St. Antonius (Wallisellen)
The Church of St. Antonius is the Roman Catholic parish church of Wallisellen in the canton of Zurich . It is at Alpenstrasse 5 . The stained glass windows by the artist Ferdinand Gehr are an essential design element of this church .
history
History and naming
The medieval chapel of Wallisellen was a branch of the parish of Kloten . It was called the Chapel of Our Lady . In 1389 it was handed over to the Wettingen monastery together with the mother church in Kloten from Austria and incorporated into it in 1406. In the course of the Reformation in Zurich from 1523 this chapel in Wallisellen was given to the Reformed Church . In 1704 the reformed parish Wallisellen was founded and separated from Kloten. The medieval church stood below the Alpenstrasse schoolhouse and was replaced by the new Reformed church in 1908 and demolished in 1931.
In the centuries after the Reformation, catholic services were banned in the canton of Zurich. When the daily statute was held in Zurich in 1807 , the so-called Edict of Tolerance came about , which allowed Catholic services for the first time, albeit with a local restriction. In 1833 Catholic services could be celebrated in Fraumünster Zurich. In 1842 the Augustinian Church was made available to the Catholics living in Zurich . When the Zurich Catholics protested against the infallibility dogma on June 8, 1873, the majority of them converted to the newly founded Christian Catholic Church , which meant that those who remained in the Roman Catholic Church had to build a new church. In 1874, the St. Peter and Paul Church in Zurich-Aussersihl was built, which became the mother parish of the city and region of Zurich, to which Wallisellen also belongs. From St. Peter and Paul Zurich-Aussersihl, the parish Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon was established in 1894 and from this in 1902 Maria Frieden Dübendorf , from which the parish Wallisellen emerged in 1927.
Development and construction history
In 1850 the census in Wallisellen recorded 2 Catholics and 3 in the then still independent vineyards. In 1900 their number had increased to 88 and 32 respectively. Since 1906, Catholic religious instruction has been given from the parish of Dübendorf in Wallisellen. In 1920 the number of Catholics had increased to 436, at that time there were 2,237 Protestants and 29 people of different faiths. It became apparent that a separate pastoral care station should be set up for the Catholics in Wallisellen and the surrounding area. On July 16, 1922, the first Catholic mass since the Reformation was celebrated in Wallisellen. The services initially took place in a former herdsman's hut , which served as an emergency chapel and stood on the corner of Alte Winterthurerstrasse and Zentralstrasse . In 1924 the Bishop of Chur , Georg Schmid von Grüneck , set up the parish vicariate Wallisellen and installed a pastor with a local residence. The parish vicariate also included the parishes Bassersdorf , Nürensdorf and Kloten until the mission station Kloten was founded in 1942 . Since the emergency chapel was too small from the start and proved to be unsuitable in the medium term, a collective association was founded in 1922 in order to be able to build a real church. Since the premises of the emergency chapel were terminated on January 1, 1925, a separate chapel had to be built sooner than expected. In the spring of 1926 this chapel including the rectory was built, which was allocated and occupied on June 13, 1926. With the construction activity in the agglomeration of Zurich after the Second World War , more and more Catholics moved to Wallisellen, so that the construction of a real church became a priority. In 1951, a cultural association and a church cooperative were therefore founded. Five architects received project planning contracts, while the parish raised the money for the church building through collection campaigns. On May 27, 1956, the architect Karl Higi presented the plans for the construction of the church that had been approved by the bishop at the parish assembly. This was built next to the existing chapel and rectory. Construction began on November 17, 1956, and on March 16, 1958, the church with the attached sacristy was consecrated by Bishop Christian Caminada . In 1959 the church received its first organ, and in spring 1961 the new bells. 1968–1969 the old chapel was rebuilt so that rooms were created for the young people and for the parish travel office. The parish of St. Michael Dietlikon , founded in 1970, is a daughter parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen, whose area was separated from the parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen. In 1971 the chancel of St. Anthony's Church was redesigned and adapted to the requirements of the Second Vatican Council . 1972–1973 the old rectory was renovated and rebuilt. In the 1980s it became apparent that the old chapel could not provide enough space for parish life, which is why it was decided to build a parish center. This came to stand between the old rectory with its chapel and the church. In order to be able to realize the new building, the sacristy attached to the church had to be demolished. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on March 1, 1990. Together with the construction of the parish center, the interior of the church was also redesigned. On November 22, 1991 the parish center was opened.
The parish of St. Antonius with its 4,536 members (as of 2017) is one of the medium-sized parishes in the canton of Zurich. Together with the parish of St. Michael Dietlikon (including Wangen-Brüttisellen), the parish of St. Antonius belongs to the parish Wallisellen, which with 8,915 members is one of the larger Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Building description
Church tower and exterior
Located on the Alpenstrasse , the St. Antonius Church is northwest of the old rectory and the former chapel. The parish center built in 1990 between the rectory and the church forms a structural connection between the older buildings. The slender, white-painted bell tower rises on the Alpenstrasse and contains a four-part bell. The bells were cast by Karl Czudnochowsky in Erding near Munich on April 14, 1961 and are not bronze bells, but are made of steel. The bell was consecrated on May 7th by Bishop Christian Caminada and raised in the tower by the school youth on May 9th.
| number | Weight | volume | dedication | inscription |
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| 1 | 2000 kg | c | Christ-King | "O Rex Gloriae Christe veni cum pace" = O King of Glory Christ, come with peace. |
| 2 | 1100 kg | it | Maria | "Dear Mary with the child, give us all your blessings!" |
| 3 | 850 kg | f | St. Anthony | "Saint Anthony, you Herald of God, pray for us!" |
| 4th | 600 kg | G | Guardian Angel | "Praise the Lord, all of you his angels!" |
Interior and artistic equipment
From the forecourt of the church you can enter the church through two church portals under the organ gallery. This is a rectangular building with a retracted choir. The wooden structure of the roof gives the room a tent-like shape. Since the St. Antonius Church was built before the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, it was given a contemporary facility, but it was designed for the Tridentine Mass . So the priest celebrated Mass in Latin with his back turned to the people. The tabernacle was set up on the altar . The priest announced the sermon from the pulpit that had been set up on the east side of the altar. For communion, communion pews were placed in front of the chancel, so that it was separated from the pews. When the interior of the church was adapted to the innovations of the Vatican Council in 1971, the communion benches and the pulpit were removed. The goldsmith Willi Buck from Wil SG created a new tabernacle that was set up free-standing on the east side of the altar. Its front showed an ear of wheat and a grape, which referred to bread and wine in the Eucharist . This tabernacle was set up in 1991 in the newly established Marienkapelle in the parish center. Willi Buck also created the ambo , the lectern for the biblical texts. The front section is decorated with the eagle, the symbol of the Evangelist John . In order to underline the unity of the altar and the ambo, it was created from the same marble as the altar, which is around 10 years older. For a medieval corpus, Willi Buck created a wrought-iron cross that was attached to the wall behind the altar. During the renewed renovation of the church in 1990, the ambo, the tabernacle and the wrought-iron cross by Willi Buck were removed and replaced by works by Josef Caminada , Zurich. The formerly black painted altar wall was supplemented by masonry, which takes on the shape of the medieval body. The six-ton altar was also moved as far as the structure of the church allowed. The side altar attached to the western wall was also removed and the statue of the Virgin Mary attached above was moved to the new Lady Chapel. The new tabernacle of the church consists of a glass case, which makes the ciborium visible. The tabernacle rests on metal feet. To the left and right of the tabernacle there are three candlesticks each, which refer to the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle. Josef Caminada created a new ambo for the left side of the chancel, and a new baptismal font was placed on the right . Instead of the old baptismal font at the entrance to the church, a fountain was installed, the square shape of which has an isosceles cross in the water basin. The water flows into the water basin through a spout on each side. During the redesign of the singing gallery for the organ, which was newly built in 2012, structural optimizations were made in the rear area of the church. Since the old stairs to the gallery obstructed the view of the two rear glass windows by Ferdinand Gehr, they were redesigned. At the same time the gallery was extended to the south. In the niche built on the north-west side of the nave, which previously offered space for a confessional , the statue of the patron saint of the church, St. Anthony of Padua , newly created by Toni Walker, was installed in 1991 . When the organ was rebuilt in 2012, the previous base of the statue was replaced by a higher one and the niche was equipped with a new lighting concept, so that the statue of Antonius can be better accentuated.
Stained glass window
The stained glass windows by the Eastern Swiss artist Ferdinand Gehr are an essential design element of the St. Antonius Church . To the left and right of the chancel there are two glass paintings measuring 9 m by 6.40 m, to the left and right of the organ loft there are two more glass windows measuring 6.40 m by 4.10 m and between the two church entrances the smallest glass window with the dimensions 2.10 m by 2.60 m. In total there are over 160 m² of stained glass that Ferdinand Gehr created for this church. In the chancel, Ferdinand Gehr designed the glass windows in non-objective, ornamental, red-flaming forms on white and blue-gray grounds. The resulting waves of color strive towards the altar in between in a colorful and compositional form. The restriction to clear colors with high luminosity is an essential design element of these glass windows. The windows on the rear of the entrance are made up of a mixture of green, yellow, blue-violet and white. The window in the former baptistery shows more intense colors. Above the water, depicted in color and not in an objective drawing, the dove of the spirit appears in the symbolic red of love.
organ
In 1959 the Church of St. Antonius received its first organ . It was an instrument made by the Späth company from Rapperswil, which in 1594 had pipes in 22 sounding registers, distributed over two manuals including a pedal . 1522 pipes were made of metal, 72 pipes were made of wood, two manual keyboards with 56 keys, pedals with 30 keys. The organ prospectus consisted of the registers Principal 8 ', Flötbass 8' and Praestant 4 '. The action was carried out by electromagnetically operated valves, the registration was purely electric. The disposition draft came from Siegfried Hildenbrand, cathedral organist in St. Gallen. The organ was inaugurated on Gaudete Sunday 1959.
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When, in 2002, none of the organ builders invited to submit an offer was able to present a meaningful conversion of the organ, it was decided to replace the breakdown-prone organ with a new one. After a farewell concert on September 3, 2011, the organ was dismantled and is to be given away to a Polish community after an overhaul by the Polish organ building company Jan Drozdowicz.
In the summer of 2009 an organ committee met to implement the construction of a new organ. The contract was awarded to the organ building company Kuhn from Männedorf after a tender . The organ loft had to be adapted for this new instrument (extension to the south as well as a redesign of the two staircases in order to have enough space for the larger organ). The organ prospectus was designed according to visual and organ construction aspects. The newly built organ was inaugurated on Palm Sunday , April 1st, 2012.
The instrument has three manuals including a pedal and is geared towards the “French-influenced, symphonic-romantic sound world.” With this concept, the organ differs from the universal organs often built in the Zurich region and from the Edskes organ built in 2014 in the neighboring parish Maria Frieden Dübendorf, which has an imprint in the tradition of Arp Schnitger . The organ in Wallisellen has 32 registers (two of which are transmissions). Of the 2004 pipes, 1920 are made of a tin / lead alloy, 84 pipes are made of wood. The action is mechanical, the registration mechanical and has an additional electronic typesetting system (double registration). A special feature of the organ are the fan-shaped prospect pipes. This arrangement is based on the architecture of the church. The organ prospect takes on the design of the choir wall, which follows the Corpus Christi. The organ prospectus can be illuminated in the liturgical colors by means of lighting. Mechanical action and double registration. Electronic composer combinations with sequencer and USB connection. Programmable crescendo. Swell step for Récit and Echowerk together.
Disposition organ:
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- Pair : III / II, I / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Lady Chapel
When the parish center was opened in 1991, a Marienkapelle was established in it. Willi Buck's tabernacle and the statue of the Virgin Mary were taken over from the church. The altar and a figure of Christ were created by Toni Walker, Flüelen. In the back of the Marienkapelle there is a confessional room. The tapestry behind the altar was created by the women's association.
literature
- Theo Lütolf: Quia do it Petrus. Chronicle of the Roman Catholic parish Wallisellen 1922–1947. Wallisellen 1947.
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Klaus Gasser: 25 years of St. Antonius Church Wallisellen. Wallisellen 1983.
- Wallisellen municipality (ed.): Walliseller Chronik 2009. Wallisellen 2009.
- Parish St. Antonius Wallisellen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the cath. St. Antonius Church, Wallisellen. Wallisellen 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wallisellen municipality (ed.): Walliseller Chronik 2009. p. 13.
- ↑ a b Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 264.
- ↑ Josef Hürlimann: Chilebuech Wangen-Brüttisellen. P. 169.
- ^ Wallisellen municipality (ed.): Walliseller Chronik 2009. P. 12.
- ^ Wallisellen municipality (ed.): Walliseller Chronik 2009. pp. 8–23.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. p. 4.
- ↑ Invitation to the consecration of bells on May 7, 1961.
- ^ Klaus Gasser: 25 years St. Antonius Church Wallisellen. Pp. 20-21.
- ^ Parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the cath. Church of St. Anthony. Pp. 24-25.
- ^ Marlen Burkhardt: Ferdinand Gehr. Master of sacred painting. Wallisellen 2010.
- ^ Parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the cath. Church of St. Anthony. Pp. 26-27.
- ^ Parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the cath. Church of St. Anthony. P. 6.
- ^ Parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the cath. Church of St. Anthony. P. 29.
- ^ Parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the cath. Church of St. Anthony. Pp. 6-7.
- ↑ Hans-Peter Keller: Thoughts of the organ builder. In: Parish St. Antonius Wallisellen (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the Catholic. Church of St. Anthony. P. 20.
- ^ Parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the cath. Church of St. Anthony. P. 22.
- ^ Parish of St. Antonius Wallisellen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Kuhn organ in the cath. Church of St. Anthony. P. 15.
- ↑ St. Anthony, Wallisen . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '1.2 " N , 8 ° 35' 24.2" E ; CH1903: six hundred eighty-six thousand eight hundred ninety / 252,436