Fricktaler Museum

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Haus zur Sonne (museum building)

The Fricktaler Museum is a historically oriented regional museum in Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau . It deals with the history of the city of Rheinfelden and the Fricktal region . Since 1934 the museum has been housed in the "Haus zur Sonne" on Marktgasse, next to the town hall . The collection is classified as a cultural asset of regional importance .

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Emil Wieland and pastor Carl Schröter founded an antiquity commission in 1878, which two years later began collecting objects on the church and civil-domestic life of Rheinfeld. In 1883 the community took over the collection and exhibited it in the Hugenfeld school building . Soon there was a lack of space, so that from 1913 the collection could be seen in the newly furnished rooms in the town hall . Due to numerous archaeological finds, there was soon not enough space here either. In 1928, the heirs of brewery director Carl Habich-Dietschy donated the neighboring "Haus zur Sonne" to the community on condition that a local museum be set up in it. After some renovations, the exhibition was opened in 1934. While the collection and the museum building are owned by the local community , the museum is financed by the local community .

The permanent exhibition shows exhibits related to the history of the city and the Fricktal. These include archaeological finds, medieval crafts and professions that no longer exist. Most of the furnishings in the house date from the 19th century. City models and watercolors trace the history of Rheinfeld. The Hugenfeld room is adorned with 18th century tapestries. Other focal points of the collection are objects of sacred art and fishing as well as a music cabinet. Special exhibitions and cultural events are held regularly.

House to the sun

History of construction and use

In 1422 an inn "zur Sonne" was first mentioned in a document. In 1656 Joseph Bröchin bought the building, which had become dilapidated , and had it repaired, which almost corresponded to a new building. The cross-vaulted cellar and the roof construction date from this time . The operation of the tavern there was stopped in 1725 and resumed in 1773. Franz Joseph Dietschy , founder of the Salmenbräu brewery located in the neighboring Haus zum Salmen , bought the property in 1840 in order to use the back yard as a parking space for the wagons and the horse stables. In 1858 his son Alois closed the inn for good.

In 1884 the Haus zur Sonne was converted into a stately home, five years later a two-storey wing with a roof terrace was built to the rear of the Rhine . In 1894, the ground floor room facing the street was expanded into an "old German room". In 1933 Otto Plattner decorated the street front with wall paintings (removed again in 1978). From 1961 to 1964, the interior of the house was renovated in stages; in 1989 the wing on the Rhine side was demolished.

Building

The four-story building with a gable roof has a representative, sober-looking facade in the classical style facing Marktgasse . House elements and cornice stand out from the light plaster with their brick-red coloring. The ground floor is structured with pilasters that close horizontally with a strongly profiled entablature . The cross-frame windows on the upper floors are arranged in four axes and have carefully crafted stone walls. The gilded tavern sign depicts a sun surrounded by rocailles . A row of consoles in the courtyard entrance closes off the ashlar plastering of the walls; plastered ceiling beams stretch over it. The museum's lapidarium can be found in the open arcades on the ground floor and in the inner courtyard .

Inside there is a two-aisled vaulted cellar under the main wing; it is divided into three parts by two pillars made of red sandstone . From the courtyard passage, a corridor leads through the center of the house to a spacious staircase on the first floor. The remaining floors are accessed by a staircase in the western part. A valuable coffered ceiling from 1627, consisting of square coffers with carved profile frames and inlays, is attached over the front part of the ground floor room facing the street . In addition, four carved lion heads are fitted into the serrated cornice above the wall beam. The roof beams, a rafter construction from 1658/59, have been preserved in their original state.

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  1. ↑ The historical Rheinfelden Collection - the site of today's collection. Fricktaler Museum, accessed on May 23, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Sponsorship. Fricktaler Museum, accessed on May 23, 2015 .
  3. ↑ permanent exhibition. Fricktaler Museum, accessed on May 23, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '19.5 "  N , 7 ° 47' 36.6"  E ; CH1903:  626,712  /  two hundred sixty-seven thousand two hundred fifty-one