Herosé pen
The Herosé-Stift (formerly called Herzoggut ) is a classicist building in Aarau . It is on Bachstrasse in the Gönhard district south of the train station . The listed building was built between 1817 and 1819 according to plans by Hans Caspar Escher and is now part of an old people's home .
history
The client was Johannes Herzog , textile industrialist and most powerful politician in the founding years of the canton of Aargau . In 1811 he commissioned the famous German architect Friedrich Weinbrenner to plan a representative villa, but rejected his design because the fee was too high. Five years later, Hans Caspar Escher was finally awarded the contract. The building was built between 1817 and 1819 under the direction of the cantonal master builder Johann Schneider. Herzog's grandson, General Hans Herzog , also lived in the building .
The city acquired the Herzog-Gut in 1917 and set up a retirement home there, the Herosé-Stift (named after Federal Councilor Friedrich Frey-Herosé ). The extensive area with textile factories, factory canals and workers' houses was demolished after 1950 and re-used. In 1977 a modern extension was built in the north-western part of the property.
building
The building is located in the middle of a small park next to the Stadtbach . It presents itself as a three-storey, strictly structured structure with a rather flat hipped roof . The ground floor stands out from the superstructure as a base . A broad central projecting protrudes from the front with a triangular gable above it. Eight columns frame the main entrance and support the balcony, which takes up the entire width of the central projectile.
literature
- Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I, districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948, p. 128-131 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '20.3 " N , 8 ° 3' 11.4" E ; CH1903: 646400 / two hundred and forty-eight thousand eight hundred sixty-four