St. Anna Church (Opfikon-Glattbrugg)
The St. Anne's Church , the Roman Catholic parish of Opfikon -Glattbrugg, the north to the city of Zurich adjacent and near the Zurich airport is located.
history
The parish of Maria Lourdes (Zurich-Seebach) bought the building site for the future St. Anne's Church in the center of Glattbrugg in 1948. Thanks to collection campaigns and donations, the foundation stone for the church was laid on October 30, 1955 . This was built according to plans by the architect Kopf, St. Gallen in 1955/1956. The Chur bishop Christian Caminada consecrated the St. Anna Church on October 28, 1956 in honor of St. Anna . He raised the area of Opfikon-Glattbrugg on December 16, 1956 to an independent parish. Since 1971 the parish has been part of the priestly community «Oratory of St. Philipp Neri »supervised.
In 1974 the parish center built under the architect Manuel Pauli was inaugurated. In 1981/1982, the church was isolated from the noise of planes taking off at the nearby Kloten Airport according to plans by the Zurich architect Rudolf Mathys, and the interior was completely redesigned. On June 6, 1982 the Bishop of Chur, Johannes Vonderach , inaugurated the renewed church.
The parish of St. Anna, with 5,153 members (as of 2017), is one of the largest Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Building description
Church tower and exterior
The large roof of the church is drawn down so that the vertical church walls appear quite low. Since the redesign, access to the church is no longer from the busy Walisellerstrasse, but from the inner courtyard, which is formed by the church and the parish center.
The free-standing tower houses four bells that were cast by the H. Rüetschi bell foundry , Aarau. The bell tower is on Walisellerstrasse. Its shape reveals that the church is older than it looks from the outside and especially from the inside (since its redesign in 1981/1982).
Interior of the church
The large church room serves as a church service hall for the congregation, the attached chapel invites you to quiet prayer. The pentagonal church space groups the benches around the chancel and thus implements the idea of a meal community of people and priests.
A second church was built into the original church from 1956 in 1981/1982. The reason was the disturbing aircraft noise that entered the poorly insulated church. The architect Rudolf Mathys solved the problem by building a second roof inside the church, which hides large sound bodies standing on pillars and beams that absorb the noise of the aircraft. The walls of the church were also insulated.
The stained glass windows on the south-western church wall come from the church's first furnishings. The chancel was located in front of these windows until 1982, which during evening services had the annoying side effect that the worshipers were blinded by the evening light. During the redesign in 1982, slightly tinted soundproof windows were therefore placed in front of the church window and the chancel was moved to the south-eastern church wall. Also in 1982 the chapel with the prayer niche was built.
Interior
The ideal center of the church is the glass tabernacle with the ciborium . The tabernacle is clearly visible from every corner of the church and from the chapel. It was let into a wall niche to the left of the altar and is flanked by the menorah , which also serves as an eternal light . The candelabra of the Easter candle was created in the same design language as the menorah, but unlike the menorah, it does not have seven arms, but rather condenses into a bud at the top. The menorah and the candelabra for the Easter candle were created based on designs by Hans Schwegler, pastor of St. Anne's Church from 1971 to 1982 and parish administrator since 2001.
Following the example of the All Saints Church (Zurich-Neuaffoltern) , with the new building of which the Constitution on the Holy Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council was consistently implemented for the first time in the Diocese of Chur, the baptismal font is also located in the St. Anne's Church in the front part of the Church, near the chancel. The choir wall protruding towards the baptismal font indicates that in earlier times access to the church was reserved for the baptized.
The baptismal font, altar, ambo and tabernacle all have a braided ribbon as a common design feature , the motif of which adorned the synagogue in Capernaum from the 4th century and a door wing of the Chur cathedral from Carolingian times. This braided ribbon expresses on the one hand the connection between the Christian church and Judaism and on the other hand shows the affiliation of the St. Anna Church to the diocese of Chur.
On the back wall of the church there is a Romanesque body on a modern wooden cross. The names of all the deceased in the parish have been listed next to this crucifix since 1982. Since the Opfikon-Glattbrugg cemetery is not in the immediate vicinity of the Catholic Church, the names of the deceased on the church wall express the community's attachment to its former members.
The font, altar, ambo, tabernacle, sedia for the ministry , wall lights, Apostle candles and the door handles at the church entrances were designed by the architect Rudolf Mathys. The sculptures (door handles with the symbols of the four apostles, baptismal font, altar, ambo, sedia) were made by Paulo Rossi, Zurich. The bronze works of art were made by Peter Zollinger, Bischofszell . The square door handles, as well as the whole floor of the church were from warehouses - limestone made of a material that comes from a nearby quarry. This is intended to give expression to local ties in the church design.
The most recent artistic element of St. Anne's Church are the four stained glass windows that show the story of creation . The individual windows show the creation of the universe , the world, animals and humans. In 2008 these glass windows were created by Jan January Janczak , Wil SG .
Chapel and prayer niche
On the left side of the choir wall, behind the tabernacle, is the chapel. In the rear of the chapel there is a prayer niche, which has two artistic elements. On the one hand, there is a narrow church window that was created by the artist Jan January Janczak on the occasion of the inauguration of the church in 1982 and takes up the Magnificat . The other work of art here is a polychrome framed, wooden carved Anna herself from the 18th century. This sculpture represents the relationship between the church and its patroness St. Anna and is intended to invite personal prayer.
Winged altar
Probably the most striking design element of St. Anne's Church is the winged altar on the church wall behind the altar area. It comes from the contemporary Polish artist Jan January Janczak. With his work created in 1982 as a triptych , he takes up the tradition of medieval church art and brings it into the modern age .
The altar as a whole addresses the history of salvation . The middle panel shows Jesus crucified in the splendor of his resurrection and a Pietà in the lower panel . Depending on the time of the church year , the winged altar presents different motifs: In Advent , King David in the Kingdom of Peace is shown on the left and the healing of the crooked woman on the right. During Lent , the panel on the left deals with the rescue of the Red Sea , the right one with Jacob's fight and dream. During the rest of the church year, the three pictures of Advent are supplemented by a picture on the far left, which shows Babel and the calling of Abraham , and a picture on the far right, which shows the breaking of bread according to Lk 24 : 13-35 EÜ and Acts 2.42 –47 EÜ thematized.
organ
Today's organ dates from 1971 and was made by the organ building company Gebrüder Späth , Rapperswil SG . The instrument has 24 registers , which are divided into two manuals and pedal. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, crescendo , storage tongues HW, SW, Pd
literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. Opfikon-Glattbrugg 2002.
Web links
- Description of the St. Anna Church on the website of the Catholic parish St. Anna in Opfikon-Glattbrugg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. pp. 2–24.
- ↑ Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. pp. 25–28.
- ^ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Annual report 2017. p. 83.
- ↑ Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. P. 7.
- ↑ Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. p. 4.
- ↑ Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. pp. 8 and 32.
- ↑ Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. P. 10.
- ↑ Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. P. 32.
- ↑ Catholic parish Opfikon (ed.): St. Annakirche Opfikon Glattbrugg 1956 - 1982 - 2002. pp. 15-21.
- ↑ orgelddokumentationszentrum.ch: Organ in Glattbrugg ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seen July 5, 2013.
Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '1.6 " N , 8 ° 34' 5.3" E ; CH1903: 685 209 / 254277