St. Josef (Dietikon)

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St. Joseph Church

The Church of St. Joseph is the second Roman Catholic parish church of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich , along with the Church of St. Agatha . The St. Josef Church is in the east of Dietikon on Urdorferstrasse .

history

Middle Ages up to the 20th century

From the 8th century, there was a first Christian cult site in Dietikon in the area of ​​today's Basi . A parish church has been documented in the village center of Dietikon since 1089. It is believed that the Church of St. Ulrich and Agatha was only built towards the end of the 11th century, probably as a daughter church of the town church of Baden. Several chapels belonged to the church of St. Ulrich and Agatha in the 14th century. St. Ulrich and Agatha was the mother church of the surrounding communities Glanzenberg (ceded to Weiningen ZH in 1259 ), Killwangen (ceded to Baden in 1319), Spreitenbach , Urdorf and Geroldswil . In the year 1489, St. Ulrich was named as the first title saint in documents for the church , later St. Agatha was named as the first title saint and St. Ulrich was only listed as a minor patron. The patronage of the church of Dietikon was given to the Wettingen monastery in 1257 by Rudolf von Habsburg together with the patronage of the Spreitenbach and Urdorf branches . When the Wettingen monastery adopted the Reformed faith in 1529 , the pictures and altars were removed from the church and a pulpit was placed in the choir in the St. Agatha Dietikon church, which belongs to the Wettingen monastery . After the Battle of Kappel in 1531, the Catholic towns enforced the reintroduction of the Catholic faith in Wettingen Monastery. In 1532 the altar in the church of St. Agatha Dietikon was put up again in the church, but a Reformed minority remained in Dietikon. The Church of St. Agatha was awarded to both denominations by the State Peace Act . The rectory was also initially inhabited by a Reformed and a Catholic priest. However, the reformed pastor soon withdrew to Urdorf, which had completely converted to the new faith. The appointment of the Catholic and the Reformed pastor was made by the Abbot of Wettingen, to whom the City of Zurich presented a list of three from which he had to choose. Even before the Wettingen monastery was abolished in 1841, patronage was transferred from the canton of Aargau to the canton of Zurich in 1838 . When the Helvetic Republic was dissolved in 1803 , the canton of Zurich received the two Catholic communities Rheinau ZH and Dietikon through mediation . The parishes there were - from 1863 also with the parish of St. Peter and Paul in Winterthur - the only ones recognized under public law in the otherwise Reformed canton of Zurich. This special situation only changed in 1963 as part of a referendum through which the Roman Catholic Church was recognized throughout the Canton of Zurich.

From the 20th century

End of the simultaneous relationship and construction of St. Agatha

The construction of the Spanish Brötli Railway and the subsequent industrialization resulted in a rapid increase in the population of Dietikon. The old simultaneous church therefore became much too small for both the Catholic and the Reformed congregations. Also, for various reasons, more than two services on Sunday morning were not possible, so that the space available brought the Bishop of Chur , Georg Schmid von Grüneck to the statement at the company address on All Saints' Day in 1911: "Use all your strength to get out of this sardine can". In the 1910s, the end of the simultaneous relationship was therefore sought by both parishes, but without being able to reach an agreement with the other parish. It was also not clear for a long time which of the two parishes would keep the old church. On both sides, money was collected for the construction of a new church of their own and a search was made for suitable building land. After years of negotiations, an estimate of the shares of the two parishes in the old Simultankirche was made in 1918. Since the Catholic furnishings were more extensive, their proportion in the old church was greater. At a vote by the Reformed parish on January 23, 1921, its members decided with 78 out of 120 votes to accept the Catholic parish's offer to buy out. On September 13, 1925, the Reformed Christians held their last service in the old Simultaneous Church and went to the consecration of the newly built Reformed Church. In the years 1925–1927, today's St. Agatha Church was built in the center of Dietikon according to plans by the renowned architect Adolf Gaudy . It is roughly twice as large as its medieval predecessor church.

Development and construction history

Foundation stone from 1967

Since the end of the Second World War , a building boom has set in in the metropolitan areas of Switzerland, which also affected Dietikon from the 1950s. In 1968, 15,000 Catholics lived in Dietikon and the parishes of Geroldswil , Oetwil an der Limmat and Fahrweid- Weiningen ZH , which were then part of the Catholic parish of Dietikon , which is why the planning of two further parishes within Dietikon and one in Geroldswil for Oetwil and Fahrweid was sought , of which only the parish of St. Johannes Geroldswil and the parish of St. Josef Dietikon were realized. The establishment of a parish St. Ulrich , which would have had the original patron of the church St. Agatha, Bishop Ulrich von Augsburg, did not materialize. This church would have stood at today's Schützenstrasse 2-8 in the Breiti district in the west of Dietikon. The second parish of the city of Dietikon, on the other hand, was established in the east of the city in the Schönenwerd district, the parish of St. Josef. The name was given in consideration of the St. Joseph's Home of the Carmelites, which is located next to the church . On February 12, 1963, a building commission was formed, which invited six architects to an architectural competition. On April 28, 1965, the project was selected by architect Julius Senn. The architect was then commissioned by the building commission to revise his project according to the client's wishes. Since the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council was implemented on March 26, 1965 , Julius Senn also had to take these changed requirements into account when building his church. In 1966 the revised project was approved by the building commission, the church maintenance department of Dietikon and also by the Roman Catholic Central Commission in Zurich. On April 13, 1966, the Catholics of the Dietikon parish approved the template for the church building and the financing of St. Josef Dietikon. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 19, 1966 and the foundation stone was laid on March 19, 1967 . Since the architect Julius Senn died in 1967, his brother Eugen Senn continued building the church. The first service was celebrated on May 5, 1968. The church was consecrated by Diocesan Bishop Johannes Vonderach on October 20, 1968 . On the same day, the Schönwerd district was made a parish rectorate. On September 3, 1972, St. Josef Dietikon was appointed an independent parish and separated from St. Agatha. In 1984/85 the parish realized the construction of the parish house St. Josef, located between the church and the rectory. In 2000 the interior and exterior renovation of the parish and Sigrist house took place, in 2002 the interior cleaning and exterior renovation of the church. The interior renovation of the church was carried out in 2014.

The Church of St. Josef and the Church of St. Agatha have been part of the Dietikon parish since 2014. In 2016, the Dietikon-Schlieren pastoral care room, which had existed since 2003, was dissolved. One of the reasons for the abolition of the pastoral care room is the rapid growth of the resident population in the Limmat Valley. The Catholic parish of Dietikon, with its 8,832 members (as of 2017), is one of the largest Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.

Building description

Steeple

Church tower and exterior

Located on Urdorferstrasse , the St. Josef Church rises as a concrete building along the street. The church tower was placed on the flat roof of the church as a roof turret, but a facade element in front allows the roof turret to emerge as a church tower. In keeping with the taste of the time, the church has no actual church windows, but rather vertical window slots that were made in the concrete facade. The parking spaces for the cars of visitors to the center are set up under the church; Via an outside staircase, the visitor arrives from Urdorferstrasse to the raised church square, from which the rectory (left), the parish center (center) and the church (right) can be entered.

The church tower hides a four-part bell that sounds the Salve Regina motif. The bells were cast on December 2, 1966 in the Emil Eschmann bell foundry in Rickenbach TG near Wil SG. On October 15, 1967, Abbot Heinrich Groner of the Wettingen-Mehrerau Monastery consecrated the bells, which were raised in the tower by the school children the following day. On May 5, 1968, the bell rang for the first time.

number Weight volume dedication inscription
1 1250 kg e 1 St. Joseph For the sake of his loyalty and humility he sanctified him and chosen him from all men. In the name of God, Emil Eschmann Rickenbach poured me and my three sisters.
2 630 kg g sharp 1 St. John the Baptist You will be called a prophet of the Most High and you will go before the Lord to prepare the way for him.
3 370 kg h 1 Jesus Christ I am the way, the truth and the life.
4th 270 kg c sharp 2 Guardian Angel Praise the Lord, all his angels, heroes in strength who carry out his word.

Interior and artistic equipment

inside view

The St. Josef Church is a transverse rectangular concrete building, the walls of which are made of open-faced concrete walls with gate cut. The ceiling is clad with gate lumber, the floor is covered with black panels, under which the floor heating of the church is located. In addition to the window slits in the facade, the church has large light shafts that focus the daylight above the sanctuary and thereby emphasize the importance of the sanctuary. Above the main entrance of the church there is a larger window in which the artist Albert Wider has embedded symbols of the Christian faith. Albert Wider has placed other symbols in the window slits of the church interior and on the glass elements of the church doors. They symbolize events from the life of Jesus , such as the Sermon on the Mount , the Multiplication, the Lord's Supper , the Passion and Resurrection , but also the apocalyptic visions of the Last Judgment and the New Jerusalem . Contrary to many traditional church designs, the window program of St. Joseph is made of monochrome , cloudy glass. Albert Wider writes: “Colored glass pictures conquered the modern church space in a way that is hardly manageable and have thus been condensed into an egoistic end in themselves. This error and this excess must be countered with the need to use the sign in a spiritually deepened communication with the proclamation of faith, and this in a purity and simplicity of the statement in form and color in accordance with the Gospel . himself in the middle of the altar of granite is that like the rest of the equipment of the Church of Albert cons was created. The pews of the church are grouped in a semicircle around the altar, whereby the requirement of the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council was implemented that the congregation should gather around the altar. To the right of the altar is the ambo , where casts of their hands are set up in 2005 as a reminder of the last Carmelites who left Dietikon . This installation was removed again in 2014 during the renovation of the church. On the plate of the anvil, based on Isaiah 6: 1-8, a prophetic mouth is depicted, in which there is a glowing stone, a symbol for the word of God. Four eyes and flowing lines surround the prophetic mouth. To the left of the altar is the tabernacle , which Albert Wider designed as a column, similar to the one in the Trinity Church in Rüti . On the front, on the tabernacle door, the Eucharistic Bread can be seen with an embedded isosceles cross . On the left side of the chancel is the baptismal font , on the square cover plate of which the Holy Spirit is depicted in the form of a dove, who sits down on the baptismal font. The altar cross and the candlesticks were also designed by Albert Wider and take up Bible passages from the New Testament , such as Galatians 6, 14, 1 Corinthians 1, 18 and John 8, 12. In a wall niche under the organ gallery is St. Joseph , the church patron At the opposite corner of the church there is another niche in the wall of St. Anthony , who is holding a book with the Word of God in his hands and under which three loaves of bread are depicted, referring to the miracle of bread of St. Anthony. On the left side of the chancel there is the depiction of the Mother of God Mary with the baby Jesus, above whom the Holy Spirit hovers in the form of a dove. On the right side of the chancel the sculpture The Resurrected with the Blown Cross by Albert Wider was attached. This portrayal of Jesus Christ as the risen one who emerges from the grave is the greatest work in Albert Wider's oeuvre.

organ

Metzler organ from 1967

In 1967 the company built Metzler organ building the organ for the church of St. Joseph. It is an instrument with 13 registers on two manuals including a pedal . The action and the registration are mechanical. In 1978 the original cymbal 1 ⁄ 2 ′ in the 2nd manual was replaced by the Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′. The pneumatic tremulant acting on both works was installed. The general overhaul by Metzler took place in 1988. Sound slits were cut into the rear wall of the Hauptwerk housing so that the choir standing next to the instrument can hear the sound better.

I main work C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
octave 2 ′
mixture 1'
II Positive C – f 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Flute 4 ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Bourdon 8th'
Trumpet 8th'
  • Normal coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Tremulant affecting both works
  • Playing aids : Shelf Mixture (HW) Trumpet (Ped)

literature

  • Dietikon parish (ed.): St. Josefskirche Dietikon. Dietikon 1968.
  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.

Web links

Commons : Josef Dietikon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Neujahrsblatt von Dietikon 1978. Dietikon 1978. pp. 6-9.
  2. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 201.
  3. ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. New Year's Gazette from Dietikon 1978. Dietikon 1978. p. 10.
  4. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 201.
  5. ^ Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck, quoted from: Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. New Year's Gazette from Dietikon 1978. Dietikon 1978. p. 31.
  6. ^ Eduard Müller and Thomas Furger: History of the parish and parish church of St. Agatha in Dietikon. Neujahrsblatt von Dietikon 1978. Dietikon 1978. pp. 30–33.
  7. ^ Website of the parish of St. Joseph, section history. ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 24, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dietikon-schlieren.ch
  8. ↑ Dietikon parish (ed.): St. Josefskirche Dietikon. Pp. 3-8.
  9. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 201.
  10. ^ Website of the parish of St. Joseph, section history. ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 24, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dietikon-schlieren.ch
  11. ^ Website of the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
  12. ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. P. 82.
  13. ↑ Dietikon parish (ed.): St. Josefskirche Dietikon. P. 40.
  14. ↑ Dietikon parish (ed.): St. Josefskirche Dietikon. P. 36.
  15. ↑ Dietikon parish (ed.): St. Josefskirche Dietikon. Pp. 14-39.
  16. ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Section Catholic Church St. Josef Dietikon ZH. Retrieved September 24, 2014.

Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '48.3 "  N , 8 ° 24' 55.8"  E ; CH1903:  673747  /  250007