St. Antonius (Hirzel)

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Church of St. Anthony
View from the south

The Church of St. Antonius is the Roman Catholic parish church of Hirzel in the canton of Zurich . It is consecrated to the monk's father and abbot Antonius the great .

history

prehistory

After the Battle of Hirzel in the Old Zurich War in 1443, a chapel was built in Hirzel, which was dedicated to St. Niklaus von Myra . It stood a little below today's Reformed Hirzel Church, probably in the garden of the old Bürglerhaus and was first mentioned in a document in 1491. This chapel was a branch church of Horgen , the collature was at Fraumünster Zurich. After the Reformation in Zurich from 1523, Catholic worship was banned in Zurich's subject areas. The medieval chapel was henceforth used for Reformed church services. After the current Reformed Church was built in 1616–1618, the old chapel fell into disrepair. In 1766 the remains of the medieval church were removed.

Development and construction history

For the first time since the Reformation, due to the Edict of Tolerance of 1807, the celebration of Catholic services was permitted, but locally limited to the city of Zurich . The freedom of settlement and religious freedom of the Helvetic Republic and later of the Swiss federal state founded in 1848 enabled Catholics from central and eastern Switzerland , but also from neighboring, Catholic countries, to settle in the canton of Zurich and look for work here. In the agricultural area of ​​Hirzel, Catholic workers moved in, who from 1865 had the opportunity to attend Catholic services in the Horgen mission station . In 1860, 29 Catholics were registered as residents in Hirzel. That number rose to 112 in 1881. In 1923 Hirzel was looked after by the newly founded parish in Schönenberg . On December 3, 1933, the first Catholic mass in Hirzel since the Reformation took place in the Hirzel Church classroom . From then on, regular Sunday services took place in Hirzel. As the number of Catholics continued to grow in the following 20 years, a first pastor was sent to the village in 1944 and Hirzel was appointed parish rectorate. From 1944 to 1946 there was a first emergency chapel in the Rothus . The church building fund for Hirzel, which was opened in 1927, enabled the purchase of a building site in 1941. On this, in the years 1946–1947, with the work of the Catholic population, a first own church and rectory were built. On July 1, 1949, the Bishop of Chur , Christian Caminada Hirzel appointed an independent parish. Although the church became too small for the steadily growing Catholic parish in the following decades, no new building could be built for financial reasons. A building commission was only set up in 1978, in 1985 an area adjacent to the site of the old church was purchased and in 1988 an architecture competition was announced. The Dorfchile project by architect Egon Dachtler, Horgen was chosen as the winner and further elaborated. On September 9, 1990 the foundation stone was laid by Gebhard Matt on behalf of the diocesan bishop Wolfgang Haas . On September 8, 1991, the church and the parish center were consecrated by the Abbot of Einsiedeln , Georg Holzherr .

The parish of Hirzel-Schönenberg-Hütten, with its 1,402 members (as of 2017), is one of the small Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.

Naming

Contrary to what is often the case with the newly built Catholic churches in the canton of Zurich, Hirzel's first Catholic church was not consecrated to the patron of the medieval church in 1946 , but to Antonius the Great, who is considered the patron of the peasants. The certificate in the cornerstone of the second church, which was built in 1990, says: “With the consecration of the new church in the name of St. Anthony Abbot, we express our gratitude to our ancestors. Most of them farmers, entrusting themselves to the protection of their patron, built up the parish community in this agricultural area. ”However, the commemorative publication from the consecration of the parish in 1991 mentions St. Nicholas as the second in addition to St. Anthony Patron of the church, whereby the patronage of the medieval chapel by Hirzel was also taken up.

Building description

Church tower and exterior

The Church of St. Antonius is located at Feldstrasse 2 south of the village center of Hirzel. The hillside location and the adjacent buildings influenced the appearance of the parish center including the church. The architect Egon Dachtler writes: "The closed altar wall, which rises towards the valley, leads over into the integrated tower and allows the large pent roof above the church space to be visible." the visitor enters the foyer of the building at the flanking church tower .

The church tower houses a four-part bell that was cast on January 18, 1991 by the Carl Metz bell foundry in Karlsruhe. On May 26th, the bells were blessed by Dean Martin Kopp and then wound up in the tower.

number Weight diameter volume dedication inscription
1 550 kg 395 mm a 1 Trinity Father, everyone should be one so that the world will believe. Joh 17:21
2 370 kg 810 mm c 2 Mother of God Do what he tells you. Joh 2,5
3 250 kg 720 mm d 2 Abbot Antonius We win a brother so we win God (Antonius)
4th 135 kg 600 mm f 2 children Let the children come to me, do not prevent them! Because people like them own the kingdom of God.

Interior and artistic equipment

inside view

The visitor enters the church via an anteroom. The church service room is a rectangular room, but has a convex bulge on the north wall in which the pipe organ was placed. The church is east- facing and can be enlarged by opening the western wall by the area of ​​a hall. The monopitch roof rests on pillars and its rising shape gives the church interior dynamism. In the upper area of ​​the southern side wall, windows are set in the tradition of a arc of light so that daylight can illuminate the room. The altar area was designed by artist Josef Rickenbacher ; Altar , ambo and baptismal font form a unit with the tabernacle . A statue of Anthony can be found in the church to the right of the church entrance. On the side opposite the church entrance is a statue of the Virgin Mary - a copy of the hermit Black Madonna - which was taken over from the previous church.

organ

Hauser organ from 1992

The organ , created in 1992 by the organ builder Armin Hauser, Kleindöttingen , has a mechanical action with slide chests and a mechanical registry. 13 registers are distributed over two manuals including pedal . The organ was consecrated in a festive service on Christ the King Sunday, November 22, 1992.

I Manual
Bourdon 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Octave (excerpt) 2 ′
Mixture III
Krummhorn 8th'
II manual
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Fifth (excerpt) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
pedal
Sub bass 16 ′
Bass flute 8th'

literature

  • Josef Wyrsch: The Catholic parish and its beginnings. Typescript in the parish archive. Hirzel 1948.
  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
  • Katholische Kirchgemeinde Hirzel-Schönenberg (Hrsg.): Consecration of the church St. Antonius and St. Nikolaus im Hirzel. Hirzel 1991.

Web links

Commons : Antonius Hirzel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 214.
  2. ↑ Catholic parish Hirzel-Schönenberg (ed.): Consecration of the Church of St. Antonius and St. Nikolaus im Hirzel. P. 11.
  3. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 214.
  4. ↑ Document in the cornerstone of the church.
  5. ↑ Catholic parish Hirzel-Schönenberg (ed.): Consecration of the Church of St. Antonius and St. Nikolaus im Hirzel. Pp. 4 and 12-13.
  6. ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.). Annual report 2017. p. 83.
  7. ↑ Document in the cornerstone of the church.
  8. ↑ Catholic parish Hirzel-Schönenberg (ed.): Consecration of the Church of St. Antonius and St. Nikolaus im Hirzel. P. 1.
  9. ↑ Egon Dachtler: Explanations on the construction. In: Katholische Kirchgemeinde Hirzel-Schönenberg (Hrsg.): Consecration of the Church of St. Antonius and St. Nikolaus im Hirzel. P. 7
  10. ↑ Catholic parish Hirzel-Schönenberg (ed.): Consecration of the Church of St. Antonius and St. Nikolaus im Hirzel. P. 4.
  11. ↑ Catholic parish Hirzel-Schönenberg (ed.): Consecration of the Church of St. Antonius and St. Nikolaus im Hirzel. P. 7.
  12. ^ Website of the Hirzel community. Section Catholic parish, churches. Retrieved July 12, 2014.

Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '51.91 "  N , 8 ° 36' 23.15"  E ; CH1903:  688 461  /  two hundred twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and thirty-four