St. Petrus Embrachertal
The St. Petrus Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Zurich Unterland . It is on Steinackerweg in Embrach . The St. Petrus Chapel was the first parish church in Embrach. It is on Rheinstrasse near Embrach train station. The parish to which these two church buildings belong is responsible for the entire Embrachertal with the parishes of Lufingen , Oberembrach , Embrach, Rorbas and Freienstein-Teufen .
history
History and naming
From the 11th century until the Reformation , the Embrach village center was home to the Canons' Monastery of St. Peter the Augustinian Canons . The church belonging to it had probably already existed before the foundation of the Canons' Monastery and was dedicated to St. Peter . Due to this patronage , the two keys of St. Peter are depicted in the coat of arms of the political municipality Embrach and that is why today's Catholic parish has St. Peter as the church patron. The Canons' Monastery was dissolved in the course of the Reformation in 1524. The Gothic collegiate church became the first reformed church in Embrach, but it collapsed in 1778 and was replaced by the new building of today's reformed church .
In the period after the Reformation up to the beginning of the 19th century, Catholic services were banned in the canton of Zurich . The Edict of Tolerance of the Zurich Government Council of September 10, 1807 allowed a Catholic community in Zurich for the first time. The so-called First Zurich Church Law in 1863 recognized the Catholic parishes in Zurich as well as in Winterthur , Dietikon and Rheinau (the last two were traditionally Catholic places). On the basis of association law, Catholic branches could then be established throughout the canton. With the help of sponsoring associations such as the Piusverein (founded in 1857) and the Catholic Society for Domestic Mission (founded in 1863), further parishes were established in the canton of Zurich in quick succession in the 1860s: Männedorf (1864), Gattikon-Thalwil / Langnau (1864) ), Horgen (1865), Pilgersteg-Rüti / Wald (1866), Wald and Bubikon (1873), Uster (1876), Langnau (1877), Rüti (1878), Wädenswil (1881), Bülach (1882), Wetzikon ( 1890), Bauma (1894), Adliswil (1894), Pfungen (1895), Dübendorf (1897) and Küsnacht (1901). So it happened that by 1900 there were already 20 Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich. With the two neighboring Catholic parishes of Bülach and Pfungen, a good starting point for pastoral care in the Embrachertal was created at the beginning of the 20th century.
In the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the Catholics in the canton of Zurich were a minority. The counter-movement of the Kulturkampf resulted in ultramontanism . To express their solidarity with the Pope in Rome, the Catholic population named several churches after St. Peter and St. Paul , for example the two oldest Catholic churches in Zurich ( St. Peter and Paul Zurich ) and Winterthur ( St. Peter and Paul Winterthur ). Since the Catholic Church in Embrach was dedicated to St. Peter, it made sense to dedicate the Catholic Church in Dielsdorf , which was also a subsidiary parish of the Trinity Church in Bülach, to St. Paul. Another connection between the parish of Embrach and the parish area in the southeastern part of the Zurich Unterland is the fact that Joseph Steiner , the architect of the Catholic Chapel of Embrach from 1924, built the similar architectural style St. Christophorus erected.
Development and construction history
In the course of industrialization , factories were built in the Embrachertal that benefited from hydropower and the mineral resources in the valley, but also from road and railroad construction. Catholic workers and their families moved from eastern and central Switzerland to the Embrachertal. When the parish of Bülach was founded in 1882, the Catholics of the Embrach Valley were assigned to Bülach. After the Dreifaltigkeitskirche Bülach was built in 1902, the parish turned its attention to the situation of the Catholic population in the industrial Embrachertal. In 1905, for example, the Embrach Catholic Men's Association was founded, which played a key role in promoting the development of the Catholic community in the Embrachertal in the following decades.
Individual Catholics attended the Sunday service in the Church of St. Pirminius in Pfungen , where a Catholic church has stood since 1905, but most Catholics of the Embrachertal went on Sunday on foot over the Dattenberg or by train (which only took the morning for the way there Church) through the railway tunnel through the Dattenberg to Bülach in the mass. From time to time a service was held for the Catholics of Embrach from 1898 in the hall of the Embrach schoolhouse. For a long time, religious instruction for the children took place in the Freienstein secondary school, and later in the waiting room of the Embrach-Rorbas train station.
In August 1921, the Catholic men's association bought the land for the construction of today's St. Petrus chapel on Rheinstrasse. With the help of the domestic mission and collection sermons of the clergy from the Bülach parish, the money for the construction of the chapel could be collected in the following years. On the Ascension Day , May 29, 1924, the foundation stone was laid and in the following months the St. Petrus Chapel was built according to plans by the architect Joseph Steiner , Schwyz. On the first Sunday in Advent, November 30, 1924, the chapel was inaugurated by the Winterthur Dean Meyer. The Catholics in the Embrachertal continued to be looked after by the Bülach parish.
In 1958 the house next to the St. Petrus chapel was acquired as the future rectory. Due to the growing Catholic population in the Embrachertal, the number of services in the chapel was increased from initially one to two (1953–1963), later to three, four and since 1970 to five services (including the evening service on Saturday evening). In 1966 the Embrachertal was elevated to a parish vicariate and on January 1, 1967 to a parish rectorate. In 1966 the Embrachertal received its own priest and a building fund was established for the construction of a larger church. Because the area of the St. Petrus Chapel would have been too narrow, building a new church on the same area was out of the question. In 1972 the area for the construction of today's parish center was acquired near Steinackerweg. On Easter Sunday , April 14th 1974, St. Petrus Embrachertal was raised to a parish by the Chur bishop Johannes Vonderach and separated from Bülach.
For the growing parish, the new building of a church including a parish center became more and more urgent. Larger church services such as First Communion celebrations took place in the Reformed Church from 1970 until the church was built. In the spring of 1976 an architecture competition took place in which the projects Chuppe by Karl Higi and Horst by Robert Tanner and Felix Loetscher were recommended for further processing. The project by Tanner and Lötscher finally convinced the jury, so that it was decided to carry out. However, for cost reasons, the project had to be reduced before it was built in 1979–1980. On September 30, 1979, the foundation stone was laid in the shell of the building that had already been completed and on June 15, 1980 the church was consecrated by Bishop Johannes Vonderach. As the parish continued to grow and its activities were expanded, the parish center was expanded in the years 2004–2005 according to plans by architect Walter Hollenstein by adding more halls and adding a meditation room. On 2/3 In July 2005 the expanded and renovated parish center was inaugurated.
The parish of St. Petrus Embrachertal with its 4,364 members (as of 2017) is one of the medium-sized Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Description of the construction of the St. Petrus Chapel
The St. Petrus Chapel is a neo-Romanesque church, the shape of which is based on churches in central Switzerland. Because of the course of the road, the chapel of the chapel is not east, but points in a south-westerly direction. The chapel is a single-aisled building that ends with a choir that has just been completed and is three steps higher . A sacristy is attached to the choir on the left. After the chapel was built, it served as a classroom for the children and as a confessional for over 30 years . In front of the chapel there is a small vestibule facing the street . The church tower rises above the choir of the church. In the belfry there is a bell that the Bülach pastor Imholz bought at the Leipzig trade fair .
Inside the chapel there are frescoes that the hermit father and artist Bernhard Flüeler (1882–1958) created in 1928. Above the arch to the choir, the frescoes depict scenes from the life of St. Peter. The three frescoes in the choir show the veneration of the Three Kings , Jesus on the cross and, on the final wall of the choir, Jesus as Pantocrator . A modern folk altar with ambo and baptismal font , a statue of Our Lady and a statue of Jesus as well as pictures of the Stations of the Cross on the side walls of the nave complete the interior of the chapel.
organ
In 1996 the chapel received an organ that is located in the organ gallery. It is a single manual instrument made by the organ builder Stemmer, Zumikon , with seven registers. The organ case was fitted into the existing parapet of the gallery and takes up the ceiling design of the church in the upper part. The disposition is as follows:
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Building description of the parish center St. Petrus
Church tower and exterior
From the Steinackerweg and Steinhaldenstrasse, the parish center looks a bit squat despite its size and the color scheme is subtle. This reluctance to design can be explained by two facts: On the one hand, the intention was to deliberately design the church built in the diaspora area to be discreet. On the other hand, the churches came under general pressure from the 1960s onwards, which is why they wanted to build churches without a dominant effect in the settlement image. Nevertheless, the church has a large, if not high, steeple , which shows with its cross that the building is a Christian building. By renouncing architectural dominance, the church building was given an inviting, community-building character, which corresponded to the requirements of the Second Vatican Council . Under the tower one arrives at an inner courtyard, from which the three parts of the building are accessible: the rectory, the parish center and the church.
The church tower houses four bells that were cast by the H. Rüetschi bell foundry in Aarau on March 18, 1980. Canon Franz Stampfli consecrated the bells on May 10, 1980, after which they were raised into the tower by the school children.
| number | Weight | diameter | volume | dedication | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1200 kg | 127 cm | e | Ave Maria | See I am the handmaid of the Lord, it may happen to me as you said. |
| 2 | 620 kg | 102 cm | g sharp | St. John the Baptist | A voice calls out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord. |
| 3 | 350 kg | 85 cm | H | St. Peter | You are the rock; on this rock I will build my church. |
| 4th | 250 kg | 76 cm | cis | St. Niklaus von Flüe | My Lord and my God, take me from me and give me to you. |
Interior and artistic equipment
In keeping with the spirit of the times, the church was not designed for exclusive use as a place of worship. With a sliding wall , the room can be divided into a chapel and a hall that can also be used profanely. The church has no benches, but chairs, which are grouped in a semicircle around the slightly raised chancel. The altar area was designed by the artist Ro Studer-Koch in collaboration with the architect Felix Lötscher. The artist used current materials in the St. Petrus Church at the time, such as B. veneered wood for the altar and the ambo and fitted carpet for the floor of the church. With "Materials of Time" Ro Studer-Koch wanted to create a "space of silence and security". Altar, ambo and baptismal font form an ensemble that corresponds to the materials veneered wood and white-painted concrete with the wooden chairs and the white church walls. On the brick wall behind the altar area there is a tabernacle that protrudes from the white painted wall and thus indicates a Jacob's ladder . A relief on the bronze door of the tabernacle refers to the transcendence . On the side wall behind the chancel is the tapestry, which was created based on a design by Ro Studer-Koch (1907–1991). In a later step, a romanizing crucifix was attached to the front wall behind the altar area and a Pietà was attached to the sloping wall next to the chancel . On the wall next to the confessional there is a statue of Our Lady, which was donated together with the liturgical implements and the Easter candle holder on the occasion of the inauguration of the church. The church has an electronic organ from 1980.
Meditation room
When the parish center was expanded in 2004–2005, a meditation room was added to the church. The atmosphere of the room is shaped by the light that falls into the room from above through shafts. The Zurich artist Urs Kamm was inspired by the stream flowing below the parish center and painted three pictures that show biblical texts with the element of water (Jesus 'encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, Jesus' walk on the water and the fear of Peter to go under, the washing of the feet after the Last Supper.) The wall cross by Obwalden artist Alois Spichtig from 2006 completes the design of the meditation room. The cross is made of beech wood and granite and, together with the biblical texts on the blue pictures, gives the room its Christian character.
literature
- Ernst Gassmann: Catholic parish St. Petrus Embrach. Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the St. Petrus Church. Embrach 1974.
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Catholic church maintenance Bülach / Embrach (Ed.): Church center St. Petrus Embrach. Embrach 1980.
- Christian Renfer: Catholic Church Bülach. Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 1992.
- Art Association Ro Studer-Koch (Ed.): Ro Studer Koch. A guide to public works in and around Winterthur. Berlin 1997.
- Parish of St. Petrus (ed.): Space for people. 25 years of the Catholic Church Center St. Petrus and inauguration of the extension. Embrach 2005.
- Parish St. Petrus (Ed.): Prayer room St. Petrus Embrachertal. Flyer. Embrach 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. Zurich 1989, p. 192.
- ^ Christian Renfer: Catholic Church Bülach. Pp. 4-5.
- ^ Ernst Gassmann: Catholic parish St. Petrus Embrach. Pp. 11-12.
- ↑ Parish of St. Petrus (ed.): Room for people. P. 18.
- ^ Ernst Gassmann: Catholic parish St. Petrus Embrach. Pp. 15-24.
- ↑ Parish of St. Petrus (ed.): Room for people. Pp. 19-21.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. Zurich 2017, p. 84.
- ^ Ernst Gassmann: Catholic parish of St. Petrus. Pp. 13-14.
- ↑ Parish of St. Petrus (ed.): Room for people. P. 18 and 20.
- ↑ Brentini: The Catholic Church of St. Martin in Zurich-Fluntern. Bern 2013, p. 36.
- ↑ Catholic Church Care Bülach / Embrach (Ed.): Church Center St. Petrus Embrach. Pp. 18-19.
- ^ Quotations from Ro Studer-Koch based on: Art Association Ro Studer-Koch (Ed.): Ro Studer-Koch. A guide to public works in and around Winterthur. P. 16.
- ^ Art Association Ro Studer-Koch (Ed.): Ro Studer-Koch. A guide to public works in and around Winterthur. Pp. 16-17.
- ↑ Catholic Church Care Bülach / Embrach (Ed.): Church Center St. Petrus Embrach. P. 17.
- ↑ Parish of St. Petrus (Ed.): Prayer room St. Petrus Embrachertal.
- ^ Website of the parish, section devotional room St. Peter. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '4.1 " N , 8 ° 35' 4.6" E ; CH1903: six hundred eighty-six thousand three hundred and fifteen / 263636