Reformed Church Zurich-Unterstrass
The Zurich-Unterstrass church is an evangelical-reformed church building in the Zurich district of Unterstrass .
history
The area of Unterstrass was originally ecclesiastical after the community of Grossmünster and from 1614 after the Predigerkirche Zurich . But it was in the 14th century on the Spanweid an infirmary with associated St. Moritz Chapel, which was first mentioned in 1442. From 1734 public services were also carried out in the chapel. In 1894 the chapel, previously owned by the City of Zurich, was demolished.
The population of Unterstrass rose from 490 to 3,342 between 1812 and 1880. In 1882 the assembly of the parishioners from Unterstrass decided to commission the Basel architect Paul Reber to build a new church. The church building was completed within two years and was consecrated in 1884. In 1893 the parish got its independence. 1910–1911 the church was rebuilt by the architect Ch. Conrad. The side galleries were continued up to the pulpit wall, and the side stairwells and the instruction room were added to the northeast. In 1933 the Pauluskirche (Zurich) was consecrated and the parish of Unterstrass was divided. 1962–1963 the church was rebuilt by the architects Max Schucan and Max Ziegler into a transverse church and from 1983–1985 it was connected to the rectory through the construction of a new parish center. 1996–1997 under Peter Fässler the renovation of the church tower and west facade.
description
Exterior and bells
The church rises above a park, visible from afar, and can be reached through a monumental flight of steps . The mighty front tower is held in a filigree neo-Gothic style. Particularly striking the with is pinnacles and crabs decorated spire that unusual in Reformed churches style of Gothic cathedrals recalls. The façades of the church are characterized by high tracery windows and buttresses crowned with pinnacles . The church can be entered through a sign that was added later .
The tower has a five-part bell:
| number | Weight | volume | Caster | Casting year | inscription |
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| 1 | 2,053 kg | of' | Jakob Keller, Zurich-Unterstrass | 1884 | Glory to God on high, peace on earth and a pleasure for men. |
| 2 | 1,039 kg | f ' | Jakob Keller, Zurich-Unterstrass | 1884 | Country, country, country, hear the word of the Lord. |
| 3 | 600 kg | as' | Jakob Keller, Zurich-Unterstrass | 1884 | Pray and work. |
| 4th | 400 kg | b ' | H. Rüetschi AG, Aarau | 1931 | Let the children come to me. |
| 5 | 249 kg | of' | Jakob Keller, Zurich-Unterstrass | 1884 | Fall for the gentleman on your way and hope in him, he will do it. |
Interior
The interior, carefully composed by the architect Paul Reber, followed the stipulations of the Eisenach regulation . The longitudinal interior had continuous side galleries and a pulpit wall with a dominant pulpit decorated with neo-Gothic fragments , above which the organ gallery was located. The interior and exterior design of the church form an important early work by Paul Rebers and already point to his later work in the spirit of the Wiesbaden program .
1962–1963 the interior was heavily purified and redesigned as a transverse church . The liturgy zone with pulpit and communion table was moved to the western long side of the church, while the other four sides are dominated by a horseshoe-shaped gallery resting on undecorated columns. On the north side, i.e. at the old location, a new organ was installed by Metzler Orgelbau in 1963 . The church is decorated with abstract colored glass windows by Franz Karl Opitz . The windows on the west side from 1965 are by Franz Karl Opitz and are characterized by biblical symbols and scenes with reference to the parables of Christ . In 1997 Opitz created further colored glass windows for the windows on the east side under the title Penetration . These windows are characterized by dynamic colored ribbons in black, yellow, red, green and blue, which among other things stand for the Pauline basic values of Christianity - faith, love and hope ( 1 Cor 13:13 LUT ). Only one of the original, neo-Gothic colored glass windows has been preserved in the stairwell to the gallery.
organ
In 1889 a mechanical cone chest organ was built for the church Unterstrass by Carl Theodor Kuhn , Männedorf. This instrument had 24 stops on two manuals and a pedal . In 1911, a new, pneumatic membrane shutter organ was built by Carl Theodor Kuhn, Männedorf, with 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The first organ was moved to the Catholic Church of St. Sigismond in St-Maurice VS. In 1963 the present organ of the church was built. It is a mechanical organ from Metzler, Dietikon with 31 registers on three manuals and a pedal. In 1997 the revision was carried out by the builder company.
Disposition of the organ:
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- Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : register crescendo , 3 typesetting combinations , tutti, storage tongue register
Community center
The former sacristy at the north end of the church leads to the church center from 1985, which is partly under the church. Only a deliberately cautiously built connecting wing to the rectory with a wide segmented arched window is visible from the surface. The new building was planned by Hans Howald .
See also
literature
- Walter Baumann: Unterstrass. Farming village. City quarter. Parish. Zurich 1985 (Festschrift for the inauguration of the church center)
- Roland Wuillemin: Church Zurich-Unterstrass. Zurich, 2008.
- Michael D. Schmid: transversely built. Querkirchen in the canton of Zurich , Stutz Medien, Wädenswil 2018, ISBN 978-3-85928-200-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, p. 64.
- ↑ Bells on YouTube. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Section Ref. Kirche Zürich Unterstrass, organ from 1963. Retrieved on August 1, 2015.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '14.5 " N , 8 ° 32' 30.8" E ; CH1903: 683 303 / 249089