St. Josef (Schlieren)

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Church of St. Joseph, bell tower
Exterior view from the south

The Church of St. Josef is the Roman Catholic parish church of Schlieren in the canton of Zurich . It is on the corner of Uitikonerstrasse and Dammweg .

history

prehistory

First mentioned in 828 as Sleiron (= "river scree ") there was a church dedicated to St. Agatha at the latest from the High Middle Ages . In 1245 there was a conflict between Rudolf d. J. von Habsburg and the abbess of the Fraumünster in Zurich . The decision recognized the church as a branch church of St. Peter the Fraumünster, the bailiwick above it to the Count of Habsburg. In 1259, the Habsburgs sold their goods in Dietikon and Schlieren, including the courts and bailiwick, to the Wettingen monastery via the Muris people , with the exception of church patronage , customs and the rights accruing from the county. In 1378 St. Agatha Schlieren was incorporated into the hospital in Zurich and subject to a tithing obligation . On November 19, 1498, Schlieren was contractually promised its own priest , who was to be proposed to the Bishop of Constance by the hospital caretakers and the master . In 1511, shortly before the Reformation , Schlieren became an independent parish. Since St. Agatha Schlieren, like 38 other parishes, belonged to the Deanery of St. Peter Zurich, after the Reformation in Zurich, starting in 1523, the celebration of Catholic services in Schlieren was prohibited. From then on, the medieval church of Schlieren continued to be used as a reformed church.

Development and construction history

For the first time since the Reformation, the Edict of Tolerance of 1807 allowed the celebration of Catholic worship again, albeit limited locally to the city of Zurich. As part of the Swiss federal state's freedom of establishment and religion in 1848, Catholics were able to settle in the traditionally Reformed canton of Zurich. In 1850 there were 15 Catholics in Schlieren. The construction of the Spanish Brötli Railway and the resulting accelerated industrialization in the Limmat Valley prompted the first Catholics from the predominantly Catholic cantons, but also from neighboring countries, to settle in Schlieren. Since the parity church of St. Agatha was located in the neighboring parish of Dietikon , the Catholics of Schlieren were able to attend the services in Dietikon. When the parish Heilig Kreuz was founded in Altstetten in 1899 , Schlieren was assigned to the parish in Altstetten. The rapidly increasing Catholic population of Schlieren prompted those responsible to purchase a building plot for an emergency church in Schlieren as early as 1907 . As a result of the First World War , however, the church building planned in 1914 was delayed by several years. When the St. Josef Chapel was completed in December 1923 according to plans by the renowned architect Adolf Gaudy , Rorschach, the Bishop of Chur , Georg Schmid von Grüneck , appointed Schlieren as an independent parish on December 27, 1923. The newly established Schlieren parish also included the villages of Urdorf , Unter- and Oberengstringen as well as Weiningen ZH and Fahrweid . On December 20, 1923, the St. Josef Chapel was assigned by Dean Meyer, Winterthur . In 1930 the rectory was built next to the St. Joseph Chapel. In 1943 the parish members from Oberengstringen were assigned to the newly founded Heilig Geist parish in Zurich-Höngg. From 1945 the establishment of a parish in Urdorf was started. In 1947 a building site was purchased in Urdorf. When the Catholic population of Schlieren continued to grow after the Second World War , the construction of a large church in Schlieren was an urgent necessity. This meant that the parish had to tackle two church building projects. The St. Josef Church Foundation was established for Schlieren on June 5, 1953, and a church building association for Urdorf was set up on July 5, 1954. Since Urdorf hoped that a connection to the parish of St. Agatha Dietikon would enable its own church to be built more quickly, Urdorf separated from St. Josef Schlieren in 1955. From then on, the forces concentrated in Schlieren to build their own church. On October 22, 1955, a building commission was appointed and an architectural competition was announced. This was a non-public competition to which four well-known church architects from Zurich were invited: Fritz Metzger (builder of the Maria Lourdes (Zurich-Seebach) , St. Felix and Regula (Zurich-Hard) and St. Theresia ( Zurich-Friesenberg) ), Karl Strobel (builder of the Church of the Redeemer (Zurich-Riesbach) and the first Church of the Holy Spirit Zurich-Höngg), Karl Higi (builder, among others, of Allerheiligen (Zurich-Neuaffoltern) , Ingenbohl Monastery and the second Church of the Holy Spirit Zurich-Höngg) and Alois Moser (builder of the churches of St. Maria Würenlos and Brother Klaus Killwangen, among others) On June 13, 1957, the Concha project was selected for execution by architect Karl Higi. Initially, the Catholics of Schlieren wanted to build the new church more in the center of Schlieren, but this could not be realized for two reasons: Some building plots were too expensive, the others were not suitable for the Catholics to build their new church left. That is why those responsible in the parish decided to keep the building site of the St. Joseph's Chapel for the new construction of the St. Joseph's Church, which had two advantages for the parish: On the one hand, the rectory could remain right next to the church, and on the other hand, the building site made it possible to go far clearly visible church. When the local council of Schlieren approved the building application for the Catholic parish in 1958, it did so under a number of conditions. a. that the church tower should be planned less high. Because the building site for the new church had to be cleared, but the St. Josef Chapel could be dismantled and thus still be used, it was dismantled in 1958 and sold to the parish of Sulgen in Thurgau. This built the St. Josef Chapel in Bürglen TG , where it still stands today (as of 2014). On April 12, 1959, was made groundbreaking ceremony for the new closing Remer Church by the emigrated Hungarian army bishop Hahsz. The construction of the Church of St. Josef was then carried out according to plans by architect Karl Higi. On March 6, 1960, the newly cast bells at the foot of the church tower were consecrated and on March 9, around 1,000 students from Schlieren and the surrounding towns raised the church tower. On March 27, 1960, the Church of St. Joseph was consecrated by Bishop Christian Caminada . When the newly built St. Mauritius Church in Oberengstringen was completed in 1964, the Catholics of Unterengstringen who had remained with St. Josef Schlieren up to that point were assigned to the newly founded parish of Oberengstringen. In 1975 the exterior of the St. Josef Schlieren church was renovated. When in 1978 the property Uitikonerstrasse 32 on the opposite side of the street was acquired, the parish began planning its own parish center. This was built between 1982 and 1983 and opened on August 21. In 2010 the interior of the church was renovated. Between 2003 and 2016, the parish of St. Josef, together with the parishes of St. Agatha (Dietikon) and St. Josef (Dietikon), belonged to the Dietikon-Schlieren pastoral care area, which was dissolved again in 2016. One of the reasons for the abolition of the pastoral care room was the rapid growth of the resident population in the Limmat Valley. The church tower was renovated in 2016 and the parish will build the new parish center by 2019.

The parish of St. Josef with its 6,709 members (as of 2017) is one of the medium-sized Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.

Naming

The St. Joseph is the patron of workers and family men. Since many Catholic working-class families had moved to Schlieren, the Schlierem Chapel, built in 1923, together with the parish belonging to it, was consecrated to St. Joseph.

Church buildings

St. Joseph's Chapel (1923-1958)

Bell from 1738

Architect Adolf Gaudy built the St. Josef's Chapel on what was then Obere Uitikonerstrasse on sloping terrain. For topographical reasons, St. Josef's Chapel was not faced , but faced south. It was a single-aisled building that carried a roof turret for the St. Josefsglöcklein above the chancel . The church was closed on the south side by a retracted choir , which had two polygonal ox eyes to the left and right of the high altar . The outer wall cladding of the chapel consisted of Eternit panels .

The former bell of the St. Joseph's Chapel is now on the south side of the St. Joseph's Church. It was cast in 1738 and bears the inscription ET VERBUM FACTUM EST (= And the word came true) according to Joh 1, 14. After the dismantling of the St. Josef Chapel in 1958, the chapel was moved to the canton of Thurgau , the St. On the other hand, the Josefsglocke remained as a memory of the chapel in Schlieren.

St. Joseph's Church (from 1960)

Church tower and exterior

Today's St. Josef Church is located south of Schlieren's city center on the corner of Uitikonerstrasse and Dammweg, directly on the embankment of the railway line from Zurich to Zug . The 33 meter high white concrete church tower rises above the town of Schlieren, visible from afar, so that the location of the church can be seen from afar. The tower has had a church clock with a striking mechanism since 1962 . Via stairs and paths, visitors can get from the lower streets to the church square and the church. The church of St. Josef is an elliptical concrete building with a copper-covered dome, which is reminiscent of a scallop shell . The altar is located under the roof of St. Joseph's Church where the pearl sits on a shell . The visitor reaches the main portal of the church under a canopy.

The bell for St. Josef's Church comes from the H. Rüetschi foundry , Aarau and was cast there on January 13, 1960. The five bells are coordinated with the chimes of the reformed church Schlieren.

number Weight volume dedication
1 1410 kg it 1 Trinity
2 970 kg f 1 Assumpta (Mother of God)
3 590 kg as 1 St. Joseph
4th 395 kg b 1 St. Agatha
5 290 kg c 2 Guardian Angel

Interior and artistic equipment

inside view

The elliptical interior has 500 seats. Since the church does not have columns , the church offers a clear view of the chancel from all seats. The pews are arranged in a semicircle and align with the altar , the architectural center of the church. The walls and the ceiling are plastered and painted light, the floor is made of Ticino granite . A band of stained glass windows follows the rising church roof on the east side and lets subdued daylight enter the church. The altar was originally designed in the pre-Vatican style as a high altar , but from the beginning it stood slightly away from the choir wall. So it could remain in its place even after the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council and be used as a popular altar . In the early days the tabernacle was still on the altar and communion pews made of granite separated the sanctuary from the nave. After the liturgical reform, the communion pews were dismantled and the tabernacle was placed on the left side of the altar on a newly created granite plinth. At the same time, an ambo was placed to the right of the altar . On the choir wall is a fire-gilded cross by artist Ferdinand Hasler, Altstätten . By Ferdinand Gehr stained-glass windows, sculptors come Josef Rickenbacher , Steinen SZ carved the church patron, the St. Joseph.. Another important design element under the organ gallery is the baptismal font , which, in contrast to most other pre-Vatican churches, was not initially set up in the rear area of ​​the church, but was located next to the altar area from the start.

During the interior renovation of the church in 2010, 7 large ceiling sails and wooden elements were installed in the rear part of the church to improve the acoustics of the church.

organ

Späth organ from 1989

In 1959 the first instrument was built by the organ building company Späth , Rapperswil. It was an organ with 22  registers , which was completely overhauled in 1975. Since the organ became more and more fragile in the 1980s, the parish decided, after clarifications by a convened organ commission, to replace the existing instrument with a new organ. When the company Orgelbau Späth submitted the inexpensive proposal to build a new instrument using the still usable elements of the previous organ, the company was awarded the contract for the new organ. The main differences between the two organs are the move away from a free-standing pipe brochure to a traditional construction with an organ case and the change from a tube-pneumatic pocket organ to a mechanical slide organ . The pipe material was largely taken over and supplemented by three new registers. The Späth organ, built in 1989, has 25 stops on two manuals including a pedal . On June 25, 1989 the organ concert was held, including an organ concert by Father Ambros Koch, Fischingen Monastery .

Disposition of the Späth organ:

Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Dumped 8th'
octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 2 '
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
Swell C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Flageolet 2 ′
Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ and 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Dacked bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Rauschbass III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′

Twin church

The Brother Klaus Basel (built 1959–1961) church, built at the same time as the St. Josef Schlieren church, is almost identical in construction and also by architect Karl Higi . Both churches are elliptical concrete structures with a free-standing bell tower and glass windows by Ferdinand Gehr. Unlike St. Josef Schlieren, there is a parish hall and a weekday chapel in the basement of the Brother Klaus church.

literature

  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
  • R. Binz: 75 years parish St. Josef Schlieren 1924-1999. Schlieren 1999.
  • Association for local history Schlieren (Ed.): Houses of God and inns in Schlieren. Yearbook 2007. Schlieren 2007. pp. 25–39.

Web links

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

Parish website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 246.
  2. ^ R. Binz: 75 years parish St. Josef Schlieren 1924-1999. P. 1.
  3. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate CHur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 246.
  4. ^ R. Binz: 75 years parish St. Josef Schlieren 1924-1999. P. 2.
  5. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (Hrs.g): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 246.
  6. ^ R. Binz: 75 years parish St. Josef Schlieren 1924-1999. Pp. 2-3.
  7. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 246.
  8. ^ R. Binz: 75 years parish St. Josef Schlieren 1924-1999. Pp. 2-7.
  9. ^ Association for local history Schlieren (ed.): Houses of God and inns in Schlieren. P. 34.
  10. ^ Website of the parish of Sulgen, section Church of St. Josef Bürglen. ( Memento of the original from December 26, 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 26, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kathsulgen.ch
  11. ↑ Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (ed.) Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 246.
  12. ^ R. Binz: 75 years parish St. Josef Schlieren 1924-1999. Pp. 2-7
  13. ^ Website of the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
  14. ^ Archives of the parish. Retrieved July 5, 2017
  15. ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. p. 84.
  16. ^ Association for local history Schlieren (ed.): Houses of God and inns in Schlieren. Pp. 28-30.
  17. ^ Association for local history Schlieren (ed.): Houses of God and inns in Schlieren. P. 38.
  18. ^ Association for local history Schlieren (ed.): Houses of God and inns in Schlieren. P. 39.
  19. ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Section Catholic Church St. Josef, new organ, Schlieren ZH. Retrieved September 26, 2014.

Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '37.8 "  N , 8 ° 26' 56.28"  O ; CH1903:  676,277  /  249,714