Lindengut Museum

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Museum Lindengut Winterthur (garden side)

The Lindengut Museum is the local museum of the city of Winterthur . It shows the home decor of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

building

The Lindengut Museum is located in an English park , which was popularly known as the "Bird Park" because of the aviary near the former garden house in the middle of the park. The architect of the complex is not known, but it could be the Baden-Baden court master builder Franz Ignaz Kramer , who at the time was staying in Winterthur at the invitation of Clais and took part in the competition for the renovation of the town hall .

The villa, built as a classicist country house, was completed in 1787 and carried Switzerland's first lightning rod on its roof . The interior of the building is decorated with wall paintings and painted panels . There are six tiled stoves in the rooms, five of which come from Winterthur. The villa, the gardener's house and the coachman's house are under cantonal monument protection.

history

The ensemble with villa, wash house and greenhouse (today gardener's house with apartment) and wood and side shed (today coach house) was built by Johann Sebastian Clais in 1787 and was initially called "Claisengut". At that time it was located as a country estate outside the city wall and was built between the property "zum Palmengarten" (built around 1740/1750, demolished) and "zur Nursery" (built 1771/1772). After the death of Johann Sebastian Clais, the villa was taken over by his son Carl . He bought the neighboring baroque house “Lindengüetli” in addition to the “Lindengut”, giving the villa “Lindengut” its current name. The original "Lindengüetli" was then still part of the ensemble; in 1931 it was torn down.

A severe economic crisis in the family forced Carl von Clais in 1848 to sell the "Lindengut" under value to the manufacturer Ludwig Greuter-Reinhart from Islikon, who then lived here for the next 20 years. He was followed by his daughter Lydia Ziegler-Greuter, before the plant came into the possession of her son Emil Ziegler-Egg after her death in 1867 . He lived in the "Lindengut" until 1884 and then sold it to his daughter Helene and her husband Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler . He rebuilt the interior of the villa in the neo-renaissance style . He also had the garden redesigned by the garden architect Evariste Mertens and a tennis court was laid out near Platanenstrasse (today General-Guisan-Strasse), which is no longer preserved today. Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler lived in the villa until his death in 1913, after which Helene Sulzer-Ziegler was the sole owner of the linden estate until her death in 1941.

The “Lindengut” was bought by the Ziegler heirs in 1946 for CHF 527,000 and was initially used as a temporary measure for the police and tax office. After an exterior renovation of almost CHF 500,000, approved by the public in 1952, which also included some of Sulzer's interior alterations, the city made the "Lindengut" available to the historical and antiquarian association that had existed since 1874. He opened the Lindengut Museum as a local museum there in 1956, one of the driving forces behind this was the then club president and local historian Werner Ganz . The city continues to use the “Lindengut” as a wedding venue.

museum

The museum shows changing exhibitions on the history of Winterthur and the home decor of the 18th and early 19th centuries. On permanent display are, among other things, a painted city model of Winterthur in 1808 and the astronomical dial of the former Winterthur clock tower above the cage gate with the oldest preserved astrolabe gear , made in 1529 by the Winterthur clockmaker Laurentius Liechti . In the coach house there is a toy collection that can be visited separately. With the 2018 season, the museum has realigned itself under the name museum create .

literature

Web links

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


Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '0.6 "  N , 8 ° 44' 5.9"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-seven thousand six hundred seventy-three  /  261853