Engelplatz (Rapperswil)
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The Angels Place is a public square in the old town of Rapperswil , a district of the Swiss municipality Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen .
location
Located at the eastern end of the old town of Rapperswil , Engelplatz forms the end of Herrenberg and is east of the main square . It is a generously designed square with a central public fountain in front of the Haus zum Engel and is bordered by the Haus zum Alten Sternen . The square got its current name from the mural that adorned the former Gasthof zum Engel .
history
Engelplatz was the eastern access point to the city of roses and remained the only overland access to Rapperswil until the construction of Rickenstrasse (today Neue Jonastrasse). Due to its geographical location, the cattle market of the surrounding court communities took place on the north side of the square . The Obere Halsplatz was originally named after the Halsturm and the Halstor , the bulwark of the eastern expansion of the city in the 14th century - the area was used for the deployment of defense troops in times of war.
The traffic on the land side of the city of roses led to and from the south-facing gate over the pier and to the harbor at the fish market square via the then open Schanz and star ditch of the city fortifications . On the south side of the Halstor, at the Quellenhof , the Stadtbach , which was derived from the Jona , was led underground into the city through Herrengasse to the Stadtmühle, ensured the water supply and supplied energy for the businesses in the Giessi near Lake Zurich.
During the siege of Rapperswil (1656) the bulwark of the eastern city fortifications proved their worth and inflicted heavy losses on the attacking Zurich troops. In his 260-page diary, Johann Peter Dietrich, town clerk and mayor of Rapperswil, describes how the city of Rapperswil “was besieged very hard by Zurich between the 7th Jenner 1656 to the 11th Merz 1656 by sea and on land, but in vain " has been. The first bombardment of the city began at 9 a.m. - the first and the second shot hit the Halsturm, and by the time the siege was broken, around 300 projectiles hit the Haus zum Alten Sternen, the Halsturm, the Halstor and the walled houses of the Wall. They inflicted severe damage to the buildings and their residents and destroyed the “ Dicken Turm ” and the neighboring schoolhouse, but the walls held up.
With the completion of Rickenstrasse, the city gate and the bulwark were demolished, except for the adjoining Haus zum Alten Sternen in 1830. The demolition of the landside city fortifications was in connection with the guarantee of all-day through traffic required by the daily statute and the cantonal government. The large sandstone relief with the city coat of arms and the coat of arms held by two angels in the city museum are the only remaining remains of the city gate. At the entrance to the square, the location of the Halsturm and city gate is marked with paving stones embedded in the paving.
Attractions
The house to the old stars with painted corner pilasters and several magnificent civil and commercial buildings with cafés and small shops significantly shape the appearance of the square and still emphasize the importance of the former eastern access to the city:
- The Haus zum Engel (Engelplatz 1) is a former inn and is first mentioned in 1530 as the property of Hans Heinrich Rotheflue. The late Gothic facade from the 16th century with a mural designed by Jost Blöchlinger, as well as the representative gable facade and the cornices are worth seeing. The following owners included the families of a town clerk, a pastor, a foreman, a district court president, a carpenter's shop, a hat maker and a bookbinder. The municipality of Rapperswil acquired the building in 1967 and restored and renovated it. The house facade is decorated with an angel, painted around 1970 by the well-known artist Jost Blöchliger.
- The Engelplatz 4 property was built on the Rapperswil city wall in 1350 in the 16th century and is first mentioned in 1571. From 1625 to 1758, the majority of the Fuchs family owned the house, in 1786 it was acquired by the baker Ulrich Beny. In the cadastre from 1802 parish resigned Basilius Breny is mentioned as the owner, who sold it to the bookbinder Ferdinand Breny in 1832, with the condition stipulated in the purchase letter, “ The buyer is obliged to the Mariana Kuster, housewife of the titular parish resigned B Breny to give a decent room to live in in the house mentioned above for life. Lifelong only refers to as long as the same single status is ". From 1848 to 1877 the house housed, among other things, a book printing shop, a saddlery and a sheet metal workshop. In 1898 the house name Löwen is mentioned, a restaurant with Swiss cuisine run by the Good family, now a restaurant with Thai cuisine.
- The Phoenix house (Engelplatz 6) and the two adjacent town houses were also integrated into the city wall in the late 16th century. From 1642 to 1691 it was owned by the Peter Fuchs family. Carl Anton Zuppiger took over the house in 1758 and set up a forge on the ground floor; In 1824 it was referred to as the Haus im Feueress , and from 1873 as a residential building with a painter's workshop and a canopy owned by painter Heinrich Walder. In 1897, the heirs sold the building, now called Haus zum Phoenix , after the attic had been increased , to Caspar Melchior Albert Gebert, master plumber, co-founder of the Geberit company . Today the house is used by a violin maker and an entrepreneur.
House to the angel
Quellenhof
Age stars and fountains
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- The adjacent property at Engelplatz 8 comes from the same construction period and is first mentioned in 1692 in the possession of Marc Oswald. In 1716 Hans Melcher Meyer, Drechsler, is mentioned as the owner and in 1746 Melchior Meyer, council clerk, who acquired the property in the neck for 480 guilders. In 1809 the property went to the carpenter Johann Schneider for 900 guilders, and from 1824 to 1831 the value increased from 1200 to 3000 guilders because of buildings . The coppersmith Felix Helbling bought the property in 1852 for 2,700 guilders, in 1871 the master joiner Johann Helbling acquired the property and sold it in 1873 to his brother, the master baker Valentin Helbling, who set up the Brod & Feinbäckerei Helbling on the ground floor . In 1906 he sold the house to the baker Paul Gottlob Scheck, whose family owned the house with the bakery until 1994 . Today there is a café here.
- The house at Engelplatz 10 was also built in the 16th century on the Rapperswil city wall from 1350. From 1616 to 1782 it was owned by the Fuchs family, until 1856 it belonged to the Wettstein family, who sold the building to the carpenter Joseph Anton Winiger. In 1885 Konrad Urech, painter, took over the property, in 1901 Jens Jensen Möller, a Danish master painter, became the owner of the building. In 1967 the property dealer Werner Huser acquired the building and set up the Café Altstadt ("gas light café"), which was operated until 1979.
- The property at St. Johanner (Engelplatz 12), together with the neighboring building, has also formed part of the north-eastern city wall since 1551. In 1572 the glazier Hans Wettstein is named as the owner, from 1786 to 1840 the Breny family. Afterwards a shoemaker, a piano maker and a master carpenter and finally a glazier (1920–1990) used the premises again. In 2001 the property was transferred to the local community of Rapperswil, which subjected the house to a complete renovation, including the original row windows, window columns and gable lucides from 1551 on the north facade and a rococo oven from 1792. A cosmetics institute is now located on the ground floor . From 1572 to 1598 the adjoining house (Engelplatz 14) was owned by knight Hannibal von Bocksberg. Until 1642 the family Oswald, Wagnerei, is certified as the owner, from 1658 the families Fuchs and Wettstein, Gerber and Hafner, and from 1759 to 1845 the watchmaker family Schnider.
- The Zieglerhaus ( Herrenberg / Engelplatz 16) , built in 1559, and the Müseggturm (before 1576) form the end of Engelplatz towards Herrenberg. In 1572 knight Hannibal von Bocksberg is mentioned as resident and owner of the Zieglerhaus, in 1585 the mayor Heinrich Göldlin, from 1604 to 1671 the glass painting Wolfgang Breny and son, then the families Fuchs and Ziegler. In 1782 the wood turner Joseph Anton Helbling took over the property. From 1901 to 1990 the property changed hands four times. Today there is a ladies' salon on the ground floor.
- At the end of Halsgasse , the old town house (Halsgasse 30) of the tailor Hans Hugenmatter was first mentioned in 1607, and in 1632 the house of the bleacher Hans Heinrich Wydmann (Halsgasse 32). Today there is a tea house and a jewelry shop on the premises.
- Already in the 15th century the Gasthaus Quellenhof (Halsgasse 34, formerly Weisses Kreuz ) is mentioned with its baroque paintings. The building was integrated into the city wall, still recognizable today by a slit to the Oberen Bahnhofstrasse and stone balls from the siege of 1656 found during the renovation. It was also used as a hostel and an inn and was granted the right to pint on June 2, 1852 . The name Gasthof Weisses Kreuz was used until around 1873 . The building got its current name Quellenhof from the Stadtbach , over whose confluence with the old town it was built. To the right of the house entrance at Halsgasse 26, the old water tap has been preserved. In 1926 Emil Wild acquired the property and added a dairy shop to the restaurant. Liesel and Eugen Wild continued to run the business and leased today's Quellenhof restaurant . The home-style cuisine offers Swiss specialties and fish dishes from and from Lake Zurich.
- The neighboring Brunacker school building on Zürcherstrasse was built in 1870, and the Sonnenhof shopping center stands at the location of the Neuhof residential building at today's Stadthofplatz.
- See also attractions in Rapperswil
Fountain at Engelplatz
The classicistic Engelplatz fountain in front of the Haus zum Engel was renewed in 1806 and replaced by a new construction in 1857/58 with a broad, oval limestone basin. The heavily constricted foot takes up a tapering fountain column that bears a pine cone over a lobed goblet capital with a cover plate . The two fountain tubes are in the mouth of lion masks in relief. Except for details, it is modeled on the somewhat larger fountain on the fish market square built in 1845.
traffic
The square belongs to the pedestrian zone in the city center and is close to the train station with access to the Zurich S-Bahn and the bus network of the Lake Zurich and Oberland transport companies .
Together with Ochsenrainli -Gasse, Engelplatz over Herrenberg forms the only wheelchair and pram-accessible entrance to the Rapperswil-Jona City Museum , the parish church and Liebfrauenkapelle as well as Rapperswil Castle and Lindenhof .
literature
- Paul Heeb: The siege of the city of Rapperswil in 1656 from the perspective of town clerk Johann Peter Dietrich (1611–1681) . Volume 17 of the series of publications by the Rapperswil City Museum. Published by the Rapperswil City Museum , Rapperswil, 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the center of Johann Jakob Oeri's drawing from 1851, three cartoons and a stone mortar can be seen, protected by bulwarks and fascines . The fire of the Zurich artillery is returned from the bastion at Engelplatz - on the right the Halstor, behind it the Haus zum Alten Sternen and on the left the Halsturm with the houses that form the curtain wall . In the foreground is General Rudolf Werdmüller, in full armor, talking to officers, behind him his servant with his horse. Two sentinels in helmets and cuirass , armed with spears and halberds , flank the guns. Two soldiers bring a wounded comrade to safety, a third brings ammunition. The defoliated tree in the foreground and the roofs covered with snow are portraits of the freezing cold January 1656.
- ↑ a b David Nüscheler: Website Villmergerkriege 1656 and 1712 , History of the Zurich Artillery , Fireworks Society, Zurich 1850, accessed on April 17, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Engelplatz website ( memento of the original from November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 31, 2013.
- ^ Website of the city of Rapperswil-Jona: Culture , accessed on March 31, 2013.
- ^ Website of the city of Rapperswil-Jona: Events ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 31, 2013.
- ^ Website of the Rapperswil-Jona water supply: History of the old Rapperswil fountains ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 17, 2013.
- ^ Website of the city of Rapperswil-Jona: Verkehr , accessed on March 31, 2013.
