Farmhouse
The Ackerhaus is a Toggenburg house from the 18th century in the Toggenburg municipality of Ebnat-Kappel in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen . It has housed a Toggenburg local history museum that has been open to the public since 1952 .
history
The stately Toggenburgerhaus originally stood on the Füberg north of Oberhelfenschwil . It was built in 1752 by the caretaker Jacob Kuontz-Wettstein and his wife Marie. After several changes of ownership, the community bought it in 1870 and used it as a poor house . In 1949 the house was empty. Albert Edelmann took over the building that was about to be demolished and had it dismantled in the spring of 1950.
In 1951/1952 it was rebuilt and restored as an “Ackerhaus” at its current location “im Acker” in the former municipality of Ebnat . The retired comprehensive school teacher Edelmann set up his inhabited museum for rural living culture, everyday objects and musical instruments from Toggenburg. After his death in 1963, the Albert Edelmann Foundation continued to run the museum.
After the turn of the millennium, a reorientation was necessary. In 2014, the Board of Trustees approved extensive structural and operational redesign. The concept includes the connection of the cultural venue and the museum past with a newly designed permanent exhibition.
Construction and modifications
The stately knitted building with the steep nail roof stands on the threshold rim that rests on the brick basement. The representative gable front is decorated with open adhesive roofs , shutters and baroque paintings. While the front structure made of larch and pine wood was rebuilt identically, the rotten rear wall was rebuilt as a stud structure . A staircase under the arbor leads to the side entrance . The spatial structure corresponds to the floor plan common from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. On the ground floor there is a room on the valley side and the somewhat narrower side room, on the mountain side there is a large smoking kitchen across the width of the house .
During the reconstruction in Ebnat in 1951/1952, the farmhouse was supplemented with spolia from all of eastern Switzerland . Some of the stones in the basement are from the Starkenstein ruins , while those from the arched opening from the cellar of the dismantled house in Füberg. Parts from demolitions were used for the interior work. So Staircase and pedestal railings are from the gallery of the church Ebnat , in the parlor of the stove from Lüpfertwil (Ebnat-Kappel) and the paneling in the Renaissance style of Roggwil , paneling and floor of the adjoining room from the "angel" in St. Gallen- Rotmonten , the wallpaper there from a factory owner's house in the Sidwald , the key plate from Ulrich Bräker's house where he was born, and the plain tiles from Richterswil . A one-story music room was added to the side and a painting studio at the back. Albert Edelmann repainted the front and roof soffit with motto of his brother-in-law Heinrich Edelmann.
In 2015, the former music room was replaced by an extension with a clapboard facade and an asymmetrical tent-shaped roof. It contains an exhibition and a concert hall. The historic knitted building was gently renovated and the roof soffits painted by Edelmann were covered with boards.
museum
The Ackerhus Museum shows objects of the Toggenburg house culture from four centuries. In addition to household items and equipment from Toggenburg, the collection contains rural paintings , pictures by Babeli Giezendanner and other painters, seven Toggenburg house organs and cervical zithers . At the end of the 19th century, the cervical zither game was forgotten in Toggenburg. It is thanks to Albert Edelmann that this tradition has been revived. The side room is dedicated to the Biedermeier period in Toggenburg. Edelmann's former studio shows his résumé and his work. While the museum offers encounters with the past, the cultural venue is open to the present.
See also
literature
- Oliver Orest Tschirky: Ebnat-Kappel Heimatmuseum Ackerhus. In: Annual Report 2015 - Focus on exterior design. Edited by the Preservation of Monuments of the Canton of St. Gallen and the Preservation of Monuments of the City of St. Gallen. On the website of the Canton of St. Gallen. Pp. 21–24 (PDF; 17.2 MB)
- Armin Müller: The Ackerhus of the Albert Edelmann Foundation in Ebnat-Kappel. In: Appenzeller Calendar, Volume 267 (1988) (archived in E-Periodica.ch of the ETH Library , PDF; 17.2 MB).
- Jost Kirchgraber, Heinrich Oberli: Moving Houses. In: Toggenburger Annalen 1994. Verlag E. Kalberer, Bazenheid. On the Pro Altes Haus website (PDF; 7.7 MB)
- Jakob Naef: Distinctive witnesses from old times in Ebnat-Kappel. In: Appenzeller Calendar, Volume 257 (1978) (archived in E-Periodica.ch, PDF; 5.6 MB).
- Martin Knoepfel: Board of Trustees turns the traffic light to green. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), February 14, 2014
- Martin Knoepfel: Start of construction for a new cultural space. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), January 17, 2015
Web links
- Ackerhus - Museum of House Culture Toggenburg. Museum website
- Windbläss - Toggenburg House Organ Association
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '2.2 " N , 9 ° 7' 20.4" E ; CH1903: 727409 / 236518