St. Josef (Glattfelden)
The Church of St. Joseph is the Roman Catholic parish church in Glattfelden in the Zurich Unterland . Two other churches belong to the parish: the Church of St. Judas Thaddäus in Eglisau and the Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena in Rafz . The first letters of the villages with the three Catholic churches result in the abbreviation of the parish Glattfelden - Eglisau - Rafz, as it is also used on the Internet: Glegra . The parish belonging to it is responsible for the places Buchberg , Eglisau, Glattfelden, Hüntwangen , Rafz, Rüdlingen , Stadel , Wasterkingen and Wil .
With 4,306 members (as of 2017), the parish is one of the medium-sized Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
history
Parish history
A church in Glattfelden was mentioned for the first time in the crusade tax sledge of 1275, but without naming a church patron . At that time the church belonged to the Archdeaconate of Klettgau . In 1421 Glattfelden was raised to an independent parish. After the Reformation in Zurich in 1523, the practice of the Catholic cult was forbidden in the Zurich region for almost 300 years. As a result, the Church of Glattfelden became the Reformed Church.
The Edict of Tolerance of the Zurich Government Council of September 10, 1807 allowed a Catholic community in Zurich for the first time. The so-called First Church Law of Zurich in 1863 finally recognized the Catholic parishes in addition to Zurich, also in Winterthur , Dietikon and Rheinau (the last two were traditionally Catholic places). On the basis of association law, Catholic branches could then be established throughout the canton. With the help of associations such as the Piusverein (founded in 1857) and the Catholic Society for Domestic Missions (founded in 1863), further pastoral care stations and later parishes in the canton of Zurich were set up in quick succession in the 1860s.
When the Swiss Federal Constitution came into force in 1848, the so-called freedom of establishment was introduced. As a result of industrialization , Catholics from eastern and central Switzerland , but also from neighboring Catholic countries, moved to the Zurich Unterland in the second half of the 19th century. The construction of the railway lines gave Bülach a regional center function, which is why the first Catholic pastoral care station in the Zurich Unterland was built there in 1882. In the 20th century, the Bülach parish gave birth to four daughter parishes, of which the Glegra parish is the youngest. With the construction of the Rheinsfelden power plant and the new road bridge over the Rhine in Eglisau in 1915–1920, the proportion of the Catholic resident population also increased in the northernmost part of the Zurich lowlands. The parish of Glegra initially developed in the communities of Glattfelden and Eglisau. For example, church services were held for the Catholics north of Bülach from 1931 in the Aarüti schoolhouse in Glattfelden. In Eglisau, the first Holy Mass since the Reformation was celebrated in a magazine on Palm Sunday 1942. In 1949 the Church of Judas Thaddäus was built in Eglisau, and in 1950 the Church of St. Josef in Glattfelden. In 1962, the Bishop of Chur , Johannes Vonderach , appointed the area a parish rectorate and on December 22, 1967 an independent parish. On November 24, 1994, Auxiliary Bishop Peter Henrici inaugurated the third church of the Glegra parish in Rafz.
Development and construction history
The cramped conditions at the Catholic church services, which took place in Glattfelden from 1931 in the Aarüti schoolhouse , motivated the worshipers to set up a church building fund . At the end of 1942, the building site for the construction of today's church above the village was purchased. The architect Joseph Steiner , who had already built the churches of St. Petrus in Embrach and the church of St. Christophorus in Niederhasli for the parish of Bülach , built the church of St. Josef in Glattfelden between 1950 and 1951. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 23, 1950, the foundation stone was laid by the Dean Mächler from Winterthur on October 22, 1951 and the church was consecrated by Vicar General Theobaldi from Zurich. In 1955 the rectory was finally built behind the church .
Building description
Church tower and exterior
The church of St. Josef is clearly visible from the village of Glattfelden on Wilhelmshöhe on Berghaldenstrasse above the village. The church is east-facing and consists of a longitudinal building with a gable roof , polygonal choir and vestibule. The bell tower was added to the church on the southern side of the church. The tower contains a larger room and is continued with the sacristy attached to the east of the tower.
In the first few years after the church was built, there were no bells in the tower. On October 14, 1961, the Eschmann company , Rickenbach , cast the bells for St. Joseph's Church. On October 21, 1961, exactly 10 years to the day after the consecration of the church, the bells entered the community and two days later they were raised in the tower by the Glattfeld school children. It is a four-part chime that has been matched to the bells of the Reformed Church. The bell ornament comes from F. Linder.
| number | Weight | diameter | volume | dedication | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1100 kg | 126 cm | e ' | Trinity | May God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit bless us. |
| 2 | 625 kg | 104 cm | G' | St. Joseph | Bless thou the burden of work which it always embraces so faithfully, work until the last rest. |
| 3 | 460 kg | 94 cm | a ' | Mother of God | Holy Mother of God, pray for us poor sinners, now and in the hour of our death. |
| 4th | 325 kg | 84 cm | H' | Brother Klaus | Frid is always in God, because God is Frid. |
Interior and artistic equipment
In the back of the nave there is an organ loft , and a vaulted roof completes the church building. A triumphal arch forms the transition from the nave of the church to the polygonal choir. In 1968 the altar area was adapted to the requirements of the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council . In 1993/94 the artist Alois Spichtig redesigned the church's choir. He was inspired by elements of creation . The stone altar , which originally stood on the wall of the choir, is in the center of the choir area. To the left of the altar, Alois Spichtig created an ambo that rests on a stone pedestal and consists of wood in the form of a rope in the upper part . Opposite, in the left part of the choir, there is a boulder in which a baptismal font has been incorporated. On the left side of the choir is the tabernacle on the wall , which has the shape of a house and thus shows the function of the tabernacle as the home of consecrated bread. Alois Spichtig also created the wall painting in the choir. On the left, behind the ambo as the place of the word, Mount Sinai is shown as the place where God meets. On it is λόγος (logos) (the word) in Greek letters and thus creates the reference to the word service as the first part of every Catholic service. On the back wall is a simple cross, which Alois Spichtig has reinterpreted into an ear of wheat by designing the wall. This refers to the symbolism of the Eucharist (wheat grain, bread, body of Christ) as the second part of the Catholic worship service. Behind the cross there is a bright yellow circle that corresponds to the left wall around the tabernacle. The color yellow symbolizes the sacred, the divine. The ceiling of the choir was painted blue by Alois Spichtig, referring to the sky. There are two wooden statues on the left side of the nave. These are the namesake of the church, St. Joseph , and a Madonna and Child . On the wall behind the two statues, Alois Spichtig indicated an angel who, with his blue wings and radiant yellow head, seems to embrace and protect the Holy Family .
organ
In 1977 the company Muhleisen in Strasbourg built the present organ of the church as Opus 152. The parapet organ with mechanical action has ten registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal . In the three-part prospectus , two round towers flank a lower flat pipe field.
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literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Churches in the City of Zurich. Zurich 1989.
- Christian Renfer: Catholic Church Bülach. Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1992.
- Parish of Glegra (ed.): Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena Rafz. Rafz 1994.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (ed.): Annual report. Zurich 2017, p. 38.
- ↑ a b Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (ed.): Schematismus des Bistums Chur , p. 211.
- ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. Zurich 1989, p. 192.
- ^ Christian Renfer: Catholic Church Bülach. Pp. 4-5.
- ↑ Glegra parish (ed.): Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena Rafz , pp. 25-26.
- ↑ Glegra parish (ed.): Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena Rafz , pp. 24–30.
- ↑ Glegra parish (ed.): Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena Rafz , p. 10.
- ↑ Glegra parish (ed.): Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena Rafz , pp. 26–27.
- ↑ Glegra parish (ed.): Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena Rafz , pp. 27–28.
- ↑ Glegra parish (ed.): Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena Rafz , pp. 28-29.
- ↑ Glegra parish (ed.): Church of Resurrection St. Maria Magdalena Rafz , p. 29.
- ↑ Glegra parish (ed.): Church of the Resurrection of St. Maria Magdalena Rafz , p. 28.
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '46.7 " N , 8 ° 29' 44.5" E ; CH1903: six hundred seventy-nine thousand five hundred fifty / 268 565