St. Ulrich (Winterthur-Rosenberg)
The St. Ulrich Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the city of Winterthur . It is located in the Veltheim district to the north of the city center in the Rosenberg district at Seuzacherstrasse 1 . The parish is responsible for the district of Veltheim with the quarters of Blumenau and Rosenberg.
history
History and naming
In Veltheim a first chapel is occupied with the patronage of the Holy Mother Anna . When a second, larger chapel was built, the previous building was used as a sacristy . The third chapel was built in 1358 by adding a choir and nave to the second chapel. A fourth church was built in 1482 and the steeple was built in 1498. This church was a pilgrimage church of St. Anna until the Reformation . Since the Battle of St. Georgen in 1292, the city of Winterthur has made pilgrimages to St. Anna's Church in Veltheim twice a year . After the Reformation in Zurich from 1523, the Catholic cult was banned for the next 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
In 1954, the Winterthur parish in the north of Winterthur acquired the first building site for a future church. It was a demolition property on Wolfensbergstrasse in Veltheim. Between 1961 and 1963 the property on the corner of Schaffhauser- and Seuzacherstrasse was acquired. In July 1966, 21 projects for a future church in the Rosenberg district were examined and assessed under the chairmanship of the city architect Karl Keller. The Oase project by architects Robert Tanner and Felix Loetscher emerged as the winner . On October 3, 1968, the parish assembly of Winterthur decided to build the church center in Rosenberg. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on February 19, 1969, on June 29, 1969 Vicar General Alfred Teobaldi consecrated the foundation stone and on December 5, 1969 the topping-out ceremony was celebrated. The Church was consecrated on March 21, 1971. On the same day, Ortisei was made parish rectorate. On November 1, 1971, St. Ulrich was made an independent parish and separated from St. Peter and Paul Winterthur-Neuwiesen . Between 2012 and 2013 the church, including the parish center and rectory, was completely renovated by the architect Markus Jedele. The artistic design of the church was supplemented by Thomas Rutherford.
The parish of St. Ulrich 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. Ulrich is responsible for 1,022 Catholics, making it the smallest parish in the city of Winterthur in terms of numbers.
Building description
Zita Haselbach writes: The St. Ulrich Church is “a witness of its time. Every church is shaped by the building materials available and the building skills of its time. The architecture also says something about the search for God and the social image of its contemporaries. ”The Church of St. Ulrich is a typical witness of the 1960s, in which the hectic pace and the reference to this life made God seem far away.
Church tower and exterior
The church with the parish center and rectory is located at the fork of the busy Schaffhauserstrasse and Seuzacherstrasse in the immediate vicinity of the Rosenberg shopping center . The building ensemble of church, parish center and parsonage is made of concrete and is designed in such a way that it shields the worshipers from the noisy street and the shopping center and leads them through an inner courtyard into the quiet church. In the inner courtyard there is also the massive, but not high church tower, which houses a four-part bell with a total weight of 3900 kg. The custom of naming the bells was deliberately abandoned, with the reasoning: “Today we live in a sober and objective time in which we no longer want to be able to personify and address things.” The inscriptions on the bells show that call them to praise God. The bells were consecrated on October 18, 1970 by Vicar General H. Henny and raised in the tower by the school youth on October 21.
| number | Weight | volume | inscription |
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| 1 | 1900 kg | of | "In God we live, we move and we are." (Acts 17:28) |
| 2 | 1000 kg | f | "The Spirit of the Lord fills the world" (Wis 1,7) |
| 3 | 600 kg | as | "Jesus Christ: Alpha and Omega, beginning and end." (Rev 1, 8) |
| 4th | 400 kg | b | "See, I am sending my angel before you to watch over you." (Ex 23:20) |
Interior and artistic equipment
In contrast to the hectic environment, the interior of the church was designed as an empty, airy space. The light guidance brings the daylight into the bright church space and makes it appear different depending on the time of day and light conditions. Zita Haselbach writes: “Both properties, the lack of images and the indirect light, are typical of the search for God in the 1970s. At that time we became cautious about our ideas about God, knowing that God surpasses them all. We have become more humble and we no longer claim to know the light of God directly. ”The artist Ro Studer-Koch says about the design of the church:“ The room must not be chatty, you have to avoid everything loud and autocratic and just step before God. ”The church has a round rear wall, which offers a feeling of security in this emptiness of the church space. This wall symbolizes the hand of God. In the center of the room is the altar around which the congregation gathers. Shaped by the Second Vatican Council , the church space expresses the community of believers, who gather around the altar as a table of bread without hierarchical distance from pastors and church people. The altar is at the lowest point in the church. As a place of God's presence, the altar also expresses the incarnation of God, who has descended into this world. The altar has twelve pillars that refer to the twelve tribes of the people of Israel and the twelve apostles . The altar columns consist of railway sleepers “over which life has passed. They remind us that we build on the people who embarked on the path with God before us. However, the wood of the table top is new, just as the presence of God is always anew reality. ”The baptismal font is designed as a baptismal font with bubbling water. Adjacent to the church there is a sacrament chapel , which offers the faithful the opportunity to come to rest and pray in front of the tabernacle . In contrast to the church, the vertical is emphasized in the sacrament chapel. The tabernacle consists of a cross made almost entirely of wood rising up towards the sky. A third sacred place is the Marienkapelle , which is modeled after a house church of the first Christians . Originally it was thought that the congregation could have gathered around a large table in this room for both the Lord's Supper and the secular meal. However, this idea could not prevail. In 2014, the original design of the church was supplemented by two crosses: one is in the church and is firmly anchored in the earth, in this life, the other is a newly created tower cross that connects the church with heaven.
Sacrament chapel with tabernacle by Ro Studer-Koch
Arcade
Apostle Crosses
Chapel of the Virgin Mary chapel
organ
The organ was built by Mönch Orgelbau , Überlingen, in 1971 and, on the occasion of a cleaning and overhaul in 2007, the two string parts pointed viol 8 ′ and harp pipe 8 ′ were added. The conception and expertise was carried out in 1971 by Ruedi Wäger, Kreuzlingen. The instrument is located on the left side of the altar area and has a three-part organ case in the form of three trapezoids. The Hauptwerk and the Pedalwerk are next to each other, the Rückpositiv is centrally in front of it. The gaming table is free to the left of the Rückpositiv. The instrument has slide chests, a mechanical action mechanism and an electrical registry. As part of the church renovation in 2013, the organ case was redesigned.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- 2 free combinations, org. Pleno, tutti, single tongue storage, crescendo roller, cresc. off, tongues off
In the Marienkapelle there is an organ by Späth Orgelbau from 1986 with the following disposition:
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literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Peter Niederhäuser and Flurina Pescatore: St. Peter and Paul. The mother church of Katholisch-Winterthur. Winterthur 2006.
- Zita Haselbach: Theology of the church space. In: Parish bulletin St. Peter and Paul, St. Ulrich. Issue December 2013 to February 2014, pp. 18–20.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Hrsg.): Schematismus. Pp. 267-268.
- ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. Zurich 1989, p. 192
- ^ Peter Niederhäuser and Flurina Pescatore: St. Peter and Paul. The mother church of Katholisch-Winterthur , pp. 8–9.
- ^ Peter Niederhäuser and Flurina Pescatore: St. Peter and Paul. The mother church of Katholisch-Winterthur , pp. 10-14.
- ^ Parish website, Parish history section. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (ed.): Annual Report 2014. Zurich 2014, p. 79.
- ^ Catholic parish of Winterthur, counting of Catholics as of December 31, 2017.
- ^ Zita Haselbach: Theology of the church space. In: Parish bulletin St. Peter and Paul, St. Ulrich. Edition December 2013 to February 2014, p. 18.
- ^ Gebhard Matt: Bell consecration of the St. Ulrichs Church in Rosenberg. Newspaper article from October 1970.
- ^ Parish website, Parish history section. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
- ^ Zita Haselbach: Theology of the church space. In: Parish bulletin St. Peter and Paul, St. Ulrich. Edition December 2013 to February 2014, p. 18.
- ^ Zita Haselbach: Theology of the church space. In: Parish bulletin St. Peter and Paul, St. Ulrich. Edition December 2013 to February 2014, p. 18.
- ^ Zita Haselbach: Theology of the church space. In: Parish bulletin St. Peter and Paul, St. Ulrich. Edition December 2013 to February 2014, p. 19.
- ^ Zita Haselbach: Theology of the church space. In: Parish bulletin St. Peter and Paul, St. Ulrich. Issue December 2013 to February 2014, pp. 19–20.
- ↑ Information from Mönch Orgelbau from January 13, 2014.
Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '1.7 " N , 8 ° 43' 12.6" E ; CH1903: 696 527 / 263721