga was a fiefdom of the Fraumünster . Wibichinga as a tithing property of the great minster is first mentioned in 820. A little church in Wibichinga is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1270. The patron saints of the Wipkingen Church were Saints Agnes of Rome and John the Baptist .
People priests from the Grossmünster read the mass, from around 1520 Ulrich Zwingli was also a people priest for Wibichinga. The church was closed during the Reformation in 1524.
In 1601, Wibichinga received permission to renovate the church. There was now a separate cemetery next to the church. From 1601 the parish was a branch of the Grossmünster; the first pastor was Rudolf Lehmann, who opened the Wipking baptismal and marriage register.
The old church in Wipkingen was extensively renovated and enlarged in 1704. The ringing of two bells was replaced by three new bells in 1859. The construction of the rectory in 1864 at today's Hönggerstrasse 76 paved the way for an independent parish.
With the rapid growth of the community and the Zurich-Wipkingen district after the incorporation, traffic noise disrupted the service. It was decided to build a new building in a quiet place. After the solemn inauguration of the new church at Oberer Weier in October 1909, the old church was demolished in March 1910.
New Church
Thanks to a legacy from Salomon Rütschi (1817–1894), a citizen of Wipkingen, entrepreneur and benefactor, the parish was able to purchase a building plot in 1895 near Oberer Weier in Zurich-Wipkingen. The building plans came from the architect Jacques Kehrer . There followed an arduous dispute over the building site. The construction work could only be put out to tender in March 1908. The head of the building commission was Pastor Otto Roth.
Pastor Otto Roth also wrote the certificate, which was walled in at the ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone on August 30, 1908 in a copper box at the foot of the tower about two meters above the ground.
The topping-out ceremony took place in the first week of November 1908. In the following summer, on August 24, 1909, the file insert was locked in the tower ball and placed on top of the church tower. The bell lift with a large village festival took place on Wednesday, October 13, 1909. Pastor Otto Roth led the festival, as well as the inauguration and the consecration service. The church Wipkingen was posted on Sunday, October 31, 1909 inaugurated .
organ
The organ was built in 1965 by the organ building company Kuhn AG (Männedorf). The slider chests -instrument has 43 registers on three manuals and pedal . The action actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electro-pneumatic.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
The bells
The bells of the old church
The oldest known bell in Wipkingen comes from the pre-Reformation period. In the year 1500 the Marienglocke rang on tone E in the village. The angel's greeting adorned the little bell of Mary: "Ave.Maria.gracia.dominus.tecum.MCCCCC."
After the restoration and reopening of the church in 1601, a new bell rang next to the little Marienbelllein with the inscription: "I admonish the community to be Christian and call when danger breaks out."
From 1704, after the major renovation, the ringing consisted of three bells. The smallest was the Marienbell from 1500. Two new bells rang out with it to a ring in C major with the tones C, D and E.
The middle bell with tone D bore the inscription: “Come together, praise the Lord's name” and “Moritz Füssli poured me into Zurich”.
The big bell, tone C, read: "I flowed out of heat and fire, Moritz Füssli in Zurich watered me."
In 1859 a new bell replaces the one from 1704. It again consisted of three bells in G major with the tones G, B and D and a total weight of 2,564 pounds. This bell came from the bell founder Jakob Keller at Milchbuck.
The bell with tone G and a weight of 710 kg bore the inscription: "Glory to God in the highest" and "Come together"
The middle one with tone B and 354 kg: "Peace on earth" and "Praise the Lord's name"
And the smallest rang a D and weighed 219 kg: "A pleasure in people" and "In Eternity Amen".
The bells of the new church
Today's bell ringing from 1909 consists of five bells.
- I. bell: B, 3'509 kg: «O country, country, country! Hear the word of the Lord! "
- II. Bell: des, 2,105 kg: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord!"
- III. Bell: es, 1,440 kg: «Pray and work!»
- IV. Bell: total, 840 kg: "Glory to God on high!"
- V. bell: b, 441 kg: "Peace on earth!"
The Wipkingen church is a listed building and is classified as worthy of cantonal protection.
See also
literature
- Martin Bürlimann, Kurt Gammeter: Bells ringing - From Kilchli to Wipkingen Church . Wibichinga Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523149-2-0
- Martin Bürlimann, Kurt Gammeter: Wipkingen - From the village to the quarter . Wibichinga Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-9523149-0-0
- Franz Bösch: Wipkingen - His churches over time . Roman Catholic Guthirt rectory, Zurich 1983
- Jakob Frei: Wipkingen - then and now . Non-profit organization Wipkingen (Ed.), Zurich 1981
- Conrad Escher, Rudolf Wachter: Chronicle of the community Wipkingen . Orell Füssli Institute, Zurich 1917
- Otto Roth: The new church Wipkingen in Zurich IV . A memorandum published by the Church Building Commission, Zurich-Wipkingen 1910.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Evangelical Reformed Church Community Zurich-Wipkingen ( Memento from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '48.8 " N , 8 ° 31' 39.5" E ; CH1903: 682 211 / 250133