Feusis garden
The Feusisgarten is a former health resort in Feusisberg in the Ausserschwyz . It is located on a hill outside the village with a view over Lake Zurich and dates from the heyday of Feusisberg as a health and whey health resort in the 19th century. Today the building houses a restaurant.
history
The Feusisgarten was built by Anton Feusi in 1847/1848 after the remote and hard-to-reach scattered settlement Feusisberg received a new road connection in the 1860s and flourished as a health and whey health resort . In 1893 the hermit Augustin Oechslin bought the Kurhaus. In a newspaper article from this period it says: “The lovely Feusisberg with its high church tower, the 'Feusisgarten' and 'Zur frohe Aussicht', has two guesthouses, just opposite the Ufenau over the edge of the forest on the slopes of the Etzel . The extensive former establishment counted up to 60 Kuranten (...) this summer. "
In 1897 J. Truttmann-Reding, formerly host of the Grütli on Seelisberg , bought the Feusis garden. Several postcards of the Feusis garden in Truttmann-Reding are known from the following period. In 1913 the building burned down and was replaced by the current owner, Kränzlin. After the end of the First World War , the spa business was no longer profitable and the property was acquired by the health insurance companies of the Horgen and Meilen districts , who used the building as a rest home.
In 1978 the Wollerau Corporation acquired the Feusis Garden. A restaurant was operated there in the following decades. In 2019, the corporation sold the property under building rights to an investor who wants to build retirement homes. The Feusisgarten is not a listed building . A “community of interests Pro Feusisgarten” was founded with the aim of placing the Feusisgarten under protection. An expert opinion commissioned by this IG came to the conclusion that the Feusis Garden is of great architectural importance and is worthy of protection.
description
Construction from 1847/1848
The original inn was expanded into a spa hotel in the following years and at the end of the 19th century had a pump room , garden and its own shooting range . The hotel consisted of two assembled three-storey houses with large wooden balconies on the first floor. The gable facade of the eastern house with a gable roof faced the street. The western house under Kehrfirst was set back slightly to the north.
Construction from 1913
It is a three-story building with Heimatstil forms . The ground floor is bricked, the upper floors are shingled . The main facade is preceded by a two-storey extension with a flat roof, which is now walled up and provided with modern windows. The simply designed house is covered by a mighty hipped mansard roof , which has a three-axis curved dwarf roof on the main facade and two side dormers with a rounded arch.
Personalities
In 1947/1948, the German writers Oda Schaefer and Horst Lange stayed in the Feusisgarten.
The Swiss song composer and painter Artur Beul painted a picture in 1979 that shows the terrace of the Feusisgarten with a view of Lake Zurich.
Picture gallery
Postcard, 1902
Postcard, 1903
Postcard, 1907
Aerial photo between 1918 and 1937
Aerial photo, 1957
Feusisgarten, 2014
Feusisgarten, 2019
Artur Beul , Feusisgarten, 1979
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literature
- Anja Buschow Oechslin: The art monuments of the canton Schwyz. New edition Volume IV, District Höfe. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-906131-93-1 . (= Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 118.)
- Anja Buschow Oechslin: The “tourist view” opens up to the summit of the Etzel. Announcements of the historical association of the canton Schwyz, No. 100 (2008). PDF , accessed on January 28, 2020
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anja Buschow Oechslin: The "tourist view" opens up the summit of the Etzel. Announcements of the historical association of the canton Schwyz, No. 100 (2008). PDF , accessed on January 23, 2020
- ↑ Swiss Hotel Review = Revue suisse des hotels, 6 (1897), issue 20.
- ↑ a b c Anja Buschow Oechslin: The art monuments of the canton Schwyz. New edition Volume IV, The District Courts. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-906131-93-1 .
- ^ Korporation Wollerau gives the green light for retirement home. In: Höfner Volksblatt , April 29, 2019.
- ↑ IG Pro Feusisgarten defends itself against the «Feusisgärtli project». In: Höfner Volksblatt, November 15, 2019.
- ↑ Oda Schaefer: The luminous festivals over grief / memories. Munich 1977.
- ^ Artur Beul: Landscape Pictures . Landscape paintings by Artur Beul (mixed gouache and watercolor). Created between 1967 and 1980. In: Official website of Artur Beul. Ralph Aebi, accessed February 13, 2020 .