Schlossberg House (Rapperswil)

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Haus Schlossberg, view from the back alley
View from the port area to the Curti-Haus , Haus Schlossberg in the background, on the right the Hotel Schwanen

The home Schlossberg is a community center in Curtiplatz at the west end of the historic old town of Rapperswil , a district of the Swiss municipality Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen .

Building history

The Schlossberg house at the southern end of Hintergasse is said to date back to the 16th or 17th century, but it could also be much older. In 1665, the silk merchant Giacomo Maria Curti, who came from Milan, was granted civil rights in the city of Rapperswil and acquired the property at Fischmarktplatz  9, which is now the train station pharmacy. In 1768 the Schlossberg family was transferred from the silk merchant Anton Brentona to the Curti family.

  • Entrance area

  • Coat of arms above the main entrance

  • Lower portal

  • View from the castle hill

The building is located at the junction between the city ​​fortifications in the west of the old town , the monastery district and the facilities in the port area on Lake Zurich , which existed until the 1830s . In 1919 the Curti family also acquired the adjoining property on the Schlossberg , which is why the building is usually called Upper Curti House and the neighboring building Lower Curti House .

literature

  • Peter Röllin: Rapperswil-Jona cultural building set: 36 museums without a roof . Rapperswil-Jona 2005, ISBN 3-033-00478-4 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Schlossberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The building history does not seem to have survived.

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '35.5 "  N , 8 ° 48' 51.2"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and four thousand one hundred and seventy-six  /  231536