House in the rock bottom
The house Im Felsengrund is in Zollikon near Zurich at Oberdorfstrasse 12/14. It was built by wine growers in 1528, making it one of the oldest houses in the village. The double dwelling is listed in the inventory of art and cultural-historical protection objects of municipal importance. The name comes from the Molasse rock head on which the house was built.
construction
As a dendrochronological study from 1990 shows, the timber was felled in the winter months of 1526/1527 and 1527/1528 in the Zolliker forest. The house was built in 1528 and initially had an open half-hip roof, as was common on the lower Lake of Zurich until the 16th century . Around the middle of the 17th century it was converted into a timber frame house. It received a steeper, bent gable roof and a brick smoke outlet. Because the residents of the upper part of the house were simple craftsmen who could not afford any major structural changes, the rural furnishings were largely retained.
The lower part of the house, on the other hand, and the economic wing in the middle, in which there was a sidewalk, have been redesigned several times since the 19th century, whereby the character of the former wine-growing house was lost. In 1843 a bakery and later a plumbing shop were set up. Another apartment was built above and the frame work was replaced by a massive wall. The large tree garden, which stretched south over an area of one hectare to the foot of the Buchholz hill, fell victim to the construction of the mountain road in 1932.
history
The house "Im Felsengrund" is one of the 71 Zolliker houses whose history can be traced back to 1547 thanks to the so-called "Schwendenhaurodel". At that time, 71 Zolliker homeowners bought the piece of land "Schwendenhau" north of Forchstrasse, which took its name from the former Mayor of Zurich Konrad Schwend.
The house was probably built by a representative of the Falk family, who have lived in neighboring Hinterdorf since 1519. After three Falk generations, the house came into the possession of Melchior Bleuler, clerk for the Küsnachter Obervogt in Zollikon in 1610 . Bleuler's heirs sold the estate to Konrad Leemann von Hirslanden in 1704 . In 1787 Hans Konrad Leemann sold the house and farm to his son-in-law Johannes Kienast and for the next 130 years it remained in the possession of various representatives of the Zolliker family Kienast.
In 1828 the district judge and later mayor Heinrich Hotz acquired the barn and the tree garden on the mountain side. In 1843 he built a new building in place of the barn, which housed the first Zollikon secondary school from 1873 to 1900 (today Oberdorfstrasse 16). This house is also called "Felsengrund".
In 1917 the house was purchased by the painter Fritz Boscovits (1871–1965), who lived there until his death. Boscovits put the Kienast coat of arms and the inscription «1517 - 1917» on the north side, but these have no historical relevance.
The house then came into the possession of the municipality of Zollikon. The local museum has been housed there since June 1990.
Web links
literature
- Richard Humm: From Gstad to Sennhof , Zollikon 1991
- Thomas Schärli: The house in Felsengrund in "Zolliker Jahrheft", 1988
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Heer: Our Zollikon; P. 28
- ↑ Fritz Boscovits on Sikart