St. Gabriel (Schwerzenbach)
The Roman Catholic Church Center St. Gabriel is located in the historic center of Schwerzenbach in the canton of Zurich . It is located in the Haus zum Wiesenthal , built in 1803, at Dorfstrasse 9a .
history
prehistory
Schwerzenbach, which belonged to the rule of Greifensee in the Middle Ages and passed over to Zurich in 1402 , already owned a church in the Middle Ages, which was built on the same site as today's Reformed Church, built in the classicist style between 1812 and 1813 Schwerzenbach . According to the legend of St. Einhard , there was a local saint from Schwerzenbach who is said to have been buried near the medieval church. During the Old Zurich War , the Schwyz destroyed the medieval church in 1444, which was rebuilt in the following years. The right to appoint the pastor, the so-called Kollatur , belonged to Einsiedeln Monastery until 1834 , although the Schwerzenbach community, as a subject area of Zurich, had changed to the Reformed faith in 1524. From the Reformation in Zurich, Catholic services were forbidden in Zurich for centuries.
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. From 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. So in 1874 the church of St. Peter and Paul in Zurich-Aussersihl was built, which became the Roman Catholic mother parish of the city and region of Zurich, to which Schwerzenbach also belongs. The parish Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon was established from St. Peter and Paul Zurich-Aussersihl in 1894, from which the later parish Maria Frieden was founded in Dübendorf. In 1897, the first Catholic church service since the Reformation took place in Dübendorf, initially in the dance hall of the Kreuz restaurant . In 1902, the Catholic parish bought one at the Wilstrasse situated former shepherd's hut , which for 50 years as a rectory and Notkapelle served. The chapel was consecrated on December 21, 1902. In 1904 Dübendorf was promoted to parish rectorate and on December 7, 1926 to parish and separated from Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon. When the population and the number of Catholics continued to rise after the Second World War , a new building in Dübendorf became necessary. The foundation stone of the church was laid on August 27, 1950, and on April 27, 1952, the Bishop of Chur Christian Caminada consecrated the church in honor of Mary, Queen of Peace .
History of origin and naming
Since the pastoral care station in Dübendorf was set up in 1902, the Catholics of Schwerzenbach and those of Fällanden have been cared for from Dübendorf. In 1971 the parish of Dübendorf acquired the property Haus zum Wiesenthal with the intention and the obligation towards the seller to build a church center on the area or to use the house for church purposes. In 1979 the parish terminated the existing rental contracts because the property was in disrepair. Before the parish could demolish the house, it was inventoried in 1981 as a protected object of the monument and heritage protection. Until 1997 the parish tried repeatedly to be allowed to tear down the Haus zum Wiesenthal, which was prevented by the homeland security, the cantonal monument preservation and various court judgments. On March 4, 1997, the federal court finally decided that the property had to be preserved. The Haus zum Wiesenthal was therefore a listed building . The roof was repaired in March 1998 and the dilapidated residential wing was renovated between December 1998 and June 2000, so that three apartments, rooms for church events on the ground floor and a chapel for 30 people in the former cellar, which opened on June 24, 2000 has been. After a redesign of this chapel was on September 16, 2007, Bishop Paul Vollmar the angel Gabriel benediziert . Since the angel Gabriel announced the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary , the dedication of the Schwerzenbach Chapel to the angel Gabriel creates an indirect reference to the mother parish of Dübendorf, whose parish church is dedicated to Maria Frieden the Mother of God.
In 2011, the parish began to expand the barn wing into a church center. First, a design plan for the area was drawn up. In 2012 an architecture competition took place. After further clarifications, in particular about the building structure of the barn wing, and negotiations with the monument protection authorities and the political municipality of Schwerzenbach, the Dübendorf parish assembly approved the project on February 3, 2015. On May 20, 2016 the foundation stone for the construction of the church center was laid. In the years 2016 to 2017 the construction took place according to plans of the architects Thomas Schinkhof and Pia Kiebel from apb Architekten, Uster in cooperation with the monument protection. On August 26, 2017, Vicar General Josef Annen inaugurated the church center.
The parish of Dübendorf, to which Schwerzenbach and Fällanden also belong, is the third largest Catholic parish in the Canton of Zurich after Winterthur and Uster with 11,707 members (as of 2017).
Building description
Set back from Dorfstrasse , the Haus zum Wiesenthal is located in the core area of Schwerzenbach, which is listed in the inventory of the cantonal protected sites. The Haus zum Wiesenthal is a plank post construction , the construction of which is determined by posts that form the building's load-bearing system from the threshold to the roof. This type of building predominates in the Swiss Plateau, in contrast to block construction in the foothills of the Alps and the Alps and half-timbered construction in northern Switzerland up to the Winterthur region . The Haus zum Wiesenthal was built in 1803 and expanded in 1880. It has a gable roof that runs from southwest to northeast. The northern part of the house is the barn wing, in which the plank frame construction is clearly visible, especially in the church, the southern part is the residential wing, the facades of which are made of white plastered stones in the southeast and southwest; the north-western facade of the residential wing is made of wood.
Residential wing with chapel
The residential wing of Haus zum Wiesenthal has three apartments on four floors and rooms on the ground floor that are used for parish purposes. In the basement, a chapel was set up in the former cellar. In 2007 it was redesigned by sculptor Toni Walker from Flüelen . He chose oak for the carved elements as well as for the liturgical furniture to give the room a warm character. The main elements of the altar and ambo are made of chrome steel. The tabernacle is set in a former wall niche. The peculiarity of the crucifix is that Jesus is no longer the sufferer on Good Friday , but already transfigured at Easter , he takes his hand from the cross and extends it to the people. This design creates a direct reference to the Eucharistic celebration , which is celebrated in this chapel. Next to the Madonna, a bronze statue of Gabriel characterizes the room. All of these items have been coordinated and form an ensemble.
Barn wing with church center
Since its expansion between 2016 and 2017, the barn wing has had a foyer with kitchen on the first floor, classrooms and meeting rooms on the first floor and a hall with two galleries from the second floor over three and a half floors to the roof ridge, which can be used for both church events and for mundane events is used. As required by the protection of monuments, the floor heights specified by the residential wing and the stand construction under protection were retained during the reconstruction, which made special demands on the interior work including the installation of the building services. In order to preserve the original character of the building, old wooden elements were reused wherever possible. The foyer has a wall paneling made of 200-year-old wood and in the hall the altar and ambo are made of old wooden beams. The hall is characterized by the beams and posts of the plank frame construction, which is additionally emphasized by the lighting concept of the room. The cladding of the galleries contains crosses that refer to the use of the room as a church.
The facade of the barn wing is clad with wooden slats, which, when closed, are reminiscent of the historical use of the building as a farmhouse and barn. At the height of the hall, a monumental, yet discreetly framed cross is attached to the facade. On the forecourt, on the occasion of the inauguration of the church center, a sculpture was placed by artist Urs-P. Twellmann was created from historical beams. The work of art can be understood as an archway or as two crosses that are connected to each other.
Barn wing before the renovation in 2015
Interior view of the barn by 2015
Detail view window
Sculpture by Urs-P. Twellmann from historical beams
literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (Ed.): Building history of the Haus zum Wiesenthal. Schwerzenbach 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Hürlimann: Chilebuech Wangen-Brüttisellen. P. 169.
- ^ Alois Ender, in: Catholic Parish Dübendorf. 1977, p. 27.
- ↑ Kirchgemeinde Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): Building history of the Haus zum Wiesenthal , pp. 1–2.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): Building history of the Haus zum Wiesenthal , pp. 2-3.
- ^ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Annual report 2017. p. 84.
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '53.08 " N , 8 ° 39' 3.84" E ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-one thousand five hundred fifty-five / 248 549