House to Salmen

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House to Salmen

The Haus zum Salmen is a listed building in Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau . The building, which was built in the late 18th century, is located in the northern part of the old town on Marktgasse, in the immediate vicinity of the town hall . For over two centuries the building served as a restaurant; In 1799 it was the founding place of the Salmenbräu brewery . The city library has been housed there since 2015.

history

In 1739, Oberamtmann Johann Bürgin combined three buildings to form the current property. The easternmost previous building was the seat of the Zunft zum Bock. In 1799, the pig dealer Franz Joseph Dietschy bought the building complex including the associated tavern and brewing rights . He gave it the name “Zum Salmen”, had a new roof built and the facade on Marktgasse unified. Three vaulted cellars were built by 1805 , and a two-story brewery was added to the rear . Around 1840 Dietschy had a terrace built along the Rhine . In 1843 his descendants expanded the business to include additional production buildings. After the Salmenbräu brewery had moved into a new production facility west of the old town, a festival and concert hall was built behind the inn in 1888/89 according to plans by Franz Habich . In 1898 Josef Gutbrod decorated the street facade with paintings.

The ballroom, which was enlarged in 1930, was demolished in 1989/90, and the area that became vacant was rebuilt in 1991. The restaurant was in operation until 2012 and then stood empty for a few months. In June 2013, the city of Rheinfelden bought the building for 1.1 million francs to accommodate the city library, which was suffering from a lack of space. The library opened in the new premises on March 8, 2015.

Building

The three-storey building with a folded gable roof covered with the dormer windows is loaded. The facade facing Marktgasse has a dark red frame on the ground floor. By Gesimsgurte are deducted from this, the two upper floors with colorful neo decorated wood paintings. Remains narrow late Gothic windows have been preserved on the first floor over the middle two openings in the form of blind tracery -Kielbögen. These are occupied with the coats of arms of the four forest cities (Rheinfelden, Laufenburg , Säckingen and Waldshut ). The house sign painted in between shows a soaring ibex in profile, wrapped in a banderole with the inscription “Zunft zum Bock”. On both sides of the central pair of axes, there are inscriptions and brew stars decorated with salmon .

literature

Web links

Commons : Haus zum Salmen (Rheinfelden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aargau industrial culture : Chronicle of Salmenbräu. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ There is more space for the city library in «Salmen». Aargauer Zeitung , June 20, 2013, accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ 19,000 media get new domicile. Badische Zeitung , February 27, 2015, accessed on May 28, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '19.4 "  N , 7 ° 47' 37.3"  E ; CH1903:  626726  /  two hundred sixty-seven thousand two hundred and forty-eight