Reformed Church Zurich-Leimbach
The Reformed Church Zurich-Leimbach is an Evangelical Reformed church in the Leimbach district .
history
As early as the Middle Ages, Leimbach owned a small pilgrimage chapel of St. Aegidius . Around 1400 the chapel was owned by the Cistercian monastery of Selnau . During the Reformation in 1524 the chapel went into private ownership and was finally demolished. It was not until 1780 that a prayer house was built again for the inhabitants of the small village, which gave way to a new neo-Gothic building in 1899 because of the construction of the Sihl Valley Railway. 1969 Leimbach became an independent parish. Since the Roman Catholic church Maria-Hilf was to be rebuilt at the same time in Leimbach , the representatives of the two regional churches tried to find a common building site as an expression of the wish for a successful ecumenical movement . Since the land required for this could not be found and the building project of the Reformed Church was already further advanced, the two churches are now a bit apart. The construction of the Reformed Church in Leimbach goes back to the Tabor project by the architect Oskar Bitterli in 1965 and was built from 1969 to 1972 in the modern style.
Exterior
The church is part of a parish center with an approximately rectangular floor plan. The lower floors contain offices, community rooms and a green inner courtyard. A gate under the clock and bell tower leads to an elevated forecourt from which further rooms and the church can be entered. The exposed concrete cube of the church is opposite the bell tower at the opposite end of the forecourt.
Interior
The liturgy zone of the church with baptismal font , pulpit and table for gifts is raised a few steps in the north corner of the square church. A rounded, free-standing concrete wall with an empty cross as a sunk relief completes the north corner. From the south corner, an L- gallery extends over two sides of the church. On the south east gallery is the organ . The lighting is remarkable, which gives the church a special ambience despite its simplicity: The church is illuminated from above through windows in the large, stepped concrete beam ceiling. Incidentally, only the small colored glass windows by Sven Knebel contribute to the lighting of the church.
Among other things, a clock face of the tower clock and some neo-Gothic glass panes with portraits of the reformers Huldrych Zwingli and Martin Luther have been preserved from the old church . These are located in the foyer of the community center. An old bell is on display in the forecourt.
organ
In 1927 a pneumatic pocket organ was built for the old reformed church by Orgelbau Kuhn , Männedorf. This instrument had 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal . In 1971 a new organ was built in the new church by Orgelbau Mühleisen, Strasbourg (F), with 26 stops on two manuals and pedal. In 2005 the instrument was revised by the builder company.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 3 setter combinations , storage tongues and mixtures
Bells
The five-part bell of today's Leimbach church comes from the H. Rüetschi bell foundry and was raised in the tower on June 19, 1971. The bell of the neo-Gothic predecessor church is on a low concrete plinth in the courtyard. It originally came from the Engemer prayer house and was cast on the tone f by the bell founder Jakob Keller in 1888 after the original c bell from 1845 had cracked. The bell placed in the courtyard bears the inscription Faith - Love - Hope . The oldest Leimbacher bell dates back to 1573. It was moved to the first Leimbacher prayer house in 1787 and is now in the Landesmuseum Zurich .
| number | volume | inscription |
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| 1 | A ° | Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory (Mt 6, 13b) |
| 2 | c ' | One is your Master - Christ - but you are brothers (Mt 23, 8b) |
| 3 | e ' | Our faith is the victory that overcame the world (1 Jn 5, 4b) |
| 4th | G' | But be a doer of the word and not only a listener (Jam 1, 22a) |
| 5 | a ' | God is love (1 Jn 4, 8b) |
See also
literature
- J. Jürgen Seidel (ed.): In glass and stone. The colored glass windows and the symbolism in the Reformed Church Zurich Leimbach. Zurich 1999.
- Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. P. 170.
- ^ Parish Maria-Hilf Zurich (ed.): Parish center Maria-Hilf Zurich-Leimbach. Festschrift on the occasion of the inauguration. P. 5.
- ↑ Website zh-kirchenspots.ch section Church ZH-Leimbach, building history. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
- ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein, section Ref. Church Zurich-Leimbach, organ from 1971. Retrieved on August 2, 2015.
- ↑ Website zh-kirchenspots.ch section Church ZH-Leimbach, tower and bells. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '58.2 " N , 8 ° 30' 57.9" E ; CH1903: 681 436 / 243000