Zwinglihaus (Zurich)

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Zwinglihaus

The Zwinglihaus is a turretless Reformed Church at the Aemtlerstrasse 23 in the district of Wiedikon in Zurich . It is used by the reformed Waldensian congregation in Zurich, the Chiesa evangelica di lingua italiana .

Building history

After the once independent community of Wiedikon grew rapidly from the middle of the 19th century and became a district of Zurich through the incorporation in 1893, the Wiedikon school and prayer house from 1791 quickly became too small for the Reformed parish and in 1896 supplemented by the new building of the Bühl church . In order to be close to the large families in the Sihlfeld district , the Wiedikon parish decided in the 1910s to build another church. In 1915 an architecture competition took place, in which the jury decided from the 84 projects submitted for that of the brothers Adolf and Heinrich Bräm, who had grown up in Wiedikon. The church was built in 1925, four years after the construction of the neighboring Catholic Church Herz Jesu Wiedikon .

Building description

The church is a neo-Romanesque - neo-classical building, to which the parish hall is attached at right angles. The church stands out clearly from the attached parish hall and, with its exterior designed as a classical temple, dominates the corner between Kalkbreitestrasse and Aemtlerstrasse . Between the two wings of the building there is a church square, which is separated from the streets by a wall with a wrought-iron fence. In the middle of the church front on Aemtlerstrasse there is a statue of Huldrych Zwingli , who gave the church its name , in a niche above a semicircular fountain , it was designed by Otto Kappeler.

The church was built into the building on the upper floor. It is a three-aisled room divided by arched arcades on a rectangular floor plan. The choir area is in the southwest, a vestibule was attached to the church in the northeast. The main entrance is in the north, where the church and parish hall meet. The church has galleries on all four sides . The space is structured by sandstone pillars with romanised capitals, further by the pulpit, an arched organ loft and a dark beamed ceiling. The interior includes an angel figure by Paul Bodmer on the nave wall and paintings in the nave, which thematize scenes from the New Testament and come from Hermann Huber , Reinhold Kündig ( Last Judgment ) and Carl Roesch (corner pictures). The glass paintings were designed by Otto Meyer-Amden , the capitals by Otto Kappler.

The building is listed and classified as cantonal worthy of protection (middle of the three levels). Today the church belongs to the reformed city association.

Organs

The Zwinglihaus has two organs : an instrument from 1924, which was built or modified by the organ builders Kuhn and Max Maag and which is now unplayable on the choir side above the pulpit. The second organ is functional and was built in 1986 by the organ builder Metzler .

Kuhn organ from 1924

In 1924 the older of the two organs was built as a pneumatic pocket organ by Carl Theodor Kuhn, Männedorf. The instrument originally had 42 stops on 3 manuals including a pedal. The organ was revised in 1940 by the builder company and expanded to 3 manuals with 51 sounding stops. In 1971 the instrument was rebuilt by Maag Organ Builders, Zurich. The action was electrified and the instrument received the typical Maag valves (solenoid valves). The organ now had 48 sounding registers plus 23 excerpts / transmissions on 3 manuals and pedal, which results in 71 stops on the console. The newly designed organ was built in the case and behind the unchanged prospect of the Kuhn organ from 1924. However, the instrument was already unplayable in 1979 due to technical defects. Several reports confirmed that the organ could not have been restored, or only at very high cost. Therefore, the multiplex organ was replaced by the Metzler organ from 1984, which was built on the opposite side. The Kuhn or Maag organ remained unchanged in the unplayable state.

Metzler organ from 1984

The Metzler organ is a slider-drawer instrument with 36 registers on three manuals and a pedal and is arranged in the neo-baroque style. The playing and stop actions are mechanical. In 1999 and 2006 the instrument was revised by the builder company.

I Swell C – g 3
Wooden flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Suavial 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Duplicate 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Schalmey 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
viola 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Night horn 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
III Breastwork C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Sesquialtera II
Flageolet 2 ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cimbel III 1'
shelf 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Building Department of the City of Zurich: Reformed Churches of the City of Zurich. Special inventory. Zurich 2006, pp. 96–98.
  2. ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein, section Ref. Zwinglihaus Zurich-Wiedikon, organ from 1984. Accessed on August 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ More information about the organ
  4. ^ Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein, section Ref. Zwinglihaus Zurich-Wiedikon, organ from 1984. Accessed on August 8, 2015.

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '18.4 "  N , 8 ° 30' 54.8"  E ; CH1903:  681313  /  247328