Lohnhof

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Panorama seen from Barfüsserplatz. Kohlberg, Lohnhof, Leonhardskirche
Panorama view from Barfüsserplatz to the Lohnhof
Lohnhof, view from the southwest with a sculpture of George by Carl Nathan Burkhardt

The Lohnhof is a historic building complex in Basel . It is located at the Leonhardskirche am Kohlenberg in the old town of Grossbasel .

The then nameless building was built in 1206 as a canon monastery of the Augustinian order . A first mention comes from the year 1668. The head of the urban construction industry paid the wages to the craftsmen, hence the name. The previous building of the Lohnhof and the Leonhardskirche was a hall church , which was probably built in the 11th century. There was also a monastery there in the 12th century, of which only the cemetery hall remained.

In 1821 the canton police moved into the Lohnhof. Since many prisons in the towers of the city wall were abandoned, a new solution had to be found. Amadeus Merian designed a prison in the Lohnhof, which was given its purpose in 1835. The project had previously failed due to resistance from church circles, as they did not want a prison right next to the church. In 1839 Merian, who in the meantime had taken over the post of town builder, also had the idea of ​​accommodating the police headquarters in the Lohnhof. That happened five years later, and the architect also directed the renovation and expansion in 1853.

In 1995 the Waaghof was built and the prison relocated there. Since then, the Lohnhof has housed the “Au Violon” ​​hotel (the name is an allusion to the former prison), a small theater, a jazz club and a musical instrument museum. The latter building comes from the architectural firm Morger & Degelo . Today there is a day care center in the gatehouse.

Since 2017 the exhibition Basel, 1070–1358 AD: Medieval City Wall Tower , in which researchers reconstructed the effects of the great Basel earthquake of 1356 , has been located here in a newly designed local archaeological information center . The damage caused by the quake is still visible today in the corner tower of the Lohnhof as part of the former city wall.

Web links

Commons : Lohnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Badische Zeitung : Archaeologists reconstruct the severe earthquake of 1356 . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on November 5, 2017]).

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '17 "  N , 7 ° 35' 15.8"  E ; CH1903:  611,223  /  two hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-three