Bleulerhaus

The Bleulerhaus in Rapperswil

The back alley in Rapperswil

The Bleulerhaus is a town house on Hintergasse in the heart of the old town of the Rapperswil district of the Swiss municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen .

history

The distinctive town house was built in the 13th century as an outbuilding to Rapperswil Castle , to which it is still connected by an underground passage. During the 15th / 16th In the 19th century, the exterior was redesigned and adapted to the residential buildings in the back alley.

The neo-Gothic new building was built between 1603 and 1606 by master builder Ulli Stierli von Rapperswil instead of three individual buildings, taking into account the high medieval building structures. Around 1620, the noble Swabian von Beyern family acquired the property; During the Thirty Years' War it served as the seat of the Säckingen canonesses Ursula and Margaretha.

At the end of the 17th century, the building became the residence of the goldsmith Fidel Dumeisen and his son and in the late 18th century it came into the possession of the Fuchs and Rothenfluh families, who redesigned the interior.

In 1968 the local community of Rapperswil (-Jona) acquired the property and had the building undergo a complete renovation.

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Web links

Commons : Bleulerhaus (Rapperswil)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Building history based on the description on the Bleuerhaus

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '36.4 "  N , 8 ° 48' 55"  E ; CH1903:  704256  /  231564