St. Agnes (Erlenbach)
St. Agnes is the Roman Catholic church in Erlenbach in the canton of Zurich . The parish belonging to it is responsible for the places Erlenbach and Küsnacht ZH , where the Catholic Church of St. Georg , which is also part of the parish, is located.
history
History and naming
In the Middle Ages Erlenbach was taxable to the Johanniterhaus Küsnacht , which is why the municipal coat of arms also shows a staff cross, which was originally taken from the coat of arms of the Johanniter . After the Reformation , the rights of the Johanniter Commandery were taken over by the city of Zurich . The medieval church of Küsnacht was St. Agnes , which is why the Catholic Church, which was newly built in the 20th century, is St. Agnes as patroness .
Development and construction history
From the Reformation in Zurich from 1523 until the beginning of the 19th century, the Catholic cult was forbidden in the subject areas of the city of Zurich. It was not until the Edict of Tolerance of 1807 and the right of freedom of establishment of the Helvetic Republic and the Swiss Federal State of 1848 that Catholics from Central and Eastern Switzerland , but also from nearby Catholic countries, moved to the Canton of Zurich and returned to Zurich's municipalities Catholic services were held.
The parish of St. Georg in Küsnacht, founded in 1904, was also responsible for the Catholics of Erlenbach from the start. When the Catholic Church of St. Marien was built in Herrliberg in 1956 , there were plans to add the Erlenbach community to the new parish of Herrliberg. However, these plans were dropped. In 1959, thanks to a private initiative, a building site for a Catholic church was acquired on the Lerchenberg , but in connection with the village center planning, the construction of the Catholic church in the village center was considered. Therefore there was an exchange of land in 1968.
The construction of the Catholic Church was planned on the area of the old village kindergarten . A first concept turned out to be too expensive and was rejected by the Catholic parish of Küsnacht-Erlenbach. In 1971, a project study was awarded to the architects Aebli and Sokalski, whereupon four variants of a possible church building were worked out. The political municipality reserved the right to build buildings for the municipal works under the terrace. The Catholic parish approved the credit for the construction of the further developed preliminary project on January 22, 1974, and the political parish assembly of Erlenbach also approved the part of the project for the municipal works.
On September 1, 1974, the traditional church fair in Erlenbach, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Catholic Church was carried out. The foundation stone was laid on May 25, 1975. On February 29, 1976, the Bishop of Chur , Johannes Vonderach , consecrated the Church of St. Agnes.
The parish of Küsnacht-Erlenbach, with its 5,036 members (as of 2017), is one of the medium-sized Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Building description
Exterior
The Church of St. Agnes is on Seestrasse opposite the Reformed Church in Erlenbach . It is a concrete cube under which the political community has premises for the community works, so that the actual church can be reached at ground level from the higher Schulhausstrasse . The iron sculpture by Silvio Mattioli at the entrance portal is dedicated to St. Agnes. The actual church can be reached via a foyer .
Interior and artistic equipment
The Church of St. Agnes consists of a square room with the sanctuary in the north corner. It is raised from the rest of the church by two steps. The diagonal arrangement of the chancel and the chairs for the church service congregation give the sacred space a dynamic tension. The light is led into the church through skylights. Due to the continuous band of light between the walls and the ceiling, the coffered ceiling of the church seems to "float". The walls are coarse-grained plastered, the light brown wooden elements give the room a warm look. The liturgical furniture of the chancel is designed in simple shapes from the same wood as the wooden elements in the rest of the church.
To the left of the chancel are the crosses of the apostles , to the right of which is an enthroned Mother of God . The access to the weekday chapel is under the organ gallery, the south front of which is designed with a glass window by Johann Jakob Zemp. The glass elements are aligned like rays on the font and thus underline its importance. In the outside area of the church there was originally a fountain in front of the baptismal font in the weekday chapel, which referred to the symbolism of baptism ; the well was dismantled during the renovation of the church.
The tabernacle of the church was attached to the front wall of the weekday chapel with the fish symbol of Christ on the sides. The front of the tabernacle is decorated with five hosts , each of which has an isosceles cross embedded. In the case of the Christ corpus on the wall of the chapel, the actual crucifix is only hinted at.
organ
The Mathis Orgelbau company built the parapet organ for the St. Agnes Church in 1976 .
Disposition of the organ:
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literature
- Karl Lindegger: For the consecration of St. Agnes - Catholic church center Erlenbach. Supplement to the Zürichsee-Zeitung No. 48, February 27, 1976.
- Karl Kuprecht and Walter Imhof: Erlenbach. History of a Lake Zurich community. Erlenbach 1981, pp. 135-137.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Kuprecht and Walter Imhof: Erlenbach. History of a Lake Zurich community. Erlenbach 1981, pp. 135-137.
- ↑ Catholic Church of the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. P. 83.
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '8.9 " N , 8 ° 35' 33.44" E ; CH1903: 687 271 / 239,707