Government building (Frauenfeld)
The government building of the canton of Thurgau (Zürcherstrasse 188) stands in the middle of the city of Frauenfeld , the capital of the canton. The location is a little higher on the promenade, which also leads to Schloss Frauenfeld .
| Government building Frauenfeld TG | |
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 The newly renovated government building |
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| Data | |
| place | Frauenfeld TG |
| architect | Johann Joachim Brenner / Alfred Brenner |
| Client | Canton of Thurgau |
| Architectural style | Late classicism |
| Construction year | 1868 |
| Coordinates | 709 924 / 268 412 |
| particularities | |
| Seat of the cantonal government and administration building | |
Architecture and history
The building was opened in 1868, 65 years after the founding of the canton, when Thurgau became an independent canton from a subject area. The government building of the canton of Thurgau in Frauenfeld is one of the most outstanding works by Johann Joachim Brenner , the founder of the architectural dynasty that is now said to have "built Thurgau". Designed in 1868 as an expression of a young, blossoming community, the architecture of the government building embodies the virtues of the local people: sober clarity, restrained jewelry, solidity in material and construction.
«The new government building, planned by Joachim Brenner (1815–1887), the shell of the building completed in 1866 and occupied in the spring of 1868, is a two-story, elongated building with slightly emphasized central and corner projections . He pays homage to a highly dedicated, ornamental poor late classicism Semper shear architectural thinking. The elements consistently pay attention to the simplest geometric shapes, which come together without any pathos to form a cleverly balanced, but more graphically and planar, than space-conscious unit. "
Over time, the building has been renovated again and again. In 1936 Albert Brenner, Johann Joachim Brenner's son, was commissioned to build a new wing in the same style for the State Archives . The facade was copied exactly, although the height of the interior did not correspond to the windows, but was designed only for the archive shelves. A total renovation took place between 2011 and 2013, which was guided by the architectural specifications. The state archive was relocated and new office space was created for the administration.
In 2014 the artist Joëlle Allet designed the artwork The Fabulous Government . It consists of five heraldic animals cast in bronze (beaver, fox, wild boar, owl, hare) that were placed in front of the building.
literature
- Albert Knöpfli: The art monuments of the canton of Thurgau - The district of Frauenfeld (= The art monuments of Switzerland . Vol. 23). Edited by the Swiss Society for Art History. Birkhäuser, Basel 1950, pp. 64, 68, 137–141, 144. ( digitized version )
- Kantonales Hochbauamt Thurgau (Ed.): Government building Frauenfeld - renovation and restructuring 2011–2013. Frauenfeld 2014. ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kantonales Hochbauamt Thurgau (ed.): Frauenfeld government building - renovation and restructuring 2011–2013. Frauenfeld 2014. ( digitized version )
- ^ Albert Knöpfli: The art monuments of the canton of Thurgau - The district of Frauenfeld (= The art monuments of Switzerland . Vol. 23). Edited by the Swiss Society for Art History. Birkhäuser, Basel 1950, pp. 64, 68, 137–141, 144. ( digitized version )