St. Leonhard (Feuerthalen)
The St. Leonhard Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Feuerthalen in the Andelfingen district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . Together with the Church of St. Plazidus and Sigisbert in Kleinandelfingen and the Church of Liebfrauen in Oberstammheim, it belongs to the pastoral care area Andelfingen-Feuerthalen.
history
History and naming
In the Middle Ages there was a chapel in Feuerthalen that was dedicated to St. Leonhard . This patronage is explained by the fact that Feuerthalen is on the way from Schaffhausen to Winterthur and St. Leonhard u. a. is also the patron saint of carters and horses. Exactly when the church was built is not certain, as the existing older files were burned during the fire in Schaffhausen in 1372. It is certain that the St. Leonhard Chapel in Feuerthalen already existed in the 14th century and was looked after by the St. Johann parish church in Schaffhausen.
After the Reformation in Zurich from 1523, the chapel in Feuerthalen was profaned and served as a shed, temporarily as an apartment. The residents of Feuerthalen were henceforth church after Laufen . From 1628 to 1629 the former chapel of Feuerthalen was renovated and then used again for Reformed cultic purposes. On November 3, 1675, the Zurich government elevated the Feuerthalen branch to a Reformed parish church. The individual Catholics who lived in the region, on the other hand, had the opportunity to attend Catholic services in the Paradies and Rheinau monastery churches . When, from the middle of the 19th century, in the course of industrialization and freedom of establishment, more Catholics settled in the northern wine country, they were looked after by the Catholic parishes of Santa Maria (Schaffhausen) and St. Cross in Neuhausen.
Development and construction history
Around 1860 there were 60 Catholics living in what is now the parish of Feuerthalen. In the 20th century their number increased, so that after the Second World War the desire arose for their own parish. The lack of financial resources made the search for a suitable building site and the planning of an appropriate church difficult. In the 1960s, the aid organization Fastenopfer planned a prototype of an emergency church , the later Fastenopfer Church , which, although inexpensive, should also represent an appropriate church space.
However, since this project had not yet been completed and the construction of a church in Feuerthalen seemed urgent, the community had to look for an alternative. Vicar General Alfred Teobaldi made those responsible in Feuerthalen aware of the St. Georg emergency church in Elgg in autumn 1964 . A tour of this church showed that this place of worship could be used as a prototype for Feuerthalen. In 1965 the first meeting of the building commission for a church in Feuerthalen took place. The architect P. Fleischmann von Elgg was also present at this meeting, who then received the order to adapt the building type of the Catholic Church of Elgg to the needs of Feuerthalen. On January 24, 1966, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on the Lindenbuck . On July 1, 1966, the Bishop of Chur , Johannes Vonderach , appointed the area to the parish rectorate and incorporated it into the parish of Andelfingen. The completed church was consecrated on August 14, 1966 and St. Leonhard was appointed patron of the church - in memory of the medieval church in Feuerthalen, which was also consecrated to St. Leonhard.
The church, built in 1966, was 25 meters long and stood on a concrete base that contained a civil defense system. This first church had 250 seats and was equipped with simple liturgical equipment by Willi Buck, Wil SG . In 1968 a church tower with three bells was built and a year later a rectory was built on Höhenstrasse . At Easter 1971 Feuerthalen was raised to an independent parish and separated from Andelfingen.
After 40 years, the wooden church, which was once built as a temporary measure, showed structural defects. The rooms were no longer sufficient for the needs of the growing parish, especially there was a lack of meeting rooms. After a building competition, the municipality decided in 2005 to have a new church and parish center built according to plans by the architect Pierre Ilg. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in August 2006, the foundation stone was laid on March 11, 2007 and the church was consecrated on June 1, 2008 by Bishop Vitus Huonder .
In 2008 the pastor of the neighboring parish Stammheim-Andelfingen was elected parish administrator and in 2009 the pastor of the parish Feuerthalen. Since 2011, the two parishes of Feuerthalen and Stammheim-Andelfingen have been combined into one pastoral care room.
The pastoral care room with the two parishes of Feuerthalen and Stammheim-Andelfingen is one of the medium-sized Catholic parishes in the Canton of Zurich with its 4,098 members (as of 2017). The pastoral care room is responsible for the places Adlikon, Andelfingen, Benken, Dachsen, Feuerthalen, Flurlingen, Humlikon, Kleinandelfingen, Laufen-Uhwiesen, Marthalen, Oberstammheim, Ossingen, Trüllikon, Truttikon, Unterstammheim and Waltalingen.
Building description
Church tower and exterior
The St. Leonhard Church is located in the middle of a residential area on the Lindenbuck and consists of a round building made of bricks, the shape of which is a symbol of the infinite , the divine . Attached to this are the secular rooms of the parish center, which, with their square shape, refer to the finite, earthly . The foyer, classrooms, the parish travel office, a library and a kitchen are located on the ground floor. The sloping terrain to the south made it possible to build a light-flooded basement in which the youth rooms, a workshop and access to the infrastructure are located.
The free-standing church tower is made of concrete and refers to the Christian purpose of the building with its tower cross and the isosceles cross embedded in the concrete wall. The three bells still come from the church tower of the first St. Leonhardskirche and were cast by the bell foundry Emil Eschmann, Rickenbach TG . They sound on the tone sequence b, c, es. During the construction of today's church, the three-part bell in the H. Rüetschi bell foundry , Aarau, was overhauled and then brought back to Feuerthalen.
Interior and artistic equipment
The visitor enters the foyer and the St. Leonhard Church via a forecourt. The church has no glass windows set into the walls. Instead, daylight penetrates into the sacred space through a skylight, which runs in a ring along the outer wall of the church. The actual church roof rests on four concrete pillars, which circumscribe the seats in the church. If necessary, the walls of the church can be opened towards the parish center, which enables seating for up to 250 people.
The floor consists of dark stone slabs, from which the chancel is raised by two steps. Altar , ambo and tabernacle are made of light wood. The curved shape of the altar takes up the formal language of the church. The free-standing tabernacle has a circular shape, which, like the floor plan of the church interior, refers to infinity. On the front of the tabernacle two angels are indicated who protect and worship the most holy place. On the left side of the chancel there is a contemporary wooden figure of St. Leonhard, which is flanked by two relief-like pyramids . On the right side of the chancel, the pyramids flank a Madonna figure from the transition from Romanesque to Gothic . In the middle of the ceiling there is an isosceles paw cross that can be illuminated. The foundation stone of the church contains a relief with a cross and the year 2007. The Bible verse in the foundation stone from Isaiah 28:16 reads: “The Lord God says: See, I am laying a foundation stone in Zion, a tried and tested stone, a precious corner stone that is firmly established. "
organ
The Claudius Winterhalter company was awarded the contract to build the organ because its design was both optically and sonically matched to the spatial concept of the newly built St. Leonhard Church. The housing of the instrument fits harmoniously into the circular structure of the church as a circular arc segment. In the asymmetrical center of the organ front rises a concave stele curved towards the center of the room , which the organist also uses as a music stand. Although the instrument could not be particularly large due to the church interior, the organ builder strived for "a multi-layered, permeated sound with pronounced mixing ability and high intensity". In March 2009 the organ was consecrated by the abbot of the Disentis monastery, Daniel Schönbächler. The disposition of the organ:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, Sub II – II (through coupling to Man. I), Super II – P
- Tremulant
- Mood: Billeter ; a ° 440 Hz / 16 ° C
literature
- Theo Hasler: St. Leonhards Church Feuerthalen. Feuerthalen 1966.
- Roman Catholic Parish Andelfingen (Ed.): Roman Catholic Parish Andelfingen-Feuerthalen. Andelfingen 1973.
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Parish St. Leonhard Feuerthalen (Ed.): Catholic Parish Center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. Feuerthalen 2008.
- Markus Zimmermann: The organ parish center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. Feuerthalen 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Theo Hasler: St. Leonhards Church Feuerthalen. P. 3.
- ^ Website of the parish of Andelfingen-Feuerthalen, section The parish of Feuerthalen . ( Memento of the original from August 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 June 9, 2014.
- ↑ Theo Hasler: St. Leonhards Church Feuerthalen. Pp. 14–15, 25 and 28.
- ^ Website of the parish of Andelfingen-Feuerthalen, section "The parish of Feuerthalen". ( Memento of the original from August 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 June 9, 2014.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. P. 82.
- ^ Parish of St. Leonhard Feuerthalen (Ed.): Catholic Parish Center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. P. 5.
- ^ Parish of St. Leonhard Feuerthalen (Ed.): Catholic Parish Center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. P. 9.
- ^ Parish of St. Leonhard Feuerthalen (Ed.): Catholic Parish Center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. P. 5 and 15.
- ^ Parish of St. Leonhard Feuerthalen (Ed.): Catholic Parish Center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. P. 13.
- ^ Parish of St. Leonhard Feuerthalen (Ed.): Catholic Parish Center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. P. 21.
- ^ Parish of St. Leonhard Feuerthalen (Ed.): Catholic Parish Center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. P. 7.
- ^ Markus Zimmermann: The organ parish center St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. Pp. 1-2.
- ^ Claudius Winterhalter in: Parish of St. Leonhard Feuerthalen (ed.): Catholic parish center of St. Leonhard Feuerthalen. P. 23.
- ^ Website of the parish of Andelfingen-Feuerthalen, section "The parish of Feuerthalen". ( Memento of the original from August 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 June 9, 2014.
- ^ Website Orgelbau Winterthalter. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '12.18 " N , 8 ° 39' 8.48" E ; CH1903: six hundred ninety-one thousand one hundred twenty-seven / 282493