St. Marien (Langnau am Albis)
The Church of St. Marien is the Roman Catholic parish church of Langnau am Albis in the canton of Zurich .
history
prehistory
In the medieval village of Langinowe , a chapel is said to have stood on the site of today's Reformed Church , but this has not yet been proven archaeologically . Langnau was part of the church after St. Martin zu Thalwil , whose church set was transferred from the Muri monastery to the Wettingen monastery in 1253 . After the Reformation in Zurich from 1523, the Catholic cult was banned in Zurich's subject areas. It was not until the 19th century that the Edict of Tolerance of 1807 permitted Catholic services in Zurich again for the first time, albeit limited locally to the city of Zurich. The freedom of establishment and freedom of religion in the Swiss federal state of 1848 made it possible for Catholics to move into the Zurich region from central and eastern Switzerland , but also from nearby Catholic countries. In the course of industrialization , Catholic workers and their families settled in Langnau and the surrounding area in order to find work in the factories located on the Sihl. In 1863 the Bishop of Chur , Nikolaus Franz Florentini, had a mission station founded in Langnau-Gattikon, which was responsible for all Catholics in the Sihltal and on the Zimmerberg . It was the third diaspora community in the canton of Zurich. Pastoral care should be provided by clergy from Zug and the city of Zurich. The first place of worship was in the attic of the Heinrich Schmid spinning mill in Gattikon, where the first Catholic church service since the Reformation was celebrated in Langnau on June 13, 1864. Around 1870 the old Thalwil guild had around 750 Catholics, 134 of whom lived in Langnau and 200 in Thalwil and Gattikon. After the heirs of the industrialist Heinrich Schmid demanded too high a sum for the poor diaspora community to continue using the attic as a chapel, it was discussed in which community the new Catholic chapel should be built. Pastor Reinhard, the founder of the mission station, advised building a building in Thalwil, as industry as an employer in the Sihltal did not seem safe enough for the future of a parish. Johann Melchior Zürcher-Deschwanden , the founder of the domestic mission , which supported the development of the parish with donations, did not want to expect the Sihl Valley Catholics to go the long way to Lake Zurich . The Catholic master builder Giovanni Danieli, who had received Langnau citizenship against the obligation to have his children reformed baptized, offered the hall of his Wirtschaft Au as a place of worship and offered a building site on his land Zur Fuhr for the construction of his own church. The Catholic community gratefully accepted this offer, whereupon the establishment of a Catholic parish in Langnau was secured. On August 31, 1873, the first service took place in the hall of the Au inn.
Development and construction history
In 1876 construction began on the first Church of Our Lady according to the plans of the architect Wilhelm Keller , Lucerne. On June 24, 1877, the first service took place in the newly built church. On October 5th, 1880 Langnau was raised to an independent parish and legally separated from the parish of St. Josef Horgen . At that time, the parish included the Catholics of the parishes of Adliswil , Kilchberg ZH , Rüschlikon , Thalwil-Gattikon and Langnau. As a result of the influx of further Catholics in the area of the Sihltal and the Zimmerberg, the following daughter parishes were created at the end of the 19th century: 1894 Parish Adliswil (with Kilchberg and 1894–1899 with Rüschlikon) and 1899 Parish Thalwil (which was added to Rüschlikon in 1899 and separated from Adliswil again ). In the 1950s, more Catholics moved to Langnau. These indicated difficulties with the aging church. In addition, the necessary space for the further development of parish life was missing in the old building. When it finally became clear that the building was in poor condition and that repairs would have been associated with high costs and without added value, a new building was necessary. The public-law recognition of the Catholic Church in the canton of Zurich in 1963 made it possible to collect church taxes, so that with this money, but also with the saved funds from a fund that had been raised since the 1950s, the construction of a new church and parish center could be considered. In 1963 an architecture competition was held, won by the architect Eduard Ladner, Adliswil. On May 27, 1967, the last church service took place in the old Marienkirche and construction of the new church began. For two years they managed to use a building shack as an emergency church . In the years 1967–1969 today's St. Mary's Church was built. On September 1, 1967, work began on the foundation of the church and on October 25, 1968 the topping-out ceremony took place. The church was consecrated on November 16, 1969 by Bishop Johannes Vonderach .
The parish of St. Marien with its 2,280 members (as of 2017) is one of the smaller Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich. In addition to Langnau, the parish also includes the Gattikon district of the Thalwil community and the Sihlwald district of the Horgen community . Due to the topographical location and the historical origins of the parish, the three places are connected to one another and form a unit as a parish, although under canon law they belong to three different parishes.
Building description
The first church (1877–1967)
The church planned and realized by Baumeister Keller, Lucerne, was 17.25 meters long and 9.6 meters wide. As a continuation of the church, the 10 meter long rectory was added to the church interior , as is still the case today with the churches of St. Antonius Kollbrunn and St. Priminius Pfungen , two churches from the same construction period and with a similar history. The church offered space for 224 worshipers. The sacristy and the parish apartment were on the ground floor of the rectory , while the classroom and two guest rooms were set up on the upper floor. Due to lack of money, the interior of the church was completed gradually. The choir and nave were set up in 1878, and the altar and tabernacle by Marcel Müller, Gersau, followed in 1878 . The painter Paul Deschwanden, Stans created a painting of the Assumption of Mary based on the model of the hermit high altar, which today hangs above the altar in the crypt . The neo-Gothic pulpit was made by the sculptor Josef Schwerzmann, Zug, in 1879. The church was painted in 1879 by the painter Amlehn, Lucerne. A confessional and communion bench by J. Schwerzmann in 1880 rounded off the first interior design of the church. In 1879, three bells were cast for the church by the J. Keller bell foundry in Zurich. Since the bell expert Franz Wenger complained twice about the unclean mood of the bells, the bells had to be improved. On Trinity Sunday , May 23, 1880, the bells were set by the episcopal priest, Pastor Pfister von Winterthur .
| number | Weight | volume | dedication | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 690 pounds | H | Jesus Christ | The Lord is there and calls you |
| 2 | 345 pounds | dis | St. Mary | Greetings, gracious ones |
| 3 | 205 pounds | f sharp | St. John the Baptist | I am the voice of the caller in the desert |
The second church (from 1969)
Church tower and exterior
St. Mary's Church is located at Berghaldenweg 1 on a hill above the Sihltalstrass e and the train of Sihltalbahn . It is an ensemble of church, parish center and rectory, which was built in cubic forms made of concrete in the tradition of Le Corbusier . The church tower has the shape of a semicircular segment, which initially suggests a round tower towards the access road. There are slots in the tower that form a simple cross . The tower hides a five-part bell that sounds the tone sequence of the Salve Regina . Four of the five bells were cast in 1968 by the company H. Rüetschi , Aarau. The smallest bell was taken from the bells of the first church and dates from 1880 from the J. Keller foundry. The bells were consecrated on November 24, 1968 and then raised in the tower by the village youth.
| number | volume | dedication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | H | Easter |
| 2 | dis | Christmas |
| 3 | f sharp | Pentecost |
| 4th | G | Assumption and Mary |
| 5 | H | Jesus Christ |
Interior and artistic equipment
The visitor enters the church under a canopy. The simple interior is characterized by the lighting. The hand-blown antique glass windows from Glas Mäder in Zurich , which are lightly tinted, let daylight into the interior. The mood in the church changes due to the incidence of light, depending on the time of day and the weather. The wooden chairs for the worshipers are set up in a semicircle around the altar island, which is raised one step from the rest of the church floor. The altar and ambo are made of the same wood as the chairs for the visitors, which underlines the communion character of the post-Vatican church of St. Mary. To the left of the altar is a simple wooden cross, which refers to the religious character of the room. Behind the altar is a tapestry from the year 1982-1983, which was designed by Silvia Magnin-D'Altri and bears the title of Christ's Ark . The red color stands out in the lower part of the carpet design. In the cut globe, clumsy human figures can be seen, which embody the unredeemed humanity. In the middle of the picture the blue of the water dominates, which indicates the baptism . On the ark of Christ, the boat of life, there are - on behalf of all people - Moses in the middle , Mary on the right , Joseph on the left . The flowers represent symbols of beauty and innocence. The upper part of the tapestry is dominated by Jesus Christ . His drops of blood - signs of atonement - are woven into the globe, his dress penetrates the globe into the realm of death. The whole motif can be described with the word from the Revelation: “The Lord makes everything new through his mercy.” To the right of the tapestry, the organ of the church was placed. On the left side of the altar area is the weekday chapel, which is not spatially separated from the church. It offers space for around 40 people attending church services and allows them to sit on chairs set up in a semicircle around the popular altar. The baptistery was set up at the foot of the church tower between the church entrance and the weekday chapel. The baptismal font is designed as a baptismal fountain, on the wall to the right of the baptismal fountain a sculpture of the church patroness, Our Lady, was attached.
organ
The organ comes from Mathis Orgelbau , Näfels, and has 24 registers with 1,500 pipes . The instrument was consecrated on April 22, 1972 and presented in a concert by the organist Hans Vollenweider.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : organ pleno, individual reeds, tongues and mixtures
crypt
The parish center and the crypt are located on the lower floor of the church building . The walls of the crypt are made of solid concrete, which underlines the lower church character of this worship space. To make the crypt warmer, the concrete walls were painted a yellow tone and the floor is made of wood. The rectangular room is closed off by an apse in which the concrete altar was placed in the form of a rope . The high altar picture of the first church, an Assumption of Mary into heaven , was hung on the choir wall . The tabernacle on the right and the portrait of Mary on the left of the altar also come from the furnishings of the first Marienkirche in Langnau.
literature
- Catholic parish Langnau (Ed.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Marien Langnau-Gattikon. Langnau 1977.
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Catholic Parish Langnau (Ed.): Then and Now. The catholic parish Langnau Gattikon. Langnau 1994.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 222.
- ^ Website of the parish. Section History of the Catholic Church Langnau. ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 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 12, 2014.
- ^ Catholic parish Langnau (ed.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Marien Langnau-Gattikon. Pp. 6-7.
- ^ Website of the parish. Section History of the Catholic Church Langnau. ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 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 12, 2014.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Pp. 240 and 256.
- ^ Website of the parish. Section History of the Catholic Church Langnau. ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 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 12, 2014.
- ^ Catholic parish Langnau (ed.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Marien Langnau-Gattikon. Pp. 16-17.
- ^ Website of the parish. Section History of the Catholic Church Langnau. ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 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 12, 2014.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017, p. 83.
- ^ Website of the parish. Section History of the Catholic Church Langnau. ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 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 12, 2014.
- ^ Catholic parish Langnau (ed.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Marien Langnau-Gattikon. Pp. 8-13.
- ^ Catholic parish Langnau (ed.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Marien Langnau-Gattikon. P. 19.
- ^ Website of the parish. Section stained glass window. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 12, 2014.
- ^ Catholic parish Langnau (ed.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Marien Langnau-Gattikon. Pp. 21-22.
- ^ Catholic parish Langnau (ed.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Marien Langnau-Gattikon. P. 20.
- ^ Organ directory Switzerland-Liechtenstein. Section Catholic Church St. Marien Langnau am Albis ZH. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '8.26 " N , 8 ° 32' 33.37" E ; CH1903: 683515 / 237780