St. Christophorus (Niederhasli)
The St. Christophorus Chapel is the Roman Catholic parish church of Niederhasli in the Zurich Unterland . The parish belonging to it is responsible for the places Niederhasli, Niederglatt and Oberglatt .
history
History and naming
The first mention of a place of worship in Niederhasli found in a document from 1188 in which a St. Bartholmäus - patronage is called. During excavations in today's Reformed Church Niederhasli in 1981, this first church could also be archaeologically proven. It was a simple hall building that was expanded in the 15th century, probably after the church was sacked by the Confederates in the Old Zurich War in 1443 , and replaced by today's Reformed church in the 17th century.
Near Niederhasli, on the old pilgrimage route from the Black Forest to Einsiedeln , there was a chapel on the road between Schöfflisdorf and Regensberg in the 16th century. It was the Maria Pflasterbach pilgrimage chapel , which was first mentioned in written sources around 1500, but was soon abandoned after the Reformation . A colored pilgrimage note from 1503 shows the pilgrimage picture of Maria Pflasterbach, a Sorrowful Mother of God. In connection with the pilgrimage image of the Maria Pflasterbach chapel, the Catholic chapel of Niederhasli was consecrated to Our Lady of Sorrows when it was built in 1925 .
After the Reformation in 1523, Catholic worship was banned in Zurich and the surrounding area until the 19th century. It was not until September 10, 1807 that the Small Council of Zurich approved the reintroduction of the Catholic cult. In the course of industrialization , Catholic workers and their families moved to the Zürcher Unterland in the following decades from central and eastern Switzerland , but also from neighboring countries. Since Bülach is conveniently located in terms of transport and the local companies also attracted the Catholic working-class families who moved there, the first Catholic pastoral care station in the Zurich lowlands was established there in 1882. The current parish of the Holy Trinity emerged from it.
The parish of the Holy Trinity in Bülach was initially responsible for the entire Zurich lowlands. That is why it was the pastor of Bülach who held the first Catholic service in Dielsdorf on September 20, 1896, the Federal Day of Prayer , in the room of the Sonne restaurant , where Catholic services were also regularly celebrated in the following years. Dielsdorf was chosen as the location because numerous Catholic workers, mainly from Italy, were employed in the quarries located there. Because the Catholics in Dielsdorf could not find their own hall for their church services and in the 1920s there were more Catholics in neighboring Niederhasli than in the district capital Dielsdorf, the building site for the first Catholic church in the district was finally sought and found in Niederhasli.
Development and construction history
In the 20th century, four parishes emerged from the parish of Bülach. The first daughter parish was St. Pirminius (Pfungen) (church building 1900–1901, parish establishment 1902), the second was St. Petrus Embrachertal (church building 1924, parish establishment 1974), the third Niederhasli-Dielsdorf (chapel building in Niederhasli 1925 and church building in Dielsdorf 1960 , Parish founded in 1954 and 1995) and the youngest daughter parish of Bülach was Glattfelden – Eglisau – Rafz with the churches of St. Josef (Glattfelden) (parish founded in 1967, church building 1950), St. Judas Thaddäus (Eglisau) (church building 1949) and the Church of the Resurrection St. Maria Magdalena (Rafz) (church building 1993).
In 1925, the Bülach parish in Niederhasli built today's chapel, which is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows. Simultaneously with the construction of this chapel, the area of today's parish Dielsdorf / Niederhasli was raised to a parish vicariate and thus merged into a unit under canon law. In 1948 a house was bought on Seestrasse in Niederhasli so that the vicar , who was responsible for the area, could live there and carry out his pastoral work from there. With the prospect of the new construction of the St. Paulus Church in Dielsdorf, Niederhasli and Dielsdorf were raised to a parish in 1954 and separated from Bülach. In addition to the places that today belong to the two parishes Niederhasli and Dielsdorf, the parish was initially also responsible for the two villages of Otelfingen and Boppelsen in the Furttal , which were added to this when the parish of St. Mauritius Regensdorf was founded in 1963. After the construction of the St. Paulus Church in 1960–1962, the headquarters of the parish was moved to Dielsdorf; the chapel in Niederhasli was added to the parish of St. Paulus Dielsdorf as a second place of worship. In the years 1981–1999, the former New Apostolic parish hall in Niederhasli was rented as a place for group meetings and religious instruction until a parish center was built . On March 1, 1995, Niederhasli was finally raised to its own parish and separated from Dielsdorf. A second namesake for the church of Niederhasli was also determined. This is St. Christopher , after whom the parish is officially named today. A parish center has been available behind the church for parish life since 1999.
In the neighboring community of Niederglatt, a new village center was built in the 1970s, and an ecumenical church was built in the center from 1979–1980 . Since the church is right on the Glatt, it was decided to dedicate the church to St. Christopher, who, according to legend, had carried the Christ child across a river. The construction costs of this ecumenical church were divided according to the number of members of the two regional churches. Today the church is run by the Reformed parish Niederhasli-Niederglatt together with the Catholic parish of St. Christophorus. In Oberglatt, the third parish for which the parish of St. Christophorus is responsible, selected church services are held during the Christmas and Easter periods as well as other ecumenical services in the Reformed Church of Oberglatt.
Together with the parish of St. Paulus Dielsdorf, the parish of St. Christophorus Niederhasli forms a joint parish which, with its 10,674 members (as of 2017), is one of the larger Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich. The Niederhasli parish is responsible for 5,709 Catholics.
Building description
The Schwyz architect Joseph Steiner , who had already built the St. Petrus chapel in Embrach in 1924 , built the Niederhasli chapel in 1925 in the neo-Romanesque style, which was inaugurated on November 8, 1925. The building is divided into a vestibule, a nave with 110 seats, which is closed by a choir, and a church tower. The choir of the chapel was closed with a vault , the nave with an unadorned coffered ceiling . In 1954 a shed and a toilet were added to the chapel.
The most striking piece of equipment in the chapel is the structure of the high altar , which is decorated with panel paintings and a carving in the late Gothic style. Worked as a winged altar , it shows scenes from the life of Mary on the two folding panels, the middle part is a fully carved representation of the Sorrowful Mother of God ( Pietà ), which was modeled in detail on the pilgrim image of the Pflasterbach chapel. The sketches for the altar seem to have been supplied by the architect Joseph Steiner; The high altar was made by Adolf Vogl's carving workshop in Hall in Tirol, from which most of the furnishings in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche Bülach come from. Further furnishing elements are two wooden sculptures by Beat Gasser, which are located to the left and right of the choir arch and depict the Mother of God with the baby Jesus and St. Joseph with the boy Jesus in a modern style . In 2000 the chapel was given a baptismal font and in 2003/2004 an altar and an ambo , which were created by Otto Rüger. These three liturgical elements form a unit in terms of style and material: each is an open wooden frame construction with a square basic shape, which was equipped with decorative elements driven by copper. The Way of the Cross from 1926 was created by the wood carver Philipp Noflander from Ortisei . The interior is rounded off by a large pictorial representation of the church patron Christophorus on the right rear wall by Michaela Novotny from 2010.
organ
An organ was installed in the organ loft above the entrance to the chapel in 1977 , which was made by the organ building company Späth from Rapperswil . It is a small organ with six sounding stops with mechanical playing and stop action. The three-part brochure is decorated with gold carvings.
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Bells
Until 1994 there were three bells in the church tower, the origin of which could not be fully clarified. These were recycled pieces with casting types in Switzerland, of which in 1994 only one could still be rung. The other two bells were removed and replaced with a newly cast bell. In 2004, one of the two removed bells was pulled back into the tower, so that the church now has three ringable bells, of which the first two bells can be rung electrically and the third has a hand pull.
The largest bell was cast in 1885 and was originally the bell in the roof turret of the Bülach emergency church. It was the only one left in the tower in 1994. The second bell was cast in 1994 by the Rüetschi company , Aarau. The third bell was cast by Johann Jakob Schnegg in Basel, but has no date or dedication.
| number | Weight | diameter | volume | dedication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 180 kg | 680 mm | it | Maria |
| 2 | 110 kg | 560 mm | total | Maria |
| 3 | 35 kg | 380 mm | c |
The second bell removed from the tower in 1994 is now in the square behind the chapel. It is a bell cast by Joseph Anton Brandenberg in Zug between 1766 and 1786, which is decorated with vignettes of the Mother of God, God the Father and St. Oswald .
literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Hermann-Josef Hüsgen: Catholic Church Niederhasli. Small guide through the Church of St. Marien and St. Christophorus. Niederhasli 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann-Josef Hüsgen: Catholic Church Niederhasli. P. 5.
- ^ Website of the parish, section time travel. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ^ Website of the parish, section time travel. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ^ Website of the parish, section time travel. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ^ Parish Church Foundation Bülach (Ed.): Parish Bülach 1882-1982. 100 years of Catholic pastoral care in the Zurich Unterland. P. 14 and website of the parish, section time travel. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ^ Parish Church Foundation Bülach (Ed.): Parish Bülach 1882-1982. 100 years of Catholic pastoral care in the Zurich Unterland. P. 18.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 200 and website of the parish of Dielsdorf, section parish history. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
- ^ Website of the parish, section time travel. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ^ Parish website, Portrait section. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ^ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Annual report 2017. p. 82.
- ↑ Hermann-Josef Hüsgen: Catholic Church Niederhasli. P. 9.
- ^ Parish website, Portrait section. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ↑ Hermann-Josef Hüsgen: Catholic Church Niederhasli. P. 18.
- ↑ Hermann-Josef Hüsgen: Catholic Church Niederhasli. Pp. 16-18.
- ↑ Hermann-Josef Hüsgen: Catholic Church Niederhasli. P. 21 and 26
- ↑ Hermann-Josef Hüsgen: Catholic Church Niederhasli. P. 22.
- ↑ Hermann-Josef Hüsgen: Catholic Church Niederhasli. Pp. 28-30.
Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '47.9 " N , 8 ° 29' 10.9" E ; CH1903: 678 971 / 259,326