Village school building Windisch
The Windisch village school is a school building in Windisch in the canton of Aargau . It is a Swiss cultural asset of regional importance .
History and description
The new school building, decided in 1878, had to be postponed due to the unfavorable financial situation of the community. In 1885 a project planned to demolish the old school building in favor of the planned new building. Then the community was able to purchase a piece of land west of the intended building site, whereupon a new project was worked out. In 1886, the community assembly approved the plans of the architects Hermann Reutlinger (1843–1905) and Johann Heinrich Reutlinger (1841–1912) in Zurich . On September 23, 1888, the new building , which was slightly under the budget of 132,000 francs , was inaugurated. The generously designed, modern building was awarded a bronze medal at the World Exhibition in Paris .
Until 1965, the ground floor housed the community administration, consisting of the office , archive , community council room and community library in the east wing as well as the community hall. In connection with a necessary renovation of the school building, an expansion of the Dorfstrasse school complex was considered since the mid-1980s. The project by Carlo Tognola (architects' office Tognola, Stahel and Zulauf in Windisch) was carried out in 1986 , adding an extension based on the dimensions of the old building to the rear staircase projection. In 1988 the old building was renovated.
architecture
The village school house is a three-storey, late classicist wall construction under a straight hipped roof . A three-axis central risalit with a gable crown and palisat structure accentuates the main axis of the strictly symmetrical structure. This has nine window axes along its length and three window axes on the narrow sides, and is framed by corner pilasters and a cornice with console . The ground floor is identified by a joint pattern in the plaster as the building plinth and has arched windows with console-decorated block benches.
The rectangular windows on the first floor are crowned with a cornice above a continuous cornice (partially replaced during the exterior renovation in 1987/88). The architectural decoration is concentrated on the central axis of the building, where the central window is crowned by a segmental arch above the wide arched portal. The keystone of the south-facing portal is carved with the Windisch coat of arms and the year 1888. The oak entrance doors with tall skylights preserve the original cast iron grating. The entire building has a basement: under the former community hall in the form of a cross vault over four mighty pillars, otherwise through barrel vaulted cellars of various sizes.
Carefully restored and supplemented by a functional, architecturally restrained extension, the village school building forms an important accent in the townscape of Windisch.
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- KGS alarm file, ZSO Brugg Region, KGS inventory number 901.
- Max Baumann: History of Windisch. From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. Effingerhof Brugg, 1983.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '52.3 " N , 8 ° 13' 22.6" E ; CH1903: six hundred fifty-nine thousand one hundred and sixteen / 259,233