House to the Warteck
| House to the Warteck | |
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 House to the Warteck |
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| place | Winterthur |
| builder | Leonhard Zeugheer |
| Architectural style | Neo-renaissance |
| Construction year | 1861 |
| Coordinates | 697 399 / 261 868 |
The Haus zum Warteck is a residential and commercial building in the old town of Winterthur . The city palace, built in the neo-renaissance style, is listed by the federal government in the list of cultural assets of national importance .
history
A defensive tower once stood on the site of today's Warteckhaus, which was located directly next to the Nägelitor . To the east of the tower was a granary of the former Neumarkt Hospital (today the Neumarkt retirement center of the same name is located there ), which last served as a city prison from 1833 to 1854 before it moved to the newly built district building on Neumarkt. The city then put the building up for sale in 1855, whereupon the businessman Jakob Theodor Ziegler-Bühler bought it.
Bühler was a partner in the textile company Rieter, Ziegler & Cie , which produced blue printing blankets . He had the Kornhaus demolished and in its place the Haus zum Warteck built by the renowned Zurich architect Leonhard Zeugheer . The textile company moved into the first two floors of the representative building erected between 1857 and 1861, while the two upper floors were used for residential purposes by the Zeugheer family. After the textile company moved out, the house became the headquarters of the Swiss Accident Insurance Corporation , which had not been founded long before and was last known as Winterthur Insurance. The insurance company moved into the district building six years later, where the Winterthur District Court is now based. After they moved out, the building was bought by Eduard Bühler-Egg , who used the lower floors for his company and rented out the upper floors.
In 1988, Winterthur Insurance bought its former headquarters again and had it restored in 1994 and the exterior painted true to the original. The insurance company then used the second floor of the Warteckhaus for a few years for representative purposes. Today, the house is mainly home to residential space and law firms as well as the Fehlmann family foundation .
architecture
The prestigious building was designed by the architect Leonhard Zeugheer , who is also responsible for other buildings in Winterthur, such as the nearby Oskar Reinhart Museum , which was built as a boys' high school and library at the time. A mezzanine highlighted by horizontal joints is located above the square ground floor of the house facing the Warteck . Above is the piano nobile , the windows of which are alternately decorated with Italianized triangular and tail gables . Above the top floor there is a flat, decorated entablature . Inside the building there is a small inner courtyard with a fountain, which underlines the architecture as a city palace. The seven-axis front is marked by a large arched entrance, while the building has three window axes on the side.
Web links
- House Warteck, Stadthausstrasse 39 in Winterthur Glossary.
- "Zum Warteck": Where the Nägelitürliturm once stood in the Winterthurer Stadtanzeiger on September 15, 2009.