Hotel ox

View from 1875

The Hotel Ochsen is a former hotel in Baden in the canton of Aargau . It is located on Bäderstrasse in the spa district and is a cultural asset of regional importance .

building

The late Gothic core of the three-part building complex is a three-storey building with a wide-spanned and deep hipped roof . While the lower part is bricked, the upper floors are made of plastered half-timbering . The ground floor was decorated with a joint cut around 1900 . It has a dainty classicist pillar portal from around 1850. A mask console and a lion head sculpture on the south side of the house were taken from older parts of the house. Numerous structural interventions have significantly changed the interior of the building. The "ox Salon" on the first floor has late Gothic columns for the subdivision of segmentbogigen window niches, the walls are decorated with wood paneling covered. In the hall there is a Louis-Seize stove, the tiles of which are decorated with plant motifs.

history

Archaeological investigations carried out from 2010 to 2012 provided evidence of the existence of a bathhouse from the 13th or early 14th century. The inn "Zum Roten Ochsen" was first mentioned at the end of the 14th century. In 1569 a major fire broke out, which destroyed both this inn and the neighboring bear . The new building erected afterwards has been preserved in the core of the current building. Over the centuries the ox grew out of three neighboring, closely spaced houses. The monument protection granted in 1967 for the entire building complex was limited in 1989 to the late Gothic core building, which however remains integrally protected. The building has been vacant since the hotel was closed in 2004.

There were plans to demolish the Bären, Ochsen and Verenahof hotels and replace them with a thermal bath. The project met with strong resistance and ultimately failed in 2005. A different concept has been pursued since 2009: the hotels mentioned are to be connected to each other inside and converted into a rehabilitation clinic with 78 rooms, with the listed parts being retained. Implementation of the project planned by Mario Botta is scheduled to begin in 2017.

Dépendance

The Dépendance of the Hotel Ochsen is on the opposite side of the street. The slender neo-classical building with a gently sloping hipped roof was built in 1845 by Joseph Caspar Jeuch , on the site of the “Little Ox”, first mentioned in 1518. The main facade of the two-storey, plastered structure has five axes and is framed by two corner projections . Stylized palmette friezes in the finely profiled cornice , reliefs in the parapet areas of the corner projections and medallions in the arches of the central section provide additional accentuation . The building, which has been listed since 1967, was renovated in 2010 and has been used for office purposes ever since.

literature

Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Volume VI, District of Baden I. Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 1976, ISBN 3-7643-0782-X , p. 307-309 .

Web links

Commons : Hotel Ochsen - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Andrea Schaer: The current excavations in the Baden spa district . In: Baden New Years Papers . tape 86 . here + now , Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-03919-177-2 , p. 170-171 .
↑ project. thermalbaden.ch, 2017, accessed on June 25, 2017 .

47.48062 8.3131Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 50 " N , 8 ° 18 ′ 47" E ; CH1903: 665 913 / two hundred and fifty-nine thousand two hundred and thirty-nine

[1] Andrea Schaer: The current excavations in the Baden spa district . In: Baden New Years Papers . tape 86 . here + now , Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-03919-177-2 , p. 170-171 .

[2] project. thermalbaden.ch, 2017, accessed on June 25, 2017 .