Pfyfferhus

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Pfyfferhus, October 2011

The Pfyfferhus (also Pfyfferhaus and Pfyfferhuus ) was a building in Wettingen that had been erected by the Federal Postal Administration (Bahnhofstrasse 1). A legally binding demolition permit had been in place since July 2011. In August 2013 it was demolished because it was not yet entered in the monument protection list, although there were several citizen and citizen group protests.

The old post office building on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Seminarstrasse is opposite the turning point of the Wettingen railway station . A residential and commercial building was built on the site in 2016/2017, the design of which corresponds to the development in the Etzelmatt district .

history

Pfyfferhus, spring 2012
Demolition, August 2013

The house was built in 1905 on behalf of the “Sternen” landlady Margrit Schweri and set up as a post and telegraph station. Schweri was the first post holder there until 1908. On October 1, 1923, the former seminar director of the Wettingen Monastery , Ivo Pfyffer, signed the purchase contract with Margarita Schweri-Ochsner. The lease with the Post was taken over at the same time and extended from March 1, 1925 to March 31, 1933. In 1934 it was converted into a pharmacy for his son, the pharmacist Ivo August Pfyffer , from which it took its name. The pharmacy opened on May 1, 1935 and closed forever on May 1, 1975. In March 1933, the post office had moved to new premises directly opposite the train station . This building was significantly expanded to the west in 1967 and is still in operation. In the last 30 years of the Pfyfferhus' a frame shop was located there.

Pfyfferhus, balcony with post horn

The first post office in Wettingen was located in the so-called "Wyrsch-Haus" on Klosterstrasse, better known as the "Gasthaus zum Alten Löwen" opposite the Wettingen monastery church , since February 1, 1871 . Initially, this was just a so-called «mailbox». From November 1, 1845, it was first in the village and on July 31, 1849, it was given the status of the Federal Filing . The items were delivered daily from Baden; from 1855 two deliveries were made daily. The delivery area was mainly concentrated in the former monastery district, where the game spinning and weaving mill was located and where its workers lived. There were also a few addresses beyond the Zurich – Baden railway line and the Neuenhof municipal ban . In 1890 the post office became a Post Office III. Upgraded to class , in 1912, then already at the new location, she is classified as a post office. The strong expansion of the settlement area of ​​Wettingen increased the work at the post office considerably. While 13,105 items of mail were posted at the Wettingen 1 post office in 1870 , this was 39,460 in 1900.

meaning

The townscape around the turntable, i.e. the southern end of the station, was largely shaped by the Pfyfferhus. The first post office building with its subtle Art Nouveau elements stood for the "self-confident departure of bourgeois entrepreneurship and public infrastructure into the 20th century". It represented an urban building block in an ensemble of several houses built in the same era in the area of ​​the old connecting road between the village center and the monastery and stood for the quality awareness of the builders and the approving authorities at the time. According to Egloff, the Pfyfferhus was "the most beautiful and modern house in Wettingen at that time".

literature

  • Swiss Cultural Assets , Volume 7
  • Brief inventory of the cantonal monument preservation

Web links

Commons : Altes Postamt (Wettingen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Limmattaler Zeitung of July 22, 2013
  2. ↑ Heimatschutz Aargau: Former post office in Wettingen. Critical report with an aerial photo of the former state
  3. ↑ Wettingen photo archive
  4. ↑ Wettingen photo archive
  5. ^ Eugen Egloff: Kleine Postgeschichte von Wettingen , pp. 4-7 in the database of the PTT archive
  6. ↑ Traffic history Wettingen-1 in the database of the PTT archive
  7. ↑ Traffic statistics PTT Wettingen 1, Post-199 A0006 in the database of the PTT archive
  8. ↑ Minutes of the residents' council meeting on November 10, 2011, page 319. (PDF; 193 kB)
  9. ↑ Eugen Egloff in a letter on November 30, 1952 to Mr. A. Bächli, Cantonal Post Director in Aarau. in the database of the PTT archive

Coordinates: 47 ° 27 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 4"  E ; CH1903:  666292  /  two hundred and fifty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven