Town Hall (Bremgarten)
The town hall is the seat of the city administration of Bremgarten in Switzerland . It is located on Rathausgasse on the western edge of the upper town, directly above the steep slope to the lower town. The classicist building that exists today was built in 1817/19 in place of the previous building from the late Middle Ages. The town hall also houses the district office, the district court and the land registry of the Bremgarten district .
history
Negotiations of the city council and the court took place at the latest from 1243 in the house of the Schultheissen . In 1429 the first written mention of an actual town hall as “stuba magna” took place. A renovation of the late Gothic building is documented for the years 1517 to 1519 . Apart from a new Renaissance portal around 1650, the town hall remained largely unchanged in the centuries that followed.
In 1812 the city gave the order to design a new building on the same site. However, the design by master builder Rey from Muri seemed too expensive, which is why the council entrusted Fidel Leimbacher from Sins with the further planning. Construction work began in the spring of 1817 under Leimbacher's supervision and was completed two years later. In 1912 the building was increased by one floor.
Due to a lack of space, the town hall had to be enlarged again in 1973. For this purpose, two town houses on the northeast side were torn down and replaced with an extension, which is stylistically adapted to the actual town hall.
building
The Classicist townhouse towers over its neighboring buildings significantly and, with its representative acting gable front faces a small square. The ground floor consists of an arched structure and stands out clearly from the upper floors. The original proportions were lost with the addition of storeys in accordance with the style, but this could be softened by the construction of a gently sloping hipped roof instead of the previous gable roof . A curved attic gable emphasizes the protruding central projection . The windows on the ground floor have Empire grilles with gilded swirl rosettes . The only structural remnant of the old town hall is the former town archive in a domed vault on the ground floor; it is used today as a meeting room.
Three rooms on the first floor are of art historical interest. The courtroom - the former council chamber - is held in the Empire style and has relief ornate paneling and a with landscapes and floral motifs painted blue cupola from the year 1777. With Louis XVI -Täfern adorned the court registry. The court president's room is decorated with panels and hand-printed Rixheim wallpapers from 1819; they are kept in the style of the Swiss little masters and show folk shepherd scenes in idealized landscapes.
literature
- Peter Felder: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IV, Bremgarten district. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1967, ISBN 3-906131-07-6 , p. 115-120 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '7.2 " N , 8 ° 20' 32.2" E ; CH1903: six hundred sixty-eight thousand two hundred seventy-six / 244965