St. Catherine of Siena (Fällanden)
The Church of St. Catherine of Siena is the Roman Catholic parish church of Fällanden . The associated parish clerkship is responsible for the village of Fällanden and the two former court settlements of Benglen and Pfaffhausen . It is the only church that was consecrated in the diocese of Chur to the mystic and church teacher Catherine of Siena (born March 25, 1347 in Siena, † April 29, 1380 in Rome).
history
prehistory
The Fraumünster , which, together with the Grossmünster, represented the two large ecclesiastical monasteries located in the city of Zurich , came to Fällanden in the 9th and 10th centuries in large numbers of servants , landlord rights and land. During this time, the Grossmünsterstift in Fällanden was entitled to only a few smaller goods, but all the greater parts of the tithe . Archaeological excavations in Fällanden document the construction of the first field chapel around the year 810, which was first mentioned in a document in 1271. This church was expanded to include an entrance to the west in 1371 and a new choir was added to the east in 1428 . In 1488 an extensive renovation took place with the installation of the choir stalls . Since then, the church with the red-shingled roof turret has shaped the village image. As part of the Reformation in Zurich, after 1523, Catholic worship was banned in Zürichbiet and the Fällanden Church was used for Reformed worship. Today's Reformed Church of Fällanden emerged from this medieval church building.
When the daily statute was held in Zurich in 1807 , the so-called Edict of Tolerance came about , which allowed Catholic services for the first time, albeit with a local restriction. From 1833, Catholic services could be celebrated in Fraumünster Zurich. In 1842 the Augustinian Church was made available to the Catholics living in Zurich . When the Zurich Catholics protested against the infallibility dogma on June 8, 1873, the majority of them converted to the newly founded Christian Catholic Church , which meant that those who remained in the Roman Catholic Church had to build a new church. So in 1874 the church of St. Peter and Paul in Zurich-Aussersihl was built, which became the Roman Catholic mother parish of the city and region of Zurich, which also includes Fällanden with Pfaffhausen and Benglen. The parish Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon was established from St. Peter and Paul Zurich-Aussersihl in 1894, from which the later parish Maria Frieden was founded in Dübendorf. In 1897, the first Catholic church service since the Reformation took place in Dübendorf, initially in the dance hall of the Kreuz restaurant . In 1902, the Catholic parish bought one at the Wilstrasse situated former shepherd's hut , which for 50 years as a rectory and Notkapelle served. The chapel was consecrated on December 21, 1902. In 1904 Dübendorf was promoted to parish rectorate and on December 7, 1926 to parish and separated from Herz Jesu Zürich-Oerlikon. When the population and the number of Catholics continued to rise after the Second World War , a new building in Dübendorf became necessary. The foundation stone of the church was laid on August 27, 1950, and on April 27, 1952, the Bishop of Chur Christian Caminada consecrated the church in honor of Mary, Queen of Peace .
Development and construction history
Since the establishment of the pastoral care station in Dübendorf in 1902, the Catholics of Fällanden as well as those of Schwerzenbach have been looked after from Dübendorf. Pfaffhausen, on the other hand, initially belonged to the parish of St. Anton in Zurich-Hottingen and from 1957 to the newly founded parish of Maria Krönung in Zurich-Witikon. When building activity began in the Zurich region in the 1960s and 1970s, the number of Catholics in Fällanden and Pfaffhausen also rose. In Benglen, which consisted of only a few farms, houses and single-family housing estates were built from the 1970s, which also attracted a number of Catholics there. These construction activities prompted the Dübendorf parish to purchase land in 1966 for the construction of today's church in Fällanden. However, it took another 25 years to complete the church. For this purpose, the Dübendorf parish bought premises in Benglen in 1973 in the local district center, which from then on were used for church purposes. Overall, however, the Catholics from Fällanden, Benglen and Pfaffhausen found the situation to be unsatisfactory, which is why committed Catholics from these three places formed a group in the 1970s that campaigned for an improvement of the pastoral situation. A contact group prepared an explanatory report on the pastoration of the three places and, in consultation with the parishes of Maria Krönung Zurich-Witikon and Maria Frieden Dübendorf, contacted the Vicariate General Zurich and the leadership of the Diocese of Chur. On March 13, 1975, the contact group called on Bishop Johannes Vonderach and submitted the request for their own parish. The bishop reacted quickly and appointed Fällanden as parish vicariate on September 1, 1975, belonging to the parish of Maria Frieden Dübendorf. Benglen and Pfaffhausen were also assigned to the parish vicariate of Fällanden, separating Pfaffhausen from the parish of Maria Krönung Witikon. The bishop appointed a pastor for the newly founded parish vicariate, who took up residence on site and, in consultation with the parish of Maria Frieden, set up pastoral care for Fällanden, Benglen and Pfaffhausen. As there was no church of its own in Fällanden at that time, the services in Fällanden were held in the Zil cemetery chapel . In Pfaffhausen, services were held in the Bommern schoolhouse in the early years , and in Benglen in the multi-purpose room of the Buechwis schoolhouse . In order to advance the development of the parish vicariate, the church of St. Catherine of Siena including the parish center was built in Fällanden in the years 1990–1992 by the architects Peter Brader & Urs Nüesch. On May 12, 1991 the church was consecrated by Abbot Dominikus Löpfe from the Muri-Gries monastery . In 2011 the parish sold the rooms in Benglen because they were no longer needed because of the parish center and the church in Fällanden.
The parish of Dübendorf, to which Fällanden, Benglen and Pfaffhausen belong under constitutional law, is the third largest Catholic parish in the canton of Zurich after Winterthur and Uster with 11,707 members (as of 2017).
Naming
The patronage of the church in Fällanden was determined by grassroots democracy. The parish council of Fällanden decided at the meeting on April 18, 1985 to submit four proposals to the population and to let them vote on them. For this purpose, 1000 cards were sent out with the parish gazette, of which 112 cards were returned containing 252 votes. Of the votes cast, 33 votes were for St. Dominic, 38 votes for Redeemer, 52 votes for St. Don Bosco and 122 votes for St. Catherine of Siena.
Building description
Exterior
The church is located on the eastern outskirts of Fällanden and borders on the regionally important, cantonal nature reserve at Greifensee . Coming from the Sunnetalstrasse , a straight path leads from the street to the church of St. Catherine of Siena. The church building is closed off by saddle and gable roofs and is deliberately kept low as a transition to the nature reserve. The bell tower towers over the church building and gives the width of the building a vertical counterweight.
The three church towers
The church stands on the historical axis Orient - Occident, which is marked with the two O in the symbol. In addition to the clearly visible bell tower, the church has two other pillar-like towers that encompass the interior of the church and their design reflects the building philosophy of the architects Peter Brader (project management) and Urs Nüesch. The towers lie on the east-west path of the sun and symbolize the relationships between size, tone, color and time. The middle tower has a height of 7.24 m, which the architect Peter Brader derived from the daily rhythm : 1 day = 86,400 seconds, this basis as a vibration octaved 25 times, results in the tone G with 388 Hertz. An orange-red color appears 65 octaves. The height dimension is calculated from the basic grid (2.56 by 2.56 m) over the diagonal 2.56 m by the root 2 × 2 = 7.24 m. The altar tower was derived from the annual rhythm : 1 year = 31556925.9747 seconds, this basis as a vibration octaved 32 times, results in the tone C sharp with 136 Hertz. When octaved 74 times, a green color appears. The height measure is calculated with the daily storm: G: Cis 45/32 = tritone. Height of daily tower of 7.24 times 45/32 = 10.18 meters. Finally, the bell tower is derived from the Platonic year . 1 platonic year = 25,920 years, this basis as a vibration octaved 47 times, results in the tone F with 127 Hertz. Ultraviolet appears 89 octaves. The height is calculated in connection with the daily storm: G: f 9/5 = minor seventh. Height of the day tower of 7.24 times 9/5 = 13.03 meters.
In 2012, the originally open bell tower was enclosed. The wooden cladding has LED lighting that discreetly illuminates the transparent tower at night, depending on the phase of the church year, in the liturgical colors of green, red, purple, pink and yellow.
| number | Weight | diameter | volume | dedication | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 688 kg | 108 cm | G | Jesus Christ | "PAX DOMINI SIT SEMPER VOBISCUM" = "Peace be with you" |
| 2 | 499 kg | 96 cm | a | Mother of God | "SANCTA MARIA, MATER DEI, ORA PRO NOBIS PECCATORIBUS" = Holy Mary, pray for us sinners " |
| 3 | 279 kg | 80 cm | c 2 | Catherine of Siena | "SANCTA KATHARINA, PATRONA ECCLESIAE, ORA PRO NOBIS" = Saint Catherine, Patroness of the Church, pray for us " |
| 4th | 211 kg | 72 cm | d 2 | Brother Klaus | "NICOLAUS DE FLUE PATER PATRIEAE PROMOTOR PACIS" = Nikolaus von Flüe, father of the homeland, promoter of peace " |
Interior and artistic equipment
The parish center includes church, hall, office and common rooms, whereby the basement is barely noticeably embedded in the ground due to a slight elevation of the ground floor. The building was built on the human step of 64 cm. By doubling the dimensions, musically octaving, the basic grid of 2.56 m was created. The truss-like space framework, supported on a solid construction that reaches up to 2.56 meters above the ground floor level, spans the church space, the hall and various annex buildings as a roof construction. The side closures as well as the room dividing elements consist of level framework , which also serves as a support for the space framework. The entire system consists of board-glued wooden rods, which are connected by heavy-duty steel ball nodes with fork-like brackets and fitting bolts. This construction was awarded the European glued laminated timber construction prize in 1991.
Shell construction of the tower
Shell construction of the roof structure
Steel ball knot for space framework
Column for roof construction
Historical Orient-Occident axis
The cornerstone
From Sunnetalstrasse , the visitor arrives directly under the bell tower and into the foyer of the building. The hall is on the left, the exit to the basement on the right. A portal designed by the artist Franco Giulio Giacomel leads straight ahead into the church. The diagonal ends in front of the altar of the church. On the entrance portal to the church a velum is depicted, which hides the mystery of the lamb (depicted on the large stained glass window behind the altar). If you open the entrance portal, the Velum reveals the lamb of God .
The chancel was designed by Peter Brader and Urs Nüesch. The baptismal font , altar , ambo and tabernacle have fair-faced concrete plinths on which bearers made of raw steel rest, on which the altar plate, the tabernacle housing and the reading desk of the anvil are made of polished maggia granite. In the weekday chapel there is another, identically designed altar. The proportions of the two altars were derived from the overtone series of the G tone. The tabernacle has doors by Franco Giulio Giacomel. These show a silver Holy Spirit dove on the right; the second dove, coming from the left, symbolizes the human soul . This connects "in the reception of the master's body with the divine", just as the human dove unites with the divine on the tabernacle door.
The votive candlestick in the weekday chapel was made by the Basel artist Ludwig Stocker . The candlestick is based on "harmonic considerations and wants to be a mediator of prayers through energy lines and concentration points."
The ceiling design was designed by Peter Brader and Urs Nüesch. The ceiling panels connect the daily and annual storms, with the color changing from red tones to yellow and blue-free green.
In 2009, the church received a lecture cross and four altar candlesticks created by Josef Caminada . In 2013 the lighting in the church was renewed so that it is now possible to create all the light settings required for the liturgy.
Portal by Franco Giulio Giacomel
Holy water font by Peter Brader
tabernacle
Baptismal font
Lecture cross by Josef Caminada
Candlestick by Ludwig Stocker
Stained glass window of St. Catherine
Stained glass window
The three glass windows of the church were designed by the Zurich artist Franco Giulio Giacomel.
Above the entrance door is the west window , which shows the church patroness, St. Catherine of Siena, between her fellow sisters. She is the only one kneeling and only her is a halo . St. Catherine is part of the community and, with her kneeling position, invites you to pray and devotion.
The choir window thematizes the mystery of the Lamb, as mentioned in the mystical writings of St. Catherine of Siena. She speaks of the sweet lamb and the sweet blood of the lamb. On the church window, the abstraction of the sacrificed lamb as the body of Christ is shown , "whose side, opened by the lance, represents the center of life: love, life and death."
The third glass window is in the weekday chapel and shows the story of creation in an abstract way. The colors and shapes can be read from left to right, resulting in an increase in shapes and colors.
In the entrance area of the church there has been a glass window from the first Church of the Holy Spirit in Zurich-Höngg since 2016 . The stained glass window dates from 1940 and was privately owned after the church was demolished in 1971. The window was purchased on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Church of St. Catherine. It shows St. Catherine with a crown and a palm branch.
organ
In the first few years after the church was built, there was an electronic organ in the gallery . Since this instrument was not very convincing musically, the search for a high-quality pipe organ began.
Today's organ is an instrument that the organ building company Kuhn built in 1981 for the parish of the Stadtkirche Winterthur . This organ was made for the lessons of the organ students at the Winterthur Conservatory , who had to move to the parish hall during the renovation of the church and who needed an adequate instrument for teaching. The organ was also used for the services that took place in the parish hall during the church renovation. After the completion of the renovation work, the organ was taken back by the Kuhn company from the parish and subsequently served as a training instrument for the company's employees. In 2000 the parish of Dübendorf purchased the instrument for the Church of St. Katharina Fällanden. The organ was adapted to the architectural and color conditions of the church by Kuhn Organ Builders before it was installed. It has eleven registers distributed over two manuals and a pedal .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Structure of the organ
Installation of the organ pipes
literature
- Eduard Schuler: Catholic parish Dübendorf, jubilee year 1977. Festschrift for the jubilee. Dübendorf 1977.
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center of St. Catherine of Siena, Fällanden. Information brochure and cultural guide. Fällanden 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the political municipality of Fällanden, section history. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ Website of the reformed parish Fällanden, section Building history of our church. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ↑ Josef Hürlimann: Chilebuech Wangen-Brüttisellen. P. 169.
- ^ Alois Ender, in: Catholic Parish Dübendorf. 1977, p. 27.
- ↑ The three award-winning Swiss properties (p. 204) . In: Zeitschrift Schweizer Ingenieur und Architekt , February 28, 1991. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
- ^ Archives of the Catholic parish in Dübendorf
- ^ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Annual report 2017. p. 82.
- ^ Archives of the parish rivicariat
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. P. 2.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. Pp. 8-9.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. P. 5.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. P. 10.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. P. 11.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. P. 14.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. P. 14.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. P. 12.
- ^ Parish of Dübendorf-Fällanden-Schwerzenbach (ed.): The parish center St. Katharina von Siena, Fällanden. P. 13.
- ^ Orgelbau Kuhn: Organ in St. Katharina Fällanden , accessed on January 15, 2014.
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '17.1 " N , 8 ° 38' 39.4" E ; CH1903: 691,059 / 247429