Bell House Foundation

Bell House Foundation
Legal form:	Foundation, endowment
Purpose:	Operation of properties from whose income Cevi Zurich carries out its activities.
Chair:	Fritz Jackli
Consist:	since 1976
Seat:	Zurich
Website:	www.glockenhof.org

no founder specified

According to the entry in the Zurich Commercial Register, the purpose of the Glockenhaus Foundation in Zurich is to manage and operate its properties on Sihlstrasse 31-33 in Zurich on a non-profit basis, so that Cevi Zurich can carry out its activities in accordance with its objectives in the Cevi-Zentrum Sihlstrasse 33. The foundation's supervisory authority is the Zurich City Council . 15 of the 25 members of the Board of Trustees are elected by Cevi Zurich .

General

The building complex is known as the Glockenhof or Gloggi . Neighboring buildings include the newer St. Anna Chapel of the Evangelical Society of Zurich . Before the building complex was built, the area was called St. Anna's area. Many clubs also meet in the rented rooms of the Glockenhof. The Gloggi- Pfadi is also located at the Cevi Center in the same entrance .

The house has been a listed building since 2010. The aim is to cover the costs for the Cevi center with the income from the hotel operations. The Hotel Glockenhof is independent and works with all common booking platforms worldwide.

history

The Glockenhof takes its name from the Füssli bell foundry , which stood here for several centuries. The St. Stephen's Chapel, whose origins go back to the 4th century and was probably the first parish church in Zurich, was located in the same location. It was canceled in 1528.

The historic St. Anna Chapel from 1387 stood at today's St. Annahof department store on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Füsslistrasse. This housed the Catholic community from 1807 to 1844, the Evangelical Society of Zurich from 1847 to 1860 , the Anglican community until 1895 and the Lutheran community until 1912. Then the modern department store was built. A second St. Anna chapel was built on St. Annagasse as early as 1863. With the construction of the Glockenhof in 1911, the St. Anna Chapel became part of the same building complex as the building of the Zurich Free Gymnasium , which later moved out .

The Glockenhof building was created to meet the space requirements of the YMCA Zurich 1, founded in 1887. A forerunner of the YMCA Zurich was the Christian Youth Association, which was merged into the YMCA Zurich in 1900. The YMCA like the Evangelical Society of Zurich and others opposed the movement critical of the Bible in the Reformed regional church. Henri Dunant founded Switzerland 's first cevi in Geneva in 1852 . Dunant helped found the YMCA World Federation. This is based in Geneva.

The Glockenhof was founded as a cooperative in 1908 when the building complex was being planned. In 1976 it was decided to convert the cooperative into a foundation in order to preserve the Glockenhof in the long term.

Web links

Commons : Glockenhof (Zurich) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website

Individual evidence

^ Entry in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich on December 3, 1976 (accessed on: January 31, 2012) see moneyhouse.ch
↑ Peter Schäppi: Foreword by the Foundation President. In: Carole N. Klopfenstein, Hansjürg Büchi, Karl Walder (eds.): Anchored in the center of Zurich. 100 years of Glockenhof Zurich. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17585-6 , p. 7.
^ Daniel A. Walser: The CVJM builds. The Glockenhof as an urban spatial work of art. In: Carole N. Klopfenstein, Hansjürg Büchi, Karl Walder (eds.): Anchored in the center of Zurich. 100 years of Glockenhof Zurich. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17585-6 , pp. 37–39.
^ Helmut Meyer, Bernhard Schneider: Mission and Diakonie. The history of the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Zurich. Chronos, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0340-1060-3 , pp. 95–96.
↑ Verena E. Müller: A look at the prehistory. In: Carole N. Klopfenstein, Hansjürg Büchi, Karl Walder (eds.): Anchored in the center of Zurich. 100 years of Glockenhof Zurich. Theologischer Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17585-6 , p. 18.
^ Andréa Kaufmann: The not gray eminences. From the cooperative to the foundation to the bell house. In: Carole N. Klopfenstein, Hansjürg Büchi, Karl Walder (eds.): Anchored in the center of Zurich. 100 years of Glockenhof Zurich. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17585-6 , p. 179 f.

[1] Entry in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich on December 3, 1976 (accessed on: January 31, 2012) see moneyhouse.ch

[2] Peter Schäppi: Foreword by the Foundation President. In: Carole N. Klopfenstein, Hansjürg Büchi, Karl Walder (eds.): Anchored in the center of Zurich. 100 years of Glockenhof Zurich. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17585-6 , p. 7.

[3] Daniel A. Walser: The CVJM builds. The Glockenhof as an urban spatial work of art. In: Carole N. Klopfenstein, Hansjürg Büchi, Karl Walder (eds.): Anchored in the center of Zurich. 100 years of Glockenhof Zurich. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17585-6 , pp. 37–39.

[4] Helmut Meyer, Bernhard Schneider: Mission and Diakonie. The history of the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Zurich. Chronos, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0340-1060-3 , pp. 95–96.

[5] Verena E. Müller: A look at the prehistory. In: Carole N. Klopfenstein, Hansjürg Büchi, Karl Walder (eds.): Anchored in the center of Zurich. 100 years of Glockenhof Zurich. Theologischer Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17585-6 , p. 18.

[6] Andréa Kaufmann: The not gray eminences. From the cooperative to the foundation to the bell house. In: Carole N. Klopfenstein, Hansjürg Büchi, Karl Walder (eds.): Anchored in the center of Zurich. 100 years of Glockenhof Zurich. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17585-6 , p. 179 f.