St. Josef (Horgen)

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St. Joseph Church
Apse of the church

The Church of St. Josef is the Roman Catholic parish church of Horgen in the canton of Zurich .

history

History and naming

In the document through which King Otto I donated extensive land in the Horgen area to the Fraumünster monastery in Zurich on March 1, 952 , the place Horgen was also mentioned as Horga for the first time. Pope Innocent IV confirmed in 1247 that the Fraumünster owned the church of Horgen as its own church . The church was also mentioned by name for the first time. In 1345 the Fraumünster sold the church set from Horgen to the Johanniter von Klingnau . In 1543, the master of the Order of St. John, Johannes von Hattstein , awarded the city of Zurich half tithe and the church rate in Horgen. In 1525 the Reformation was carried out in Horgen . The medieval church was henceforth used for Reformed worship. In the Old Zurich War , during the Zurich Reformation by Ulrich Zwingli and the Counter Reformation , the area of ​​the municipality of Horgen was an outpost against Catholic Central Switzerland . The medieval church was expanded in 1676 and replaced by a new building from 1780–1781, today's Reformed Church in Horgen .

Development and construction history

The Edict of Tolerance of 1807 allowed the celebration of Catholic services for the first time since the Reformation, albeit limited locally to the city of Zurich. The freedom of establishment and religious freedom of the Helvetic Republic and, from 1848, the Swiss federal state made it possible for Catholics from central and eastern Switzerland , but also from neighboring countries, to come to the Zurich region and look for work there. Since industrialization created jobs in Horgen, from the second half of the 19th century more and more Catholics moved to Horgen and the surrounding area in search of work. These first Catholics had to go to either Zug or Zurich to attend Catholic services. Due to the lack of Catholic pastoral care, there was also the risk that the Catholics in the diaspora would distance themselves from the Church. This is why Pastor Johann Joseph Röllin von Menzingen ZG founded the first mission station on the left bank of Lake Zurich in Horgen in 1865 with the permission of the Bishop of Chur , Nikolaus Franz Florentini . He also celebrated the first mass since the Reformation on Horgner Boden on May 28, 1865, which took place in the hall of the Badanstalt on the Bürgli im Lerchen (today's Zugerstrasse 94). For a short time, the services were celebrated on the upper floor of the Cafe Frieden and then from November 1865 to 1872 in the hall of the Weingarten inn . From then on, the Horgen mission station was looked after by the clergy of the parish of Zurich. At the same time, the mission station and later parish of St. Stephan (Männedorf) was built on the right side of the lake . The clergyman, who celebrated Sunday mass in Horgen, then took the steamboat across Lake Zurich to Männedorf to also hold mass there. The times of worship were based on the schedule of the steamboat.

In 1868 the association for the entertainment of the cath. Mission station Horgen founded, the name of which was changed to Kirchenbauverein in 1904 . In Horgen the desire arose for a Catholic church of their own. Since efforts to build a church were also being made in Langnau-Gattikon at the same time, the Inland Mission, which had been founded to finance the building of churches and the livelihood of the clergy in the diaspora, had to decide whether to go to Horgen or Langnau-Gattikon wanted to support the first church building. Since the Catholic population in Horgen was more sedentary than in Langnau-Gattikon (seasonal jobs) and Horgen was also the center of the district , the domestic mission decided to first build the St. Josef church in Horgen and only then in Langnau-Gattikon to build the St. Marien (Langnau am Albis) . In 1870 the first meeting of the building committee for the construction of a Catholic church in Horgen took place. The board of this committee included the Zug doctor Johann Melchior Zürcher-Deschwanden , the founder of the domestic mission, who walked more than 50 times from Zug to Horgen to promote the progress of church building.

In 1869 St. Josef Horgen was declared a parish vicariate by the Catholic parish of Zurich. In the summer of 1870, the building site for the church in Horgen auf Mühlehalden was bought and from the spring of 1871 it was built according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Keller , who later also built the church of St. Marien in Langnau. On September 29, 1872, the first church of St. Josef in Horgen was designated by the auxiliary bishop of Chur, Kaspar Willi . The St. Joseph was the church together later ordained parish because of St. Joseph. As Patron applies the workers and the fathers and the majority of the Catholic population belonged to the workers of the industry of Horgen and surroundings. The first church St. Josef in Horgen had 340 seats. In 1874 St. Josef was declared an independent parish and a rectory was built. In 1902 the club house with classrooms was added.

The Catholic population of Horgen, Oberrieden ZH and Hirzel grew steadily in the first half of the 20th century. In the three parishes there were 698 Catholics in 1890, in 1900 1709 and in 1930 in Horgen and Oberrieden, since Hirzel was assigned to the parish of the Holy Family (Schönenberg ZH) in 1923 , 2,230 Catholics. This increase in the number of Catholics shows that the building of a larger church became more and more urgent. Since the political community did not want to sell the building land east of the Catholic Church, because the district court was to be built there, the Catholics had to make do with the purchase of a strip of land on the southeast side of the old St. Joseph's Church. By demolishing the old church and the rectory, a new church, which was built in a south-easterly direction, could be realized. In 1932 three well-known architects were commissioned to each create a design for a new St. Joseph's Church. These were Adolf Gaudy , Rorschach, Stadler and Winkler, Zug and Anton Higi , Zurich. The latter won the competition and was commissioned in autumn 1932 to draw up the construction plans for the new church. On April 9, 1933, the Catholics decided to demolish the old St. Joseph's Church in favor of the new building. On May 7th, the Protective Feast of St. Joseph, the last service took place in the old church. The demolition work began on May 18 and the church tower was torn down on May 22 . An emergency church was set up in the hall of the club house. On June 2, 1933, the groundbreaking for the construction of the new St. Josef Church took place . On June 24, 1934, the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Chur, Laurenz Matthias Vincenz . The church was consecrated on May 23, 1965 by Bishop Johannes Vonderach . 1967–1968 the old rectory was replaced by a concrete building by architect Götti, Oberrieden / Zurich. In 1978 the church was extensively renovated. The architects A. Dindo and J. Angst, Thalwil directed the construction work, the artistic design of the chancel was entrusted to Peter Travaglini , Büren an der Aare .

  • Statue of the Madonna by Peter Travaglini, 1978

  • Baptismal font from 1978, today outdoors

At the parish assembly on June 9, 2005, a planning loan for a new building of the parish center was approved, half of which was taken over by the St. Josef Foundation . After detailed planning work, the parish assembly on November 28, 2006 approved the loan for the new construction of the parish center. On September 13th and 14th, 2008, the newly built parish center by the architects Dachtler and Rychener was consecrated and opened. On December 10, 2010, the room of silence on the ground floor of the parish center was inaugurated. On March 15, 2016, the parish assembly approved the total renovation of the church including a redesign of the church interior according to plans by the architect Miroslav Šik , who had already designed the parish center of the Church of St. Anthony in Egg . On July 17, 2016, the altar was profaned in a service. The construction work for the total renovation and redesign of the church began in summer 2016 and was completed on the weekend of June 3 and 4, 2017 with the consecration of the altar and church by Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti and former abbot Martin Werlen .

The parish of St. Josef with its 5'821 members (as of 2017) is one of the larger Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.

Building description

Steeple

Church tower and exterior

Located on a plateau above the center of Horgen, the concrete structure of the St. Josef Church, built between 1933 and 1934, rises. The 32 meter high church tower, which is built to the east of the church and whose tower cross is 6.5 meters high, is visible from afar. The tower and the nave are rhythmized by vertical elements and optically aligned towards the sky. The construction material concrete and the design of the church building give the Church of St. Josef a modern gesture with stylistic references to the Bauhaus . Outside there is the statue of the Virgin Mary and the baptismal font by Peter Travaglini from the second equipment of the church from 1978, which were installed next to the church as part of the renovation in 2016.

There was a three-part bell in the roof turret of the old St. Joseph's Church, which had been cast by the Keller bell foundry in Zurich in 1872 and consecrated by Bishop Kaspar Willi. In 1933 this ringing was supplemented by a fourth bell, which was cast by H. Rüetschi , Aarau.

number Weight volume dedication inscription
1 1393 kg g 1 St. Pancras «St. Pankratius, noble hero of faith, protect the innocence of our youth. " 1933
2 908 pounds b 1 Jesus Christ "O rex gloriae Christe veni nobiscum in pace", "Bishop Willi von Chur consecrated three sisters in brazen dress", "Cast by Jakob Keller, Unterstrass, 1872"
3 461 pounds d 2 Our Lady Mary «Ave Maria gratia plena», «Maria, noble and pure, wants to be mother to all»
4th 267 pounds f 2 St. Joseph "Sancte Joseph ora pro nobis", "I am small, but I sound my praise to the Lord"

An exhibition was opened in the church tower in 2009, which shows the history of the parish from 1872 to 1978 on three floors. Objects from parish life and works of art from earlier church furnishings are exhibited .

Interior and artistic equipment

Through the portals on the northwest side of the building, visitors enter the church through an anteroom . It is a single-nave rectangular building that is closed on the southeast side by a circular choir . The fact that the church is not east is explained by the fact that the Catholic parish could not buy the neighboring property for the new, larger church. The ceiling of the church is structured by concrete girders, a construction method that architect Anton Higi also used in the Brother Klaus church (Zurich-Unterstrass) built between 1932 and 1933 . The arched windows in the nave allow the daylight, subdued by the stained glass windows, to penetrate into the church.

Original design

The elongated church space underlined the concept of the Wegkirche until the renovation of the church in 1978 : The church symbolized the path of the believer from the baptistery at the entrance portal of the church through the nave to the chancel, the place of the mass and the real presence of God in the consecrated hosts in the Tabernacle . The tabernacle came from Meinrad Burch-Korrodi , a renowned goldsmith and art locksmith. To the left and right of the choir there were two side altars (to the left of Our Lady , to the right consecrated to St. Joseph), above which monumental figures were enthroned, which were later exhibited in the tower museum and have been returned to their original location since the redesign of the church in 2017. The altar area was separated from the nave by a communion bench and stairs. The high altar was on the round choir wall and had a simple crucifix above the tabernacle housing .

Design between 1978 and 2016

Interior view 1978–2016

After the concrete facade of the tower and the church began to crumble in 1970, the exterior of the church was first renovated. From 1974 the planning for a redesign of the interior began. The liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council emphasized the unity of believers and priests. In a Way Church of the 1930s, this requirement was not easy to implement. The architects A. Dindo and J. Angst, Thalwil, renovated the church, while Peter Travaglini , Büren an der Aare, was commissioned to redesign the altar area. Travaglini replaced the two side altars and the high altar with a popular altar , which was placed in front of the actual choir of the church. In this way the community of believers and priests was given spatial expression. To optimize the view from the pews, the people's altar was raised five steps from the floor of the nave. To the left of the altar was the baptismal font , the water of which flowed down seven steps. The Easter candle stood on the baptismal font . On the opposite side in front of the south-eastern wall of the nave, Our Lady sat on the same step with the baby Jesus and looked out over the church service congregation. The ambo was set up to the left of the altar , behind the altar on the right side the tabernacle, on the casing of which bread and fish could be seen. The priest's seat and a cross with apostle candles were in the choir room . Vicar General Hans Henny inaugurated the newly designed church on December 17, 1978.

Design since 2017

Miroslav Šik completely redesigned the interior of the St. Josef Church as part of the renovation work from 2016 to 2017, creating a symbiosis between the architecture by Anton Higi from the 1930s and the modern furnishings. The most noticeable change happened in the choir. The walls, which were previously painted white, now have 18,000 letters carved into the damp plaster using the sgraffito technique and proclaiming a text from the Gospel of Matthew in German and Latin. The altar, ambo, tabernacle column and baptismal font are made of Ticino granite, the materiality of which is linked to the shape of the original church floor. The door of the tabernacle, the gospel holder, the candlesticks and the liturgical utensils are made of brass that has been given a surface embossing that is reminiscent of crumpled paper. The metalwork takes on the shapes of papyrus rolls and thus re-establishes a connection to the biblical inscription on the walls of the choir room. The old, dark pews were replaced by new ones made of light ash wood , on which the daylight falls, which penetrates through the stained glass windows that were preserved from the first furnishing period and thus creates a different color effect depending on the time of day. When the Kuhn organ was dismantled in 1979, the rose window was exposed again, which remains visible thanks to the smaller organ prospect of the new organ, which will be installed in 2018. By relocating the rear wall under the organ gallery by two meters, the entrance area could be enlarged so that a family room and a small chapel could be built in. The statues of Mary and Joseph have been preserved from the first church furnishings and are now attached to the front of the main nave on both sides of the choir.

Organs

Späth organ (1934–1979)

A mechanical instrument made by Späth Orgelbau was set up in the old St. Josefskirche . When the church was rebuilt in 1934, this organ was expanded by 11  stops and rebuilt in the organ gallery. 26 registers are distributed over two manuals including pedal .

Disposition of the Späth organ 1934:

I Manual C-g 3
Principle 8th'
Viol 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Dolce 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture IV-V 8th'
Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C-g 3
Lovely Gedackt 16 ′
Violin principal 8th'
Concert flute 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Saliconal 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Transverse flute 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Cornett 8th'
oboe 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 16 ′
Echo bass 16 ′
Flute bass 8th'
cello 8th'
trombone 16 ′

Kuhn organ (1979-2016)

Kuhn organ from 1979

After the renovation of the church in 1978, the Kuhn company built a new organ . The mechanical organ had 29 registers, distributed over two manuals including a pedal. The breastwork originally contained a wooden shelf 16 ′, which was replaced by a Sesquialter II in 1980. In 1999 the organ was revised. Since the reverberation in the church was also reduced from 6.5 seconds to 3.5 and then to 3 seconds during this time , the organ sound had to be adapted to the new acoustics of the room. The principal 8 ′ in the main work was re-voiced and the cymbals (BW) and the mixture (HW) in the high registers were taken back a little. The wind pressure was increased slightly. As part of the church redesign in 2016, the Kuhn organ was dismantled in the church. In 2018 it will be replaced by an instrument from Metzler Orgelbau , Dietikon with 38 registers.

Disposition Kuhn organ 1979:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Pommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Viol 8th'
octave 4 ′
Hollow flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork
(swellable) C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ and 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
octave 2 ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 16 ′
Principal 16 ′
octave 8th'
Pointed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Rauschpfeife IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
bassoon 16 ′
prong 8th'
shawm 4 ′
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : Stand trumpet (HW), mixture (HW), bassoon (Ped), prong (Ped)

Room of silence

Room of silence

With the new construction of the parish center in 2008, a room of silence was also created on its ground floor. The meditation window Becoming - Passing - Death - Resurrection , donated by the political community of Horgen, was designed by the artist Roman Candio, Zurich. On December 10, 2010, Gaudete Sunday, the Room of Silence was inaugurated.

literature

  • Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. Horgen 1934.
  • Erhard Schweri: History of the Roman Catholic Parish Horgen. On the occasion of the 100th parish anniversary 1874-1974. Horgen 1974.
  • Catholic Parish Horgen (Ed.): Church of St. Josef Horgen. Renovation 1978. Horgen 1978.
  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
  • Roman Catholic parish Horgen (ed.): Church consecration St. Josef 2017. Horgen 2017.

Web links

Commons : Church Josef Horgen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 215.
  2. ↑ Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. P. 7.
  3. ↑ Roman Catholic parish of Horgen (ed.): Kirchweihe St. Josef 2017. p. 7.
  4. ↑ Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. Pp. 8-9.
  5. ↑ Roman Catholic parish of Horgen (ed.): Kirchweihe St. Josef 2017. p. 7.
  6. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 215.
  7. ↑ Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. Pp. 8-9.
  8. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 215.
  9. ↑ Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. Pp. 13–16 and 20
  10. ^ Catholic parish Horgen (ed.): Church of St. Josef Horgen. Renovation 1978. pp. 43 and 52-57.
  11. ^ Catholic parish Horgen (ed.): Church of St. Josef Horgen. Renovation 1978. p. 18.
  12. ^ Archives of the parish of St. Joseph.
  13. ↑ Zürichsee-Zeitung of March 17, 2016. Accessed July 27, 2016.
  14. ^ Website of the Catholic parish St. Josef Horgen, section Current. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  15. ^ Website of the parish, section Altar and church consecration. ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2017 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 July 19, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kath-horgen.ch
  16. ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017, p. 83.
  17. ↑ Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. Pp. 17–18 and 20.
  18. ↑ Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. P. 19
  19. ↑ Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. Pp. 17-18 and 23.
  20. ^ Catholic parish Horgen (ed.): Church of St. Josef Horgen. Renovation 1978. p. 18.
  21. ↑ Article from the ZSZ of May 29, 2017. Retrieved on April 19, 2018.
  22. ↑ Beatrix Ledergerber: Light in the stone . In: Forum , parish gazette of the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich, No. 12 from June 2018, pp. 4–5.
  23. ↑ Johann Salzmann (Ed.): The Catholic parish of Horgen and its new St. Joseph's Church. P. 18.
  24. ^ Organ directory Switzerland / Liechtenstein. Section Catholic Church St. Josef, organ 1950 Horgen ZH. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  25. ^ Organ directory Switzerland / Liechtenstein. Section Catholic Church St. Josef, organ 1979 Horgen ZH. Retrieved October 5, 2014.

Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '29.8 "  N , 8 ° 35' 53.2"  E ; CH1903:  687,758  /  234799