Pfrundhäuser (Rapperswil)

Pfrundhäuser on Herrenberg in Rapperswil, on the left the Bubikerhaus and the Rapperswil-Jona City Museum in the background

View from the Herrenberg Primary School

As Pfrundhäuser be in the old town of Rapperswil , a district of the Swiss municipality Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen , the two parts of the building of the property Herrenberg 51, 53, 55 and refers to the 57th

location

The property is located at the upper end of the Herrenberg in Rapperswil, west of Engelplatz and opposite the parish church .

Building history

The building complex consists of two adjoining buildings, both of which are half-timbered buildings with a gable roof . There is a small fountain on Herrenberg-Gasse. The eastern part of the Herrenberg 51 to 55 building, like the adjoining building, has three floors - the two upper floors are designed with red-colored half-timbering, the wooden beams of the western part of the building are gray. The year 1681 at the entrance with house number 51 indicates the year it was built, the western part of the property is said to date back to the 16th century.