St. Agatha (Dietikon)
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The Church of St. Agatha is one of the two Roman Catholic parish churches of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich . It is located in the city center in the immediate vicinity of Dietikon train station .
history
Middle Ages up to the 20th century
From the 8th century, there was a first Christian cult site in Dietikon in the area of today's Basi . A parish church has been documented in the village center of Dietikon since 1089. It is believed that the church of St. Ulrich and Josef was only built towards the end of the 11th century, probably as a branch of the town church of Baden . Several chapels belonged to the church of St. Ulrich and Josef in the 14th century. St. Ulrich and Josef was the mother church of the surrounding communities Glanzenberg (ceded to Weiningen ZH in 1259 ), Killwangen (ceded to Baden in 1319), Spreitenbach , Urdorf and Geroldswil . As recently as 1489, St. Ulrich was named as the first titular saint in documents for the church . After a church fire, the church was rededicated to St. Agatha . St. Joseph remained the patron saint of the church. The patronage of the church of Dietikon was given to the Wettingen monastery in 1257 by Rudolf von Habsburg together with the patronage of the Spreitenbach and Urdorf branches . When the Wettingen monastery adopted the Reformed faith in 1529 , the pictures and altars were removed from the church and a pulpit was placed in the choir in the St. Agatha Dietikon church, which belongs to the Wettingen monastery . After the Battle of Kappel in 1531, the Catholic towns enforced the reintroduction of the Catholic faith in Wettingen Monastery. In 1532 the altar in the church of St. Agatha Dietikon was put up again in the church, but a Reformed minority remained in Dietikon. The Church of St. Agatha was awarded to both denominations by the State Peace Act . The rectory was also initially inhabited by a Reformed and a Catholic priest. However, the reformed pastor soon withdrew to Urdorf, which had completely converted to the new faith. The appointment of the Catholic and the Reformed pastor was made by the Abbot of Wettingen, to whom the City of Zurich presented a list of three from which he had to choose. Even before the Wettingen monastery was abolished in 1841, patronage was transferred from the canton of Aargau to the canton of Zurich in 1838 . When the Helvetic Republic was dissolved in 1803 , the canton of Zurich received the two Catholic communities Rheinau ZH and Dietikon through mediation . The parishes there were - from 1863 also with the parish of St. Peter and Paul in Winterthur - the only ones recognized under public law in the otherwise Reformed canton of Zurich. This special situation only changed in 1963 as part of a referendum through which the Roman Catholic Church was recognized throughout the Canton of Zurich.
From the 20th century
End of the simultaneous relationship
The construction of the Spanish Brötli Railway and the subsequent industrialization resulted in a rapid increase in the population of Dietikon. The old simultaneous church therefore became much too small for both the Catholic and the Reformed congregations. Also, for various reasons, more than two services on Sunday morning were not possible, so that the space available brought the Bishop of Chur , Georg Schmid von Grüneck to the statement at the company address on All Saints' Day in 1911: "Use all your strength to get out of this sardine can". In the 1910s, the end of the simultaneous relationship was therefore sought by both parishes, but without being able to reach an agreement with the other parish. It was also not clear for a long time which of the two parishes would keep the old church. On both sides, money was collected for the construction of a new church of their own and a search was made for suitable building land. After years of negotiations, an estimate of the shares of the two parishes in the old Simultankirche was made in 1918. Since the Catholic furnishings were more extensive, their proportion in the old church was greater. At a vote by the Reformed parish on January 23, 1921, its members decided with 78 out of 120 votes to accept the Catholic parish's offer to buy out. On September 13, 1925, the Reformed Christians held their last service in the old Simultaneous Church and went to the consecration of the newly built Reformed Church.
New church building
At the beginning of the 1920s, the Catholic building commission announced an architecture competition, from which the commission shortlisted three projects, which came from the renowned church architects Adolf Gaudy (Romanshorn), Anton Higi (Zurich) and Joseph Steiner (Schwyz). Father Albert Kuhn (Einsiedeln) and the architects Siegwart (Aarau) and Scheyer (St. Gallen) examined the projects and recommended that Gaudy carry out the design. 192 of 224 eligible voters approved this construction project at the parish assembly on December 14, 1924. Since the new church was to have about twice the area of the old simultaneous church, the old Dietikon cemetery had to be cleared through exhumation work. Foundation work began in October 1925 while the old church continued to operate within the new foundations. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new St. Agatha church took place on October 26, 1925 . On Ash Wednesday , February 17, 1926, the last service took place in the old church. On the same day, the interior of the old church was transferred to a wooden emergency church , and the old church was subsequently demolished. On March 5, 1926, the old church tower was blown up . On September 11, 1927, was ordained the new St. Agatha's Church held by diocesan Bishop Georg Schmid of Grüneck. In 1939–1940, the parish hall was built on Tramstrasse . Between 1976 and 1977 the St. Agatha church was renovated according to plans by the architect Felix Schmid, Rapperswil. The requirements of the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council were also definitely implemented. The folk altar , the ambo and the baptismal font were made from Veronese marble by Albert Wider, Widnau SG. In the side aisle to the left of the choir a working day chapel was built with a tabernacle, altar and cross for 40 people. A confessional room was also newly created in place of the right-hand chapel on the eastern front of the church. The baptistery on the left was converted into the Marienkapelle. The sacristy was also overhauled and refurbished. On March 27, 1977 the renewed church was consecrated by Bishop Johannes Vonderach . 1989–1991 the extension of the old club house to today's parish center St. Agatha took place. 1996–1997 on the 70th anniversary of the consecration of the church, the inside of the church was cleaned and the tower renovated.
Daughter parishes
In the 20th century the parish of St. Agatha was the mother parish of three parishes: The areas of Oberurdorf and Schlieren , which belonged to Heilig Kreuz Zürich-Altstetten from 1900 onwards , were temporarily added to St. Agatha Dietikon from 1955 to 1960, until Brother Klaus Urdorf and then St. Josef Schlieren were established as independent parishes. Since in 1968 15,000 Catholics lived in Dietikon and the parishes of Geroldswil, Oetwil and Fahrweid-Weiningen, which at that time belonged to the Catholic parish of Dietikon, the aim was to found two more parishes within Dietikon, of which only one was realized. The establishment of a parish St. Ulrich , which would have had the original patron of the church St. Agatha as church patron, did not materialize. This church would have stood at today's Schützenstrasse 2-8 in the Breiti district in the west of Dietikon. The second parish of the city of Dietikon, on the other hand, was established in the east of the city in the Schönenwerd district, the parish of St. Josef. On the occasion of the inauguration of the newly built church on October 19, 1968, the area was raised to parish rectorate and on September 3, 1972 it was made an independent parish, separated from St. Agatha. A church building association had already been founded in Geroldswil in 1956, with the money and church taxes received since the Catholic Church was recognized under public law in 1963 in the 1970s. In 1972 the church of St. Johannes was consecrated in the newly built center of Geroldswil . By episcopal decree, Geroldswil, Oetwil an der Limmat and Fahrweid were merged into one parish and separated from St. Agatha Dietikon on September 3, 1972.
Catholic institutions in Dietikon
- From 1950 to 1974 there was the St. Antonius Catholic retirement home in Dietikon at Schöneggstrasse 29 . This was closed after the construction of the Ruggacker city retirement home .
- From the end of the 19th century until 1935, the Menzing sisters ran a dormitory for the around 100 Italian-speaking workers at the Syz AG weaving mill .
- The St. Josefs-Heim was founded in Schlieren on June 16, 1902 and moved to Dietikon on Urdorferstrasse in 1913 . It was a home for half and full orphans , for girls and boys. The home was run by the Carmelites DCJ , whose General Motherhouse was in Sittard (Holland). In 1975 the chapel of the St. Josefs home was built. The St. Josefsheim was closed in 2005. The last remaining nuns moved to the St. Joseph house in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart / Germany.
Today's parish and parish
The Church of St. Agatha and the Church of St. Josef have been part of the Dietikon parish since 2014. In 2016, the Dietikon-Schlieren pastoral care room, which had existed since 2003, was dissolved. One of the reasons for the abolition of the pastoral care room is the rapid growth of the resident population in the Limmat Valley. The Catholic parish of Dietikon is the third largest parish in the canton of Zurich with 8,832 members (as of 2017).
Building description
Church buildings until 1926
The parish church of St. Ulrich , mentioned in 1089, stood on the same place where St. Agatha's church is today. This first church was consecrated to the canonized Bishop of Augsburg, who died in 973. The oldest remains of the wall, found in 1926, indicate that the first St. Ulrichs church stood in a southeast-northwest direction, i.e. across the current church. The enlargement of the church to the west the church in later times was faces east . In 1606 the medieval church was renovated, 1658-1659 the church tower, which had a cheese bite roof , was added. The church was enlarged up to 1691 to give the Reformed community more space, as the Reformed from Dietikon, Urdorf, Spreitenbach, Killwangen and Rudolfstetten did not have their own churches and gathered in Dietikon for worship, while the Catholic Christians of these communities via the respective chapels and village churches (with the exception of Urdorf, which had completely converted to the new faith). In the 19th century the church of St. Agatha received neo-Gothic altars, which were manufactured by the Alois Hollenstein company in Wil SG in 1868, and in 1883 a new baptismal font and three glass windows in the choir. In 1874 the church got its organ, an instrument from the organ building company Gebr. Linck in Giengen (Württemberg) with 13 sounding stops. This organ was sold in 1926 after the last service in the old church of St. Agatha in the newly built parish Liebfrauen Hinwil and was in use there until the 1970s.
Disposition of the Linck organ:
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Collective step, step to the swelling of the Physharmonica
On September 3, 1927, the old bells of the church, which was released for demolition, rang for the last time to receive the new bells. The largest bell came from the Johann Jakob Grieshaber foundry in Waldshut. This bell, however, had the year 1658 on the yoke. This fact can be explained by a chronicle of the parish of Urdorf: This bell cracked in 1705 and was then cast over. Due to their shape and inscriptions, the smallest and the second smallest bell can be dated from the 13th to the 14th centuries. After the inauguration of the new St. Agatha Church, the old bell came from Dietikon in the tower of the Catholic Church Thalwil and did its job until 1959. Then the bell foundry H. Rüetschi , Aarau for the Catholic Church St. Felix and Regula (Thalwil ) cast a new bell. The three larger bells were melted down, the smallest was taken to the museum in Dietikon and is now in the abdication hall of the Guggenbühl cemetery in Dietikon.
| number | Weight | diameter | volume | dedication | Casting year |
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| 1 | 850 kg | 122 cm | f sharp 1 | Jesus Christ | 1705 |
| 2 | 600 kg | 100 cm | g sharp 1 | St. Mary | 1410 |
| 3 | 275 kg | 78 cm | h 1 | peace | |
| 4th | 200 kg | 71 cm | d 2 | Angelus |
Today's Church of St. Agatha
Church tower and exterior
The bell tower hides a six-part bell that, like that of the Reformed Church in Dietikon, comes from the H. Rüetschi bell foundry, Aarau. Three of the six bells had to be cast a second time. On September 4, 1927, the bells were consecrated by Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck and then lifted into the tower by the school children.
| number | Weight | volume | dedication | inscription | |
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| 1 | 4400 kg | A. | Christ the King | Christ regnat - Christ imperat - Christ vincit - anno Domini MCMXXVII (= Christ rules - Christ rules - Christ conquers - in the year of the Lord 1927) | |
| 2 | 3200 kg | H | St. Agatha | Ab incendio et quovis malo nos praeservare digneris (= May you protect us from fire and all other evil) | |
| 3 | 1535 kg | d 1 | Mother of God | Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum (= Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you) | |
| 4th | 1300 kg | e 1 | St. Joseph | Ultima in mortis hora filium pro nobis ora (= In our last hour with your son pray for us) | |
| 5 | 950 kg | f sharp 1 | Poor souls | Miseremini mei, saltem vos amici mei (= have mercy on me, at least you, my friends) | |
| 6th | 550 kg | a 1 | Guardian Angel | Observa eum et audi vocem ejus (= pay attention to him and hear his voice) |
Interior and artistic equipment
Architect Adolf Gaudy described the church in the following words: “The nave of the church forms a simple rectangle, to which the semicircular choir is attached to the north , flanked by symmetrical additions for the sacristy and a teaching area. The massive tower with the main portal rises on the south, which is also the main front. This is followed by the side entrances, all with vestibules , and on each side a small Lourdes chapel and a baptistery. The interior of the rectangle of the ship is structured by rows of columns that protrude from the outer wall by the width of the side on each side. The barrel vault rises on these pillars and spans the nave with a top height of 16.50 m. This arrangement gives all seats a clear view of the choir and pulpit. The column architecture continues on the choir arch and in the choir, which gives the room a uniformity and makes it appear large in perspective. The 804 seats in the ship are divided by a central aisle and a cloister, to which the side portals with built-in vestibules lead. The gallery , supported by two columns, offers space for a choir and around 150 seats. "
The altar paintings are by Martin Feuerstein , Munich (1856–1931). On the left side altar the Mother of God is depicted, on the right the Holy Family with St. Joseph , behind the high altar the Ascension of Christ is shown. The images of the apostles on the church vault were made by Augustin Müller, Wil SG (1864–1943). The artist replaced Judas Iscariot with the apostle Paul. The Way of the Cross was created as an encaustic painting by Josef Heimgartner (1868–1939), Altdorf as a copy of a work by Gebhard Fugel. The glass paintings are by FW Zettler (1865–1949), Munich, based on designs by Gebhard Fugel . During the renovation from 1976 to 1977, the people's altar, the ambo and the baptismal font were created by Albert Wider, Widnau SG.
Gallery, detail
Mary Altar
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Joseph Altar
Historical candlestick
Organs
Späth organ 1927–1950
After the church was rebuilt, an organ from Späth Orgelbau was installed on the gallery . It was a pneumatic instrument with a pocket drawer, which had 3 manuals and a pedal. The organ stood in an organ chamber that reached into the tower. Although this organ was technically still in working order, it was replaced by a new instrument in 1950 for musical reasons, in line with contemporary tastes.
Disposition of the Späth organ
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- Normal coupling II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : 4 fixed combinations, 2 free combinations, 4 register choirs, register crescendo , automatic pedal regulation, individual stops for reeds
Metzler organ since 1950
Today's main organ dates from 1950 and was built by Metzler Orgelbau . The instrument has 42 sounding stops, a transmission and an extension to three manuals including a pedal. The action is electric, the registry is electro-pneumatic. The wind chests are slider chests. The organ was overhauled in 1963 and 1994 by Metzler and in 1976 by Bernhard Temrau. In 1999 the organ was expanded, rebuilt and subjected to a complete overhaul by Metzler Orgelbau.
Disposition of the Metzler organ:
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- Normal coupling II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids: general coupling, register crescendo, coupling from crescendo, 2 fixed combinations (f, tutti), 3 free combinations, automat. Pedal, storage reeds, storage mixtures, individual storage for all reeds, except for the oboe in the swell
literature
- Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. New Year's Gazette from Dietikon 1978. Dietikon 1978.
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Pp. 6-9.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 201.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. P. 10.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 201.
- ^ Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck, quoted from: Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. P. 31.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Pp. 30-33.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Pp. 34-39
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Pp. 43-44.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Pp. 62-73.
- ^ Parish website, History section, Church of St. Agatha. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Pp. 52-55.
- ^ Website of the parish of St. Joseph, section history. ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Pp. 58-60.
- ^ Website of the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017 p. 82
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. 11-15.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. 16-17.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. 18-20.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. 18-20.
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Pp. 44-46.
- ^ Adolf Gaudi, in: Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. P. 44
- ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. P. 41.
- ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Section Catholic Church St. Agatha, organ 1927, Dietikon ZH. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
- ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Section Catholic Church St. Agatha, organ 1950, Dietikon ZH. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '18.17 " N , 8 ° 24' 14.5" E ; CH1903: six hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred sixty-nine / 250918