St. Plazidus and Sigisbert (Kleinandelfingen)
The Church of St. Plazidus and Sigisbert is the Roman Catholic parish church of Kleinandelfingen in the canton of Zurich . Together with the Church of St. Leonhard in Feuerthalen and the Church of Liebfrauen in Oberstammheim, it belongs to the pastoral care room Andelfingen-Feuerthalen.
history
History and naming
In the Middle Ages there was already a church on the site of today's Reformed Church of Andelfingen , which was consecrated to the patrons Plazidus and Sigisbert . After the Reformation in Zurich from 1523, the Catholic rite was forbidden in the Zurich subject areas. That is why the church in Andelfingen was henceforth used for Reformed worship services. In the 17th century, the medieval church was replaced by today's church. The neo-Gothic church tower dates from 1862. In memory of the patronage of the medieval church, the Catholic church built in the 20th century for the Andelfingen region was also given the patronage of St. Plazidus and Sigisbert.
History of origin
As part of the freedom of establishment and freedom of religion of the Swiss federal state , the first Catholics moved to the Zürcher Weinland at the end of the 19th century . In order to attend a Catholic service, long journeys had to be made to the Catholic churches of Rheinau , Winterthur or Schaffhausen . That is why a group of Catholics met in Ossingen in 1923 and asked the Bishop of Chur for better pastoral care . Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck then commissioned the pastor of St. Marien Winterthur-Oberwinterthur to also take care of the Catholics in the Zurich wine region. In 1926, for the first time since the Reformation, a Catholic service was held in the Hirschen inn in Ossingen in the Zürcher Weinland. As early as 1928 the Catholics built a St. Anne's chapel in the western part of the village of Ossingen . In 1932 the Zürcher Weinland received its first Catholic pastor, who first settled in Ossingen and from 1934 in Oberstammheim . He set up a chapel in his house in Oberstammheim and also looked after the chapel in Ossingen from there. Since only a few Catholics lived in the Andelfingen area in the 1930s, while there were a number of newly arrived Catholics in Stammheim, the focus of pastoral care shifted to Oberstammheim. In the 1930s, the neighboring properties of the rectory in Oberstammheim could also be acquired for the construction of a church. Since Ossingen was difficult to reach from Andelfingen and Marthalen , the St. Anna chapel turned out to be unfavorably located. The St. Anna chapel in Ossingen was therefore sold and converted into a residential building. As a replacement, the first Catholic church services took place in Kleinandelfingen in the restaurant Zum Bad from 1938.
In 1939, a piece of land opposite the Zum Bad restaurant was acquired and a wooden emergency church was built. In the war year 1942, the Church of Our Lady was built in Oberstammheim with the help of donations. As more and more Catholics settled in the region of the district capital Andelfingen, the focus of the parish shifted more and more to Kleinandelfingen in the second half of the 20th century. When the wooden emergency church there became too small for the growing community, it was expanded and received a church tower made of concrete, which also represented the new entrance to the church. Because the Disentis Monastery was historically connected to the pastoral care of the pre-Reformation church of St. Placidus and Sigisbert in Andelfingen, the then abbot of Disentis Monastery was asked to consecrate the converted church in Kleinandelfingen. The church was consecrated on August 25, 1963. In March 1966, Vicar General Alfred Teobaldi blessed the bells, which were then raised in the church tower. In 1972 the choir of the church in Kleinandelfingen was redesigned and thus adapted to the requirements of the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council . Structural defects in the building originally intended as an emergency church led to the rebuilding of the church. This was inaugurated on June 24, 1990 by former Bishop Johannes Vonderach . The parish of Feuerthalen , founded in 1966, is a subsidiary of the Stammheim-Andelfingen parish. In 2011 the two parishes were combined to form a pastoral care room.
The parish of Stammheim-Andelfingen is responsible for the Catholics in the communities of Adlikon , Andelfingen, Benken , Humlikon , Kleinandelfingen, Marthalen, Stammheim , Ossingen , Trüllikon and Truttikon . 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).
Building description
Church tower and exterior
Located northeast of the center of Kleinandelfingen is the church of St. Plazidus and Sigisbert on Schaffhauserstrasse . Since this street determines the orientation of the area, the church is not east, but faces west. The ensemble consists of a parish center, church and bell tower, which dates from 1963 and was incorporated into the ensemble when the church was rebuilt. The tower has a five-part bell and a tower clock with a black, red and gold dial. Four of the bells were cast by the Emil Eschmann foundry , Rickenbach TG in 1965. The fifth bell is historic and was in front of the church for a long time; it was only hung up in the tower a few years ago. The five-part ringing sounds in the tone sequence F sharp, A sharp, C sharp, D sharp, F sharp. The visitor enters the church through the door under the church tower.
Interior and artistic equipment
The church building has a polygonal on floor plan and a gabled roof completed. The room is kept in white tones and groups the pews around the chancel, which is one step apart from the rest of the church. The altar and ambo are made of the same stone, emphasizing the liturgical connection between the altar (table of the meal) and the ambo (table of the word). To the left of the chancel is the baptismal font with an Easter candle , to the right of the chancel there is a Way of the Cross along the wall. The stained glass windows are in different colors and contain a spirit dove as the only concrete symbol, which is located on the eastern wall of the church at the level of the organ loft. The church's patrons, St. Plazidus and Sigisbert, are placed as a relief under the organ gallery.
organ
The church received its first organ on the occasion of the expansion and consecration in 1963. After the construction of the current church in 1989/1990, a new instrument was installed in the organ gallery by the company de Gier from Uhwiesen. It is a mechanical organ with 14 registers, divided into two manuals and a pedal.
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literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Reformed Parish Andelfingen. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ^ Website of the Catholic parish of Andelfingen-Feuerthalen. Section The parish of Stammheim-Andelfingen. ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ^ Website of the Catholic parish of Andelfingen-Feuerthalen. Section The parish of Stammheim-Andelfingen. ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. P. 82.
- ^ Website of the Catholic parish of Andelfingen-Feuerthalen. Section The parish of Stammheim-Andelfingen. ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ^ [1] Entry in the private organ directory Switzerland-Liechtenstein , accessed on February 16, 2015.
