Hugenfeld school building
The Hugenfeldschule is a listed school building in Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau . It is located in the west of the old town on Bahnhofstrasse, near the city church of St. Martin . The building, stylistically situated between late baroque and early classicistic , is classified as a cultural asset of regional importance .
history
Like the neighboring Schönauerhof , the Hugenfeld school building stands on the site of the former "old castle", a small castle of the Counts of Rheinfelden, which was built in the 10th or 11th century to secure the crossing of the Rhine . The core of the current building on the west side of Bahnhofstrasse (formerly called Beuggengasse) dates back to the early 16th century. In 1958, during excavations, parts of the medieval wall came to light. The house was the residence of several senior bailiffs, in 1702 an extension was built on the south side that still exists today. The facade was given its current appearance in the 1760s. In 1782 the house came into the possession of the Hug von Hugenfeld family.
The Ortsbürgergemeinde acquired the house in 1858 from the estate of Mr. Francis Xavier Choir of Hugenfeld. She donated it to the community with the condition that the district school be set up in it. The architect Joseph Caspar Jeuch planned the renovation in 1859, which lasted until 1862. In 1865, Robert Moser expanded the southern annex to an L-shaped wing, which was enlarged again in 1912/13. Complete renovations took place in 1957/58 and 1994/95. Today the Hugenfeld school house is used for primary school and for teaching textile works .
Building
The three-storey main building is completed by a steep hipped roof. The street-side facade has a conspicuous corner cuboid and a high plaster base, with a sill cornice closing the ground floor. In six axes in pairs windows have stichbogigen jambs from sandstone disposed. A cornice crowning almost the delicate-looking segmented arched walls of the central portal and its narrow barred side windows together. The two-winged entrance is decorated with a diamond pattern, as are the shutters on the ground floor windows. The L-shaped, also three-storey extension on the south side has similar design elements as the main building, it is completed by a flat hipped roof with the same eaves height as the main building.
During the renovation, Jeuch took over the existing transverse corridors inside and reinforced these beams and wooden pillars. Five late Gothic ornamental portals are placed in the ground floor hall. The most magnificent door walls are on the second floor and have parallel, artistically crossed square bars. In the two eastern corner rooms of the first upper floor of the main building, remnants of the interior from the late 18th century have been preserved.
literature
- Edith Hunziker, Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IX, Rheinfelden district. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-906131-94-8 , pp. 158-161 .
Web links
- Hugenfeldschule in the inventory of historical monuments in the canton of Aargau
- Hugenfeld school building
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '13.4 " N , 7 ° 47' 30.1" E ; CH1903: 626,576 / two hundred sixty-seven thousand and sixty-one