Archive for farmhouse research

Archive for farmhouse research
scope	200,000 photo negatives, 24,000 slides, 10,000 plan drawings
ISIL	CH-001401-1
carrier	Swiss Society for Folklore
Website	zg.ch/.../bauernhausforschung

The archive of Swiss farmhouse research existed at Hofstrasse 15 in Zug until 2019 . Afterwards the holdings were handed over to the open-air museum Ballenberg . It includes a specialist library as well as photo negatives, slides, aerial photographs, inventory sheets and plan drawings of rural buildings in Switzerland and Europe. The holdings served primarily as a basis for research projects, primarily for the publication series “The Farmers' Houses in Switzerland”. The archive was also used for the scientific preparation of the assemblies for the Ballenberg open-air museum, which opened in 1978.

history

The establishment of the “House and Settlement Research ” department of the Swiss Society for Folklore (SGV) in 1919 marked the beginning of systematic documentation and research into farmhouses in Switzerland . From 1932, the SGV, in cooperation with the federal government and the cantons, commissioned unemployed technicians and architects to carry out plans for rural buildings. Between 1933 and 1939 several hundred plans for Swiss farmhouses were drawn up, which laid the foundation for the archive for farmhouse research. In 1944 the “Farmhouse Research Campaign in Switzerland” was launched to continue the inventory in the various cantons and to coordinate it from a central office in Basel .

From the 1960s on, high school students were included in the “Farmhouse Research Campaign”. Under the guidance of geography teachers or cantonal officials, the students recorded brief inventories with descriptions, floor plans and photos.

Until 1989 the “Central Archive of the Farmhouse Research Campaign” was housed in the Folklore Museum in Basel. Due to renovation work in the museum, the archive and the office were moved to the Zug heritage site in 1990. At that time, the archive manager at the time, Benno Furrer, was researching the farmhouses in the canton of Zug , which enabled this synergy.

"The farmhouses of Switzerland"

The archives' holdings were primarily used to research farmhouses in Switzerland, which has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation since 1964 . The research projects are broken down by canton and the results are published in the “Farmhouses in Switzerland” series. The first book in the series was published in 1965 and was dedicated to the canton of Graubünden . The last three volumes were published in 2019. The work replaced Jakob Hunziker's seven-volume publication Das Schweizerhaus, depicted according to its landscape forms and its historical development .

literature

Benno Furrer: Building Research - Farmhouse Research. At the end of the “Swiss Farmhouse Research” project. In: Tugium. Yearbook of the State Archives of the Canton of Zug, the Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology, the Cantonal Museum for Prehistory (s) Zug and the Museum Burg Zug. Volume 34. Ed. By the Government Council of the Canton of Zug, Zug 2018, pp. 91–101.

Web links

Publication series "The Farmhouses of Switzerland"

Individual evidence

^ Benno Furrer: Building research - farmhouse research. At the end of the “Swiss Farmhouse Research” project. In: Tugium. Yearbook of the State Archives of the Canton of Zug, the Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology, the Cantonal Museum for Prehistory (s) Zug and the Museum Burg Zug. Volume 34. Ed. By the Government Council of the Canton of Zug, Zug 2018, pp. 91–92.
^ ^A ^b Benno Furrer: Building research - farmhouse research. At the end of the “Swiss Farmhouse Research” project. In: Tugium. Yearbook of the State Archives of the Canton of Zug, the Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology, the Cantonal Museum for Prehistory (s) Zug and the Museum Burg Zug. Volume 34. Ed. By the Government Council of the Canton of Zug, 2018, p. 96.
↑ Jakob Hunziker: The Swiss House, depicted according to its landscape forms and its historical development. Volumes I – VIII. Sauerländer, Aarau 1900–1914.

[1] Benno Furrer: Building research - farmhouse research. At the end of the “Swiss Farmhouse Research” project. In: Tugium. Yearbook of the State Archives of the Canton of Zug, the Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology, the Cantonal Museum for Prehistory (s) Zug and the Museum Burg Zug. Volume 34. Ed. By the Government Council of the Canton of Zug, Zug 2018, pp. 91–92.

[furrer96-2] A ^b Benno Furrer: Building research - farmhouse research. At the end of the “Swiss Farmhouse Research” project. In: Tugium. Yearbook of the State Archives of the Canton of Zug, the Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology, the Cantonal Museum for Prehistory (s) Zug and the Museum Burg Zug. Volume 34. Ed. By the Government Council of the Canton of Zug, 2018, p. 96.

[3] Jakob Hunziker: The Swiss House, depicted according to its landscape forms and its historical development. Volumes I – VIII. Sauerländer, Aarau 1900–1914.