Redinghaus
The Redinghaus is a representative building built in 1771 at Zürcherstrasse No. 180 in Frauenfeld . It served as the government building of the canton of Thurgau and is now owned by the city of Frauenfeld. It got its name from the Reding von Biberegg family, who provided a number of land clerks in the 17th and 18th centuries .
history
The Redinghaus was built by Landschreiber Joseph Ludwig Nikolaus von Reding , scion of a Frauenfeld Landschreiber dynasty, after the old Landschanzlei (Landschreiberei) on Vordergasse was destroyed in the city fire of July 19, 1771. It remained in family ownership, was sold to the government building of the canton of Thurgau in 1807 and again to private owners in 1867. On January 3, 1868, the Frauenfeld iron merchant J. Conrad Keller bought the building, which until 1981 housed the iron shop of the Keller family. In 2005 it was donated to the city of Frauenfeld, which rents it out as a commercial and residential building.
architecture
The Redinghaus, which was listed as a historical monument in 1974, is the work of the important Lucerne architect Joseph Purtschert . The three-storey palace is built in the late baroque style. It impresses with its strictly proportioned façade, including two arched gable fields with three-dimensional decorations and an elaborately designed main portal. Before 1798 it served as a country writing office. In the archive you can still read the chronogram on a vaulted arch: T V N C LV ES A C AR D OR M OT V S ET PEN V R I A TERRAE (At that time (raging) epidemic, fire, earthquake and rising prices). It gives the year 1771. The iron door and the barred window of the former state chancellery have also been preserved.
literature
- Stefan Hilzinger: Jewelery and the falls of man . Interview with the former Thurgau monument conservator Jürg Ganz, in: Thurgauer Zeitung , July 10, 2015, p. 41.
- Angelus Hux : The Redinghaus in Frauenfeld. A search for clues. Genius Media AG, Frauenfeld 2010.
- Albert Knoepfli: The art monuments of the canton of Thurgau. Vol. 1. The Frauenfeld district. Verlag Birkhäuser, Basel 1950, p. 135.
- August Schmid: The community center in Switzerland. La Maison bourgeoise en Suisse. XIX. Bd. Canton Thurgau. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1928.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ From land scribe to printer , historical outline of the current user Genius Media AG
- ↑ Frauenfeld, Zürcherstrasse 180, in: Office for Monument Preservation, Information Inventory. Ass.-No .: 24 / 1-0417