St. Marien (Winterthur-Oberwinterthur)

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St. Mary's Church
View from the Römerstrasse
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The St. Marien Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the city of Winterthur . It is located in the Oberwinterthur district and is the fourth oldest Catholic church in the city after the Church of St. Peter and Paul , St. Joseph and the Heart of Jesus .

history

History and naming

The medieval church in Oberwinterthur was probably originally dedicated to St. Arbogast , but in the 14th century St. Peter was also named as the church patron . In 1427, however, the mention of St. Arbogast can be found again. The church was founded around 625 on the Merovingian - Franconian royal estate by King Dagobert , who was an admirer of St. Arbogast. At the same time the church was transferred to the Bishopric of Constance . The patronage of the church was transferred from the bishop to the Petershausen monastery in 1350 , hence the title saint, St. Peter, probably comes from. In 1581 the patronage was sold to Zurich . The following church buildings could be proven: The original building was Merovingian-Carolingian around the year 625, then followed in the 12th / 13th. Century a Romanesque church with a choir and tower. In the years 1346 and 1361 extensions are proven. The current church building, which is used as a reformed church, dates from the years 1486–1490. When the Reformation was carried out in Zurich from 1523, the reigning priest Hans Bosshart , who was in office in Oberwinterthur, followed Huldrych Zwingli's doctrine of the Reformation and thus made it possible to remove the altars and their paintings. The frescoes were whitewashed, but are now visible again and are considered an art monument of the late Middle Ages. In 1527 the Reformation was finally implemented in the church of Oberwinterthur by a council resolution and from then on used for Reformed worship services. After the Reformation, the Catholic cult was banned in the entire area of ​​influence of Zurich for the next few centuries.

The Edict of Tolerance of the Zurich Government Council of September 10, 1807 allowed a Catholic community in Zurich for the first time. When the Cantonal Council of Zurich decided to abolish the Rheinau monastery on April 22nd, 1862, the canton combined the abolition of the monastery with the need to give the monastery property a new, legally regulated use. This led to the drafting of a Catholic church law. The so-called First Church Law of Zurich in 1863 finally recognized the Catholic parishes in addition to Zurich, also in Winterthur, Dietikon and Rheinau (the last two were traditionally Catholic places). On August 10, 1862, the day of remembrance of the medieval city patron St. Laurentius , an official Catholic service was held in Winterthur for the first time since the Reformation. This was held in the prayer room of the old city ​​chancellery . The founding assembly of the Catholic parish of Winterthur took place on December 13, 1863 - one year before the state church law was formulated in the canton of Zurich. In 1868, the St. Peter and Paul Church in the newly created Neuwiesen district was the first Catholic church in the city of Winterthur. Until the construction of the other six Catholic parish churches from the beginning of the 20th century, it was the center for the church life of Catholics who immigrated to Winterthur.

Development and construction history

The parish of St. Marien in the Oberwinterthur quarter is a daughter parish of St. Peter and Paul Winterthur-Neuwiesen. From 1901, Catholic religious instruction was given for the children in the neighborhood by the pastors of St. Peter and Paul. On February 1, 1907, the Römerhof was bought, a restaurant with enough surrounding land so that a church could later be built on it. The first Catholic service since the Reformation took place in Oberwinterthur in the Roman hall of this restaurant on December 1st, 1907, the 1st Sunday of Advent . The parish of St. Peter and Paul Winterthur was a state-recognized parish and benefited from tax revenues and state contributions. But the creation of further parishes in the Winterthur area was rejected by the government council of the canton of Zurich in 1914, so that the development of the Catholic parish in Oberwinterthur had to take place on the basis of private and association law. With the help of the Diocesan Cultural Association of Chur and its own work, structural changes were made in the following years. In 1919 , the hall of the Römerhof restaurant was converted into a church service, which from then on only served church purposes. The chapel was assigned on February 16, 1919. In the same year the Bishop of Chur , Georg Schmid von Grüneck , appointed the parish of Oberwinterthur to the parish rectorate. In 1925 the Römerhof burned down and all buildings were destroyed, the only exception was the church service hall. From March 14th to October 14th, 1925, a rectory was built for the pastor and his housekeeper. In the following years, the community collected money to finance a new church, which was then realized in the years 1935–1936 by the Stuttgart architect Albert Otto Linder . In addition, a hall with over 200 seats and a sister's apartment were added to the church. The sisters came from the Congregation of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in Schaan FL and took on tasks in nursing the sick and the elderly and were also involved in other parish areas. The church was named a Maria-Hilf church. The church was consecrated on May 3, 1936 by Bishop Laurenz Matthias Vincenz , the consecration took place after a renovation a good 20 years later by Bishop Christian Caminada on April 27, 1957. In 1970, St. Mary was raised to an independent parish and by St. Peter and Paul separated. In 1976 the interior of the church was renovated and adapted to the requirements of the Second Vatican Council . The completed church was consecrated on December 19, 1976. Between 2003 and 2004 the architects Walter Hollenstein and Andreas Bertet redesigned the parish center.

24 parishes once belonged to St. Marien Oberwinterthur, u. a. Sulz, Rickenbach , Seuzach , Attikon and Wiesendangen . Today's parishes of St. Martin Seuzach and St. Martin Wiesendangen are daughter parishes of St. Marien Oberwinterthur.

In 2013 the Catholic parish of Winterthur opened the clue , a meeting center in the Neuhegi development area , which is organizationally affiliated with the parish of St. Marien.

The parish of St. Marien belongs together with the other Catholic parishes in the city to the parish of Winterthur. With 25,882 members (as of 2014), this is the largest Catholic parish in the Canton of Zurich. The parish of St. Marien is responsible for 5,212 Catholics, making it the second largest parish in the city of Winterthur.

Building description

Church tower and exterior

On April 24, 1957, four bells were cast for the St. Mary's Church in the Karl Czudnochowsky foundry near Munich, which were consecrated on May 19 by Abbot Basilius Niederberger of the Mariastein Monastery . On May 22nd, the school youth raised the bells in the tower. The ringing is matched to the bells of the Reformed Church and has a total weight of 7100 kg. It sounds in the tone sequence A, c, d, f. The bells are consecrated to the Guardian Angels together with St. Arbogast, St. Joseph , the Mother of God and the Trinity .

Interior and artistic equipment

The church of St. Marien is a so-called path church as a longitudinal building , which leads the visitor through the sacred space to the central event of the church, to the Eucharist celebration . The interior of the church bears witness to the history of the parish. There are stained glass windows from the time the church was built, a baptistery in a niche at the rear of the church and a devotional corner with a mosaic of Mary on the other side . After the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council in the 1970s, the church was adapted to the new requirements of worship celebrations, the church was given a simple people's altar , on the right side a massive, cubic tabernacle and an ambo . In order to make the church more friendly and harmonious, a new wooden ceiling was installed during this time, which contributes to the warm appearance of the originally soberly conceived church. The gallery above the entrance to the church offers space for the choir and orchestra as well as for the organ.

organ

Organ from 1976

In 1936 the Church of St. Mary received its first organ . It was an instrument from the organ building company Metzler with a free pipe prospect and 18 stops on two manuals and pedal . On the occasion of the renovation of the church in 1976, the congregation received its current organ, which was made by Orgelbau Kuhn . The instrument has 19 registers, which are divided between two manuals and a pedal.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Pommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
Vox humana 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave 8th'
Octave 4 ′
trombone 8th'

literature

  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
  • Martin Müller: The Catholic parishes in the Zurich Oberland. History of their reconstruction in the 19th and 20th centuries. Zurich 2007.
  • Parish of St. Marien Oberwinterthur (Ed.): Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the parish of St. Marien. Winterthur 2007.

Web links

Commons : Marien Winterthur-Oberwinterthur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Hrsg.): Schematismus. Pp. 266-267.
  2. ^ Parish of St. Marien Oberwinterthur (Ed.): Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the parish of St. Marien. Pp. 9-11.
  3. ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. Zurich 1989, p. 192
  4. ^ Peter Niederhäuser and Flurina Pescatore: St. Peter and Paul. The mother church of Katholisch-Winterthur , pp. 8–9.
  5. ^ Peter Niederhäuser and Flurina Pescatore: St. Peter and Paul. The mother church of Katholisch-Winterthur , pp. 10-14.
  6. ↑ Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Hrsg.): Schematismus. Pp. 266-267.
  7. ^ Parish of St. Marien Oberwinterthur (Ed.): Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the parish of St. Marien. Pp. 19-34.
  8. ↑ Markus Weber, Stephan Kölliker: Sacred Zurich. 150 years of Catholic church building in the canton of Zurich , p. 245.
  9. ↑ Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Hrsg.): Schematismus. Pp. 266-267.
  10. ^ Website of the clue. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  11. ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (ed.): Annual Report 2014. Zurich 2014, p. 79.
  12. ↑ Katholische Kirchgemeinde Winterthur, counting of Catholics as of December 31, 2017.
  13. ^ Parish of St. Marien Oberwinterthur (Ed.): Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the parish of St. Marien. P. 28
  14. ↑ Bell information on YouTube. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  15. ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Section Catholic Church St. Marien Winterthur-Oberwinterthur. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  16. ^ Parish of St. Marien Oberwinterthur (Ed.): Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the parish of St. Marien. P. 31
  17. ^ Organ in St. Marien, Oberwinterthur , accessed on January 19, 2014.

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '12.7 "  N , 8 ° 45' 0.2"  E ; CH1903:  698802  /  262245