Office building (Meienberg)
The Amtshaus is a listed building in Meienberg , a village belonging to the municipality of Sins in the canton of Aargau . It was the seat of the clerk and court clerk of the Meienberg office , which was part of the common rule of the free offices until 1798 . The building is classified as a cultural asset of national importance .
Traces of fire show that the office building together with a residential tower once formed a building complex that dates back to the first half of the 13th century. The complex went up in flames when the Confederates destroyed the town in January 1386 during the Sempach War. The fire ruins were not made habitable again until 1575; A grooved keel arch door also dates from this period. In 1765 the building was given a decoratively painted stand facade with flamed shutters on its south side (today a copy, the originals have been in the Swiss National Museum since 1953 ). Next to the house entrance is the stake in the corner of the wall , the arched opening to the right of it is that of a former shop. The walls on the back of the office building are not plastered. In the center of the town square in front of it lying one suspects a buried 20 meters deep Sodbrunnen .
literature
- Georg Germann: The art monuments of the canton Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume V, Muri District. Birkhäuser, Basel 1967, p. 500-501 .
Web links
- History of the town of Meienberg
- Amtshaus (Meienberg) in the inventory of historical monuments of the Canton of Aargau
Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '51.5 " N , 8 ° 22' 29.6" E ; CH1903: six hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and forty-six / 227834