Bocken Estate
The Bocken estate is a baroque estate with a manor house in the Arn southeast of the village of Horgen and is a listed building .
History and art
The Alte Bocken farm , an example of the Zurich half-timbered style , dates back to 1644. The main building of the estate was built between 1681 and 1688 for the Zurich governor Andreas Weyer-Werdmüller. The interiors are with baroque stucco work of Samuel Höscheller and multi Turmöfen equipped 18th century. During the buck war of 1804, the site was one of the main locations. The manor, which had been a spa and bathing establishment since 1771 , was supplemented in 1805 by an inn in the classical style, to which a side wing was added in 1913.
Since 1912, the Bocken estate was the seat of the family of the silk manufacturer Alfred Schwarzenbach, whose wife Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille made the estate a meeting place for high society. The writer and journalist Annemarie Schwarzenbach grew up here .
The estate has served the Credit Suisse bank as a conference center since 1994 . For this purpose, various new buildings were built from 1992 to 1994 and the park was redesigned and equipped with sculptures by Dani Karavan , Beverly Pepper and Ulrich Rückriem . The planned new leasing of the existing farm made regional headlines and heated debates in 2009 and 2010.
literature
- Edith Hunziker, Steffan Biffiger, Thomas Bolt: Aargau, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Thurgau, Zurich, Zug. (Art guide through Switzerland, Volume 1, with CD-Rom). Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2005, ISBN 978-3-90613195-5 .
- Christian Renfer, Joseph Jung: The Bocken country house on Lake Zurich. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 563). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1994, ISBN 978-3-85782-563-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexis Schwarzenbach : The Born. Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille and her family. Scheidegger & Spiess, 2004, ISBN 3-85881-161-0 .
- ↑ Alexis Schwarzenbach: On the threshold of the stranger. The life of Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89910-368-7 .
- ↑ Daniel Stehula: Willi Vögeli looks black for the farm on Bocken ( Memento of 28 March 2014 Internet Archive ), in: Tages-Anzeiger , April 19 of 2009.