Village gym
The village gymnasium and multi-purpose hall in Windisch in the canton of Aargau is a cultural asset of regional importance .
Building history and description
In 1911/12, behind the school and community building from 1888, a spacious gymnasium was built, which was also intended to serve as a meeting room and theater. The plans for this multi-purpose building come from Albert Froelich , architect in Brugg and Charlottenburg , who carried out several major construction projects in Brugg in the first quarter of the 20th century, e.g. B. was able to realize the Vindonissa Museum .
architecture
The elongated, compact Heimatstil building is subdivided under a staggered hipped roof into the middle section marked by rustic buttresses with the spacious gym and the annexes, which take up the additional functions of the building on the narrow sides. The gymnasium is illuminated by high arched windows . The central axes of both long sides, where wide arched portals lead into the hall, emphasize transverse gables. In the middle of the ridge there was originally a roof turret . On the exterior, the characteristic alternation between smooth plastered surfaces and rusticated house sections made of Jura limestone to emphasize the main cube reveals Froelich's signature. With the entrance area, main building and access wing as well as low corner cubes, the spatial staging is similar to that in the Vindonissa Museum, which was conceived recently .
swell
- KGS alarm file, ZSO Brugg Region, KGS inventory number 205.
- Max Baumann: History of Windisch. From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. Effingerhof, Brugg 1983.
- Gym in Windisch. In: Schweizer Bauzeitung. 60, 1920.
Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '55.6 " N , 8 ° 13' 20.4" E ; CH1903: 659,071 / 259,334