St. Anton (Bauma)
The St. Anton Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Bauma in the Zurich Oberland . It is located in the center of the village on Heinrich-Gujerstrasse . The parish belonging to it is responsible for the places Bauma and Sternenberg ZH .
history
History and naming
The Christian faith first came to the region of today's Zurich Oberland through the Romans . In the Roman fort in Irgenhausen am Pfäffikersee , the foundations of the region's first Christian church can still be seen today. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Christian faith came a second time by the monks Gallus and Columban in the Eastern Switzerland . From the hermitage of St. Gallus, the monastery of St. Gallen emerged from the year 719 , which already owned land in 741 in Bäretswil and since the 9th century in Bauma. The medieval church of Bauma was used for Reformed church services in the course of the Reformation from 1525. In 1650, today's Reformed Church was built, which was expanded from 1768-1770.
Catholic worship has been banned in the canton of Zurich since the Reformation in Zurich. Only the Edict of Tolerance from 1807 allowed the immigrant Catholics to celebrate Catholic services again, but initially only in the city of Zurich . When the modern Confederation was founded in 1848, freedom of religion and freedom of residence was enshrined in the constitution , so that Catholic communities could be established throughout the Canton of Zurich. In June 1866 , the first Holy Mass since the Reformation was celebrated in the Zurich Oberland in the Pilgersteg inn , which was between Dürnten and Rüti. The Capuchin Fathers of the Rapperswil Monastery had committed themselves to the diocese of Chur to take over pastoral care in the Zurich Oberland. The Catholics who immigrated at that time were mostly poor and lived scattered throughout the region, which made it difficult to establish a Catholic community. In 1874 the St. Margarethenkirche in Wald was consecrated and from 1882 onwards it was run by world priests.
Development and construction history
In 1891, the pastor of Wald rented a place for religious instruction for children in the brewery house in Gublen . From 1892, services were occasionally celebrated here. In 1894 a mission station was founded in Tösstal, with the places for religious instruction and the celebration of church services changing again and again. In 1894, a hall was rented for worship and religious instruction in the Löwen inn in Juckern . The number of the Catholic population in the Tösstal was subject to fluctuations during this time, as the need for workers for the construction of the Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn , for temporary public construction projects, but also the employment situation in the textile industry for Catholic guest workers from Italy and Tyrol. and let them move away again. On May 26, 1902, a piece of land was bought in Bauma for the construction of a Catholic church with an attached rectory. Most of it was the filled up former river bed of the Töss , i.e. gravel soil. The architect Hermann Siegrist, Winterthur built the church in the years 1902–1903. On the Federal Prayer Day in 1903, services were celebrated for the first time in the newly built St. Antonius Church. In the following years the benches, the pulpit and the communion bench, the baptismal font and the high altar table and a tower clock by Jakob Mäder, Andelfingen, came together on the roof turret . In 1905 the church received its Way of the Cross , which was designed by G. Schroff, Waldshut , as well as an organ built by Spaich, Rapperswil . In 1906, the interior of the church was completed with paintings by Joseph Heimgartner, Altdorf on the high altar and on the church ceiling. After 1906, the number of Catholics in the Tösstal fell sharply due to the work situation, so that the continued existence of the parish was in question. However, the Bishop of Chur held on to the parish of Bauma and expanded the parish's boundaries. From 1909, the Bauma mission area included the political communities Bauma, Bäretswil, Sternenberg, Hittnau , Wila , Fischenthal (to Oberhof), Hermatswil from the Pfäffikon community , Schalchen and Breite from the Wildberg community, as well as Ober- and Unterschreizen, Spitzwies, Sitzberg and Hofstetten from the municipality of Turbenthal . In 1915, the rectory was damaged so much that it was feared that it would collapse. The poor building ground, the old Töss bed, soon led to cracks in the church too, which could only be repaired in a makeshift manner due to lack of finances. In 1925 the club hall under the church was expanded and the organ was rebuilt. During the Second World War , additional services had to be held for the war internees in Bauma, Bäretswil and Fischenthal, as the internees were not allowed to leave the assigned location even on Sundays. A sacristy was added and the parish hall was renovated in 1951. As the number of Catholics increased after the Second World War, preparatory work began in 1954 for the extension of the church, which was completed in 1955. In 1956, a steeple was built next to the extended church, into which the bells from the previous roof turret were relocated. On June 1 and 2, 1957, the completed church was consecrated by Bishop Christian Caminada . When the Catholic Church in the canton of Zurich was recognized under public law in 1963, the Catholic parish Bauma was founded, to which the four political communities Bauma, Bäretswil, Fischenthal and Sternenberg belong. In order to adapt the church to contemporary tastes and the requirements of the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council , the church was extensively renovated in 1975, with the paintings also being removed from the walls. In 1977 the new organ was inaugurated. On August 26, 1990, the new bells were consecrated to match the peal of the Reformed Church. In 1994 the church was renovated again, with the benches being split up so that a central aisle was created again. The altar cross, the new candlesticks and the crosses of the apostles underlined the sacred character of the church. In 1996 one of the old bells was placed in front of the church. In 2006 the church tower was renovated.
From 1943 the parish rectorate of Brother Klaus Bäretswil and from 1947 the parish vicariate of St. Gallus Fischenthal emerged from the parish of Bauma. Together with the parish of St. Antonius Bauma, they belong to the Bauma parish. With its 2,396 members (as of 2017), this is one of the smaller Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Bell from 1904
Interior view before 1975
Bell lift 1990
Choir window by Johann Jakob Zemp: Creation
Trinity
Building description
Church tower and exterior
The St. Anton church is located in Bauma on Heinrich-Gujerstrasse in the immediate vicinity of the train station in the center of town. The church from 1903 was added in 1954–1955 and has had a steeple since 1956, which hides a four-part bell. The rectory, in which the parish offices and offices are located, is attached to the church at right angles.
In 1904 the Catholic Church of Bauma received a three-part bell from the Egger bell foundry in Staad . These bells first hung in the roof turret of the church and from 1956 in the newly built church tower. In 1990 these three bells were replaced by a new one. Three of the new bells were cast by the H. Rüetschi bell foundry in Aarau in 1899 and rang in the tower of the Catholic Church of St. Pankratius Hitzkirch until 1990 as part of a larger bell. In 1990 these three bells were brought to Bauma and supplemented by a fourth bell, also newly cast by H. Rüetschi in 1990. This fourth bell has the strike note as.
| number | volume | diameter | Weight | year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ges 1 | 1130 mm | 847 kg | 1899 |
| 2 | as 1 | 970 mm | 528 kg | 1990 |
| 3 | b 1 | 890 mm | 433 kg | 1899 |
| 4th | of the 2nd | 760 mm | 255 kg | 1899 |
Interior and artistic equipment
The first interior decoration was gradually added after the church was built, as there was a lack of money. In 1906, this first arrangement of the church with the paintings of the Holy Trinity on the high altar and the ceiling painting with the Last Supper by the painter Josef Heimgartner from Altdorf was completed. After the Second Vatican Council, a simple wooden altar was erected in front of the high altar. When the church was renovated in 1975, the interior was redesigned. The church received two new choir windows by the artist Johann Jakob Zemp. The popular altar with ambo, tabernacle and baptismal font were aligned with one another according to the liturgical reform and form a unit. In the extension from 1935 there are stained glass windows by Jakob Häne, which were installed in 1958 and depict scenes from the life of the patron saint of the church, St. Anthony of Padua.
organ
The first organ in the church came from the Spaich company, Rapperswil. This instrument was rebuilt in 1925. On November 27, 1977 today's organ , built by the Späth company , was inaugurated. The play and stop action of the abrasive loading -Instruments are purely mechanical. The housing is made of solid oak. Siegfried Hildenbrand, cathedral organist in St. Gallen, provided the project advice, the intonation was carried out by Martin Pflüger.
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literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Catholic parish Bauma (Hrsg.): 100 years Bauma church. Anniversary font. Bauma 2003.
- Liselotte Forster: 70 years Catholic in Bäretswil 1940–2010. Becoming and growing a diaspora parish in the Zurich Oberland. Bäretswil 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Liselotte Forster: 70 years of Catholic Bäretswil 1940–2010. Becoming and growing a diaspora parish in the Zurich Oberland. P. 12.
- ↑ a b Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Ed.): Schematismus. Pp. 190-191.
- ↑ a b c Liselotte Forster: 70 years of Catholic Bäretswil 1940–2010. Becoming and growing a diaspora parish in the Zurich Oberland. Pp. 12-14.
- ↑ a b c website of the parish: From the chronicle of the Church of St. Anton Bauma. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
- ^ Catholic parish Bauma (ed.): 100 years Bauma Church. Anniversary font. P. 5.
- ^ Catholic parish Bauma (ed.): 100 years Bauma Church. Anniversary font. P. 6.
- ^ Catholic parish Bauma (ed.): 100 years Bauma Church. Anniversary font. P. 8.
- ^ Catholic parish Bauma (ed.): 100 years Bauma Church. Anniversary font. P. 9.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. P. 82.
- ↑ Bauma parish archives.
- ^ Catholic parish Bauma (ed.): 100 years Bauma Church. Anniversary font. P. 3.
- ^ Catholic parish Bauma (ed.): 100 years Bauma Church. Anniversary font. P. 5 and 11.
- ↑ On the Späth Orgelbau website: Bauma ZH. Catholic Church. ( Memento from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 5 " N , 8 ° 52 ′ 50" E ; CH1903: 708,909 / 247359