Town hall Palfries
The so-called town hall Palfries is a 600 year old knitted structure 1630 m above sea level. M. in Hinterpalfries on the Alp Palfries in the municipality of Wartau in Eastern Switzerland .
construction
The knitted building with a raised entrance has a gently sloping gable roof and the rear facade is in the ground. The core building has a footprint of 9 × 8 meters. On the valley side is the slightly raised room and above it a chamber. The house entrance on the southeast side leads into the corridor next to the living room, the one on the northeast side leads directly into the smoke kitchen . A very steep staircase leads to the cellar. The brick cheese cellar behind the living area is younger. Its roof has the same ridge direction , but is steeper and higher.
history
In 1414 Palfries was first mentioned as a Walser settlement . A dendrochronological investigation in 1997 showed that the timber was felled between 1407 and 1410. A document from 1146 shows that the Wartau Walsers were organized as a community with an Ammann . However, it is not certain whether this archaic building was actually the town hall of the Walser am Gonzen . A flat square on the Walserberg is also known as the town hall floor .
During the restoration in 1969/70, the building was returned to its original state and an annex on the west side was removed. In 1998, the roof was with large shingles of a Douglas fir covered again.
Interior
Open work and kitchen space
Entrance to the kitchen
Look into the living room
Stairs to the upper floor
Solid support in the basement
literature
- Armin Eberle, Meinrad Gschwend, Irene Hochreutener Naef, Robert Kruker: The farmhouses of the canton of St.Gallen . Ed .: Swiss Society for Folklore . tape 35.1 . Basel and Herisau 2018, ISBN 978-3-908122-98-2 , p. 266-267 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Walser in Wartau . Tourism Wartau information sign at the Palfries mountain inn
Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ' N , 9 ° 24' E ; CH1903: 748975 / 218,060