Klösterli (Zofingen)
The Klösterli is a baroque building in Zofingen , Switzerland . It is located in the south-eastern part of the old town at Klösterligasse 2. The building is classified as a cultural asset of national importance and is a listed building .
In 1603 Pastor Heinrich Dachstein acquired a plot of land near the former city wall and built a house on it. After his death, his seven daughters and the widow lived there, which is why the building was nicknamed "Klösterli" (small monastery). In 1727 Pastor Daniel Ringier-Suter had the house torn down and replaced by the building that still exists today. The later owners Sigmund Ringier and Georg Gränicher made some structural changes in the course of the 18th century. Today the building is used by a doctor's practice for child and adolescent psychiatry.
The Klösterli presents itself as a three-storey noble patrician house with a hipped roof . It's the only one in the old town with a garden. Rectangular and lancet windows (on the second floor) divide the building symmetrically into five by three axes, while pilaster strips emphasize the corners. A wooden loggia with Tuscan columns is attached to the north facade , the west facade bears a Ringier-Suter alliance coat of arms. The area is surrounded by a stone wall, with a stone garden house under a tent roof on the southwest corner and a wrought-iron portal between high pillars made of sandstone .
Inside, the doors have curved panels, all brass door locks and fittings have been preserved in their original state. In the vestibule there are stucco work in Empire style with pilasters and round arches, which are attributed to Johann Daniel Osterrieth . The tiled stove from 1783, a work by Wilhelm Emanuel Dittlinger and Peter Gnehm , shows a blue landscape on white. The rooms on the second floor have stucco ceilings, one of which is paneled with walnut .
literature
- Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I, districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948, p. 398-399 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '16.4 " N , 7 ° 56' 50.7" E ; CH1903: six hundred thirty-eight thousand four hundred eighty-eight / 237570