Guild house to the hoe

Haus "zur Haue" on Limmatquai, left the south facade of the town hall (2008)

The Zunfthaus zur Haue am Limmatquai is the assembly house (guild house) of the Zunft zum Kämbel and is one of the historically valuable buildings in the City Hall district in Zurich .

history

The first drinking room of the Zunft zum Kämbel was located near the town hall, but like other guilds in Zurich, it can no longer be clearly identified. What is certain is that the guild acquired the "Haus zum Kämbel" near the Münsterhof in 1487 .

Originally there were three independent houses on the site of today's town house “zur Haue”: the upper and lower “Wetzwilerhus”, first mentioned in 1373, and the “Ropoltzhus”; all three houses were converted into one building complex in later years. In 1358 the knight Götz Mülner sold his sovereign rights, which had been granted by Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria as an imperial fief, to the city of Zurich. The newly acquired estates were subordinated as the Inner Bailiwick to a senior bailiff who had his official seat in the house at Haue.

In 1442 the property came into the possession of the salt people and has been known since 1450 as "Salzlütenhus", "Houw" or "Salzhouw". The term "Houw" (pick) is borrowed from the emblem of the salt people who hit the salt with their pick . The houses in the immediate vicinity of the town hall were among the most sought-after private houses; the town hall was not only the political but also the economic center of the city.

In 1532 the cloth merchant Konrad Rollenbutz acquired the property and passed it on to his two sons. Since the second half of the 16th century, the "Haue" had been in the possession of Salomon Hirzel-Rollenbutz (1544–1605), who bequeathed the house to his son, Mayor Salomon Hirzel (1580–1652). A memorial plaque and the deer on the roof gable remind of that time.

Murer plan, excerpt

The house to the left of the Zunfthaus zum Rüden can be seen on the Murer map from 1576 . The Reichsstrasse ran along the Limmat under the arcades .

In 1781 the Hirzel family sold the house to Rudolf Rordorf-Sprüngli, who owned it until it was bought by the grocer August Beckert in 1878. He had the house rebuilt, the facade provided with stucco cornices and painted ornaments and the Gothic windows on the upper floors changed. His nephew, Albert Beckert-Irniger, arranged for the original state of the building to be restored with the distinctive stepped gables .

On May 31, 1956 - 150 years after its dissolution - the newly founded company zum Kämbel acquired the property. The guild hall on the first floor was designed in 1979 by the architect Armin Meili; A wine bar has been set up on the ground floor since 1980.