Haltli (Mollis)
The Haltli house in Mollis is a late Baroque country estate at the transition to classicism . The merchant and landowner Conrad Schindler (1757–1841) had the bourgeois country house built in 1782–1784 according to his own plans. Alongside the Freuler Palace in Näfels, it is the most important secular building in the canton.
Exterior
The three-story country house with a mighty hipped roof thrones in a lofty position above the valley. The facade of the country house on the valley side is reminiscent of representative Baroque architecture. The building is divided into three axes by Corinthian and Ionic sandstone pilasters. The portal and the crowning triangular gable with the coat of arms of the Schindler family above the central axis are splendidly designed . On the mountain side, the house, flanked by lively outbuildings, forms a stately courtyard with a fountain.
Interior
The salon on the first floor with floral wallpaper the Parisian factory Réveillon and with excellent Rococo - stucco embellished. In addition to ornamental decorations, allegories of the four seasons are also executed in stucco. A faience tower stove allegorically depicts winter. The sumptuous console table in Louis-seize style is particularly valuable .
On the third floor, the hall, the largest room in the estate, is also equipped with ornamental and figurative stucco. The space is structured by Ionic pilasters and friezes . Two black marble corner fireplaces add visual contrasts to the light stucco.
literature
- Jürg Davatz: Mollis . Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Basel 1976.
Coordinates: 47 ° 5 '55.3 " N , 9 ° 4' 30.5" E ; CH1903: 724,229 / 217705