Katholische Kirche Dübendorf, Modern concrete church in Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Maria Frieden is a 45-metre-long concrete church with a basilical plan, built 1950–1952 to designs by Ferdinand Pfammatter and Walter Rieger. A three-quarter barrel vault rises 18 metres, its ribs sweeping down between the window walls to the floor, while low side aisles heighten the effect. The polygonal apse mirrors the polygonal entrance front, where the organ gallery and a large window rose sit; a Lady chapel is built across the facade. The 45-metre tower was completed in 1963.
Catholic services resumed in Dübendorf only in 1897, first in the dance hall of the Restaurant Kreuz. In 1902 the parish bought a former alpine dairy hut on Wilstrasse, consecrated as an emergency chapel on 21 December 1902 and used for fifty years. The present church was built 1950–1952 to plans by Ferdinand Pfammatter and Walter Rieger; Bishop Christian Caminada of Chur consecrated it on 27 April 1952. The parish had been raised to independent status on 7 December 1926.
The parish is named after Maria Frieden, Mary Queen of Peace, to whom Bishop Christian Caminada consecrated the church on 27 April 1952. The window programme was devised by Alois Ender, parish priest from 1942 to 1968. The parish also served as mother parish of Wallisellen, separated on 1 January 1927, and still includes Fällanden and Schwerzenbach.
The church stands at the corner of Wilstrasse and Leepüntstrasse in Dübendorf's town centre. The nave seats 400 people after the rear pews under the organ gallery were removed. The 45 m tower equals the church's length, and its cross measures 4.20 m.
The fourth and fifth bells are dedicated to Saint Elias, patron of pilots, and Saint Barbara, patron of the army and towers, a nod to Dübendorf's military airfield. The six bronze bells, cast by H. Rüetschi of Aarau, weigh 14,820 kg together and were first rung at Easter 1963.
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