St. Urban (Winterthur Lakes)
The St. Urban Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Winterthur - Seen . It is on the corner of Seener and Landvogt-Waser-Strasse .
history
History and naming
Seen was first mentioned in a document in 744. The name refers to the lake between Grüze and Seen. Lakes are a Merovingian fiscal foundation. Archaeological excavations have proven the remains of the medieval chapel of St. Urban on the site of the choir of today's Reformed Church . Lakes to St. Arbogast in Oberwinterthur were part of the church . The tithe came to the Winterthur Hospital as a fief of the Bishop of Constance . After the Reformation in Zurich from 1523, a ban on the Catholic rite was issued in the area of today's Canton of Zurich and the medieval churches were henceforth used for Reformed worship.
The Edict of Tolerance of 1807 allowed Catholics to attend Catholic services again for the first time since the Reformation, albeit locally limited to the city of Zurich and the traditionally Catholic towns of Dietikon and Rheinau ZH . Due to the freedom of establishment and religious freedom of the Helvetic Republic and later of the Swiss federal state , it was possible for people from Eastern and Central Switzerland , but also from nearby Catholic countries, to move to the Winterthur region to find work in the emerging industry . In the years 1813 and 1840, the Catholics of the Winterthur region asked in vain for permission to hold services in the Winterthur Church of St. George. Only the First Church Law of Zurich allowed the establishment of the Catholic parish of Winterthur, which was founded in 1862. In 1868 the church of St. Peter and Paul Winterthur-Neuwiesen was opened. The influx of further Catholics to Winterthur made it necessary to set up further parishes. The Catholic residents of lakes had the opportunity to attend church services in the Church of St. Antonius Kollbrunn from 1898 . In 1934 the Church of the Heart of Jesus was inaugurated in the Mattenbach district , which was also responsible for the Catholics in Lakes.
The patronage of the medieval Church of Seen is taken up by the consecration of today's Catholic Church to St. Urban .
Development and construction history
In 1947 a Catholic association was founded in Seen, with the aim of establishing its own parish. The building boom that started in Seen after the Second World War meant that the Catholic parish of Winterthur tried to find a building site for a church in Seen. On July 17, 1957, it was possible to buy a first building site on Bollstrasse in Seen . This building site was too small for a church, but in 1962 it could be used as an exchange object for the area of today's church. From 1961 onwards, regular Catholic Sunday services took place in the Büelwiesen schoolhouse in Seen , which was supplemented from May 1, 1971 by an evening service on Saturday in the Reformed parish hall. On the weekend of 4./5. March 1972, the Roman Catholic voters approved the loan for the construction of a church in lakes. This was the first ballot in the Roman Catholic parish of Winterthur since it was founded in 1862. In the spirit of the Second Vatican Council , no monumental church was to be built, but a multifunctional church center with various rooms, offices and living spaces for the clergy . Benito Davi won the architecture competition. The official start of construction took place on June 16, 1972 with the blessing of the building site and the groundbreaking ceremony. On November 2nd, 1974 the church was inaugurated by the Bishop of Chur , Johannes Vonderach . From 2013 to 2014 the church center St. Urban was extensively renovated and reopened on November 29, 2014.
Today the parish of St. Urban is still part of the Catholic parish of Winterthur, which with its 25,882 members (as of 2014) is the largest Catholic parish in the canton of Zurich. The parish of St. Urban is responsible for 5,525 Catholics, making it numerically the largest of the seven parishes in the city of Winterthur.
Building description
Church tower and exterior
In the 1960s and 1970s, Catholic church architecture in Switzerland turned away from monumental church construction. A modest, functional architecture was preferred instead of a building that shaped the location. The church center St. Urban is an exemplary example of this construction period. Located on the corner of Seener and Landvogt-Waser-Strasse , the ecclesiastical center consists of a low church building, parish center and parsonage . The three parts of the building are closely connected and can hardly be seen from the outside as a church center. Only the low concrete tower on the north side of the ensemble, with its crosses embedded in the tower walls, refers to the ecclesiastical use of the building. In the tower there is a three-part bell that was cast on October 19, 1973 in the H. Rüetschi bell foundry .
| number | volume | dedication | inscription |
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| 1 | c | Death knell | Consummation in God |
| 2 | it | Church service bell | Fellowship in God |
| 3 | f | Baptismal bell | Source of Life |
The visitor arrives at the cubic concrete building of St. Urban via various entrances.
Interior and artistic equipment
An essential element of the spatial design is the multifunctionality of the rooms and the merging of the different building areas. The parsonage is the living area for the pastors, the parish offices, the various rooms and the church are all under one roof. The church space was designed in such a way that it can be divided by partition walls and also used for profane purposes. Behind the choir wall there is a separate area that is used for silence and prayer. The church interior implements the requirements of the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council: The rows of chairs are arranged in a semicircle around the altar area, so that the community of believers and pastors is made clear. Next to the popular altar is the ambo , which underlines the equality of word and sacrament . The tabernacle is attached to the choir wall and is set with semi-precious stones. Glass windows by Ferdinand Gehr give the sober room a sacred character.
Organs
Mathis organ from 1976
The church of St. Urban received the first organ in 1976. It is a mechanical instrument by Mathis Orgelbau with 10 registers, divided into two manuals including a pedal. This organ was mainly used for smaller church services and is located on the north side of the church. At larger church services, music was also played on a grand piano. As part of the renovation of the church center in 2013, it was decided to purchase a larger organ. The Mathis organ remained in the church, opposite the new Goll organ from 2015. In 2016 the small Mathis organ was revised.
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Goll organ (from 2015)
After the renovation was completed in 2013-2014, the new large organ, which, in contrast to the Mathis organ from 1976, is intended for use throughout the church, was built by the Goll company in spring 2015 . It is a mechanical instrument and has 25 stops on 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
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 268.
- ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. P. 268.
- ^ Website of the parish of St. Urban. Construction section of St. Urban. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2014. P. 79.
- ^ Catholic parish of Winterthur, counting of Catholics as of December 31, 2017.
- ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein, section Catholic Church St. Urban, Winterthur-Seen, small organ. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '16.3 " N , 8 ° 45' 32.9" E ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred sixteen / 260,516