Zürcherhaus residence
| Zürcherhaus | ||
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 Zürcherhaus |
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| Alternative name (s): | Brunnenfeld residence | |
| Creation time : | before 1300 | |
| Place: | Bludenz | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 8 '35 " N , 9 ° 50' 0" E | |
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The former residence Brunnenfeld - now called Zürcherhaus - is located in the Brunnenfeld district of the same name , in the southern part of the city of Bludenz (Vorarlberg).
history
The Lords of Brunnenfeld, first mentioned in a document in 1274, were ministerials of the Counts of Werdenberg . The best-known representative of this Bludenz patrician family was Gerung von Brunnenfeld, who was in the diplomatic service of Duke Heinrich of Carinthia-Tyrol around 1320 and was knighted.
In 1370 Ulrich von Brunnenfeld was administrator of the court of St. Peter auf der Platte, which functioned as a manorial center for the lordly owner-occupied in the Montafon. Philipp von Brunnenfeld, who was called a citizen of Bludenz between 1377 and 1394, is the last known male representative of these Bludenz patricians. With Margarethe von Brunnenfeld, the family died out after 1411.
The von Guldenböck residents of Zurich lived here from around 1600 to 1730/40. The family came from Switzerland and named themselves after their origins and they were also patricians of Bludenz. According to them, the residence served as a bourgeois residence, but the memory of this family has been preserved in its current name.
architecture
The core of the three-storey building with a high pitched roof dates from the 13th century. The facade shows an irregular arrangement of the windows, which today mostly have wooden shutters.
On the ground floor, a barrel-vaulted central aisle opens up rooms and chambers on both sides. The stone spindle of a Gothic spiral staircase is still there. On the first floor there is a large hall with a wooden coffered ceiling, the living rooms on the upper floors have partly simple stucco ceilings. On the second floor, renaissance doors in pilaster frames from the beginning of the 17th century have been preserved.
Many renovations changed the building to its present state of preservation. In 1935 it received the steep gable roof and the wooden porch on the western gable front.
On the old garden wall next to the mansion there is a wayside shrine on which it was written: “The Swedish riders got this far and no further”. The owner of Brunnenfeld at the time had donated the Marterl as a thank you for the fact that the Swedes spared Bludenz from pillage in the Thirty Years' War against payment of a large sum.
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Tschaikner: The Montafon court on the plate near St. Peter, in Bludenzer Geschichtsblätter, No. 94, 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Entry via Brunnenfeld (Zürcherhaus) on Burgen-Austria