St. Josef (Lindau-Grafstal)
The St. Josef Church is the Roman Catholic church of Lindau in the Pfäffikon district . It is located in the village of Grafstal . In 2016 it was handed over to the Coptic Christians under construction law .
history
History and naming
Since the Reformation in Zurich from 1523, Catholic worship was banned in what is now the Canton of Zurich. The Catholic rite was only possible again in the 19th century. The Edict of Tolerance from 1807 allowed immigrant Catholics to celebrate Catholic services again, but initially only in the city of Zurich. When the modern Confederation was founded in 1848, freedom of religion and freedom of residence was enshrined in the constitution , so that Catholic communities could be established throughout the Canton of Zurich. Due to the industrialization that created numerous jobs in the Kempttal , people from Catholic areas in Central Switzerland , Eastern Switzerland , but also from neighboring countries moved to the region. As early as 1813, 50 Catholics residing in the city of Winterthur appealed to the city fathers to be tolerant, but it was not until 1862, when the Rheinau monastery was abolished and the further use of its assets was legally regulated by the canton of Zurich, that the first was allowed in Winterthur Catholic worship has been taking place since the Reformation. The so-called First Zurich Church Law from 1863 recognized Zurich as well as the Catholic parishes in Winterthur, Rheinau and Dietikon (the last two were traditionally Catholic places), so that a Catholic parish could be established in Winterthur. In 1868, the newly built St. Peter and Paul Church was opened in the presence of representatives of the cantonal government, including state clerk and poet Gottfried Keller and the city council of Winterthur. However, the establishment of further parishes in the canton was not recognized by the state, which is why these had to be set up on the basis of private and association law, including the diaspora parish of St. Josef in Grafstal.
Development and construction history
Grafstal was located between the parishes of St. Peter and Paul Winterthur and Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon, which already existed around 1900 . These two parishes determined the structure of the diaspora parish in Grafstal. The first Catholics in Grafstal and the surrounding area were initially looked after by the clergy from the parishes of St. Peter and Paul Winterthur and Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon. In 1901 the pastoral care area of Grafstal was one of the largest in the canton of Zurich. In 1902, the parish Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon bought a small building, in the basement of which catholic services were held for the first time since the Reformation in Grafstal. In 1903 this service station was assigned to the parish of St. Peter and Paul Winterthur after the service location was designated on August 31, 1903. Since the Maggi company employed many Catholic workers, the company donated the land for the construction of today's church in 1926. On September 2, 1928, the Church of St. Joseph was designated. The diaspora parish was responsible for the Catholics of Lindau, Illnau-Effretikon and Brütten as well as other surrounding communities. After the Second World War, the number of inhabitants of Illnau-Effretikon grew rapidly, which is why the majority of Catholics no longer lived in the village of Grafstal, but in neighboring Illnau-Effretikon. Therefore, the parish decided in 1963 to build a second church in Illnau-Effretikon. In 1983, today's parish church of St. Martin was built there, which replaced St. Josef Grafstal as the parish church of the community.
Today the Church of St. Josef is a branch church of the parish of St. Martin Illnau-Effretikon. The parish of St. Martin, with its 5785 members (as of 2014), is one of the larger Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Building description
Church tower and exterior
The Church of St. Josef is located in the factory workers' area of Grafstal at Rikonerstrasse 8 . Due to the topographical location, the church is not facing east, but facing west. It is a simple nave building whose gable roof with a roof turret crowned. It contains a three-part bell, which was made in 1969 by the H. Rüetschi bell foundry , Aarau and sounds in the tone sequence a, c, es. As a special feature, the roof turret has a tower clock with only a single dial. The former rectory is located south of the church.
Interior and artistic equipment
The actual church is not on the ground floor, but on the first floor of the building above the parish hall. The visitor reaches the church on the first floor via two flights of stairs. The worship room is closed off by a gable roof. The room has a rectangular floor plan to which a slightly raised, recessed choir is attached. The singing and organ gallery is located on the east side of the church. In 1969-1970 the church was renovated and adapted to the requirements of the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council . Since then the church has had a folk altar and an ambo . The altar is made of wood, the tabernacle and the ambo rest on a white painted stone plinth. The top of the anvil and the actual tabernacle are made of metal. The front of the ambo bears a dove of the Holy Spirit and a cross, the tabernacle an ear and a grape. The Easter candlestick, whose base symbolizes a shoot and is set with white stones in the upper part, was designed in a similar manner. A metal crucifix with a body was attached to the choir wall , to the right of which the twelve apostle candles, which were grouped in a V-shape. On the left side of the chancel there is a statue of Our Lady with a child, which adopts the formal language of the crucifix on the choir wall. On the right side next to the choir there is a statue of Joseph , which, in contrast to the statue of the Mother of God, was not sculpted but designed as a relief. The baptismal font is located at the church entrance under the organ gallery. In front of the door to the church there was a representation of St. Anthony with the baby Jesus, which, like the statue of Joseph in the church, was worked as a relief.
organ
Since 1992 the church has had an organ from the Kuhn company in Männedorf. It is an instrument that was built in 1968 and initially found another use. The instrument has a mechanical action and registration as well as sliding drawers. The manual has a bass / treble division between b and c 1 .
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literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Catholic parish Illnau-Lindau (Ed.): Parish of St. Martin Illnau-Effretikon. The new center church consecration 1938/1984. Illnau-Effretikon 1984.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the parish Illnau-Effretikon. ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 August 31, 2016.
- ↑ Liselotte Forster: 70 years as a Catholic in Bäretswil 1940-2010. Becoming and growing a diaspora parish in the Zurich Oberland. Bäretswil 2010. pp. 12-14.
- ^ Peter Niederhäuser and Flurina Pescatore: St. Peter and Paul. The mother church of Katholisch-Winterthur. Pp. 7-17.
- ↑ Inscription on the church in Grafstal.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 212.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 212.
- ↑ Inscription on the church in Grafstal.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (ed.): Annual report 2014. p. 78.
- ^ Website of the organ builder. Section Effretikon Church Grafstal. Retrieved July 8, 2014.
