Schönauerhof
The Schönauerhof is a listed building in Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau . It is located in the west of the old town on Bahnhofstrasse, near the city church of St. Martin . The core of the Gothic building dates from the 16th century and is named after the barons of Schönau .
history
Like the neighboring Hugenfeld school building , the Schönauerhof stands on the area of the former "old castle", a small castle of the Counts of Rheinfelden, which was built in the 10th or 11th century to secure the crossing of the Rhine . The current building on the west side of Bahnhofstrasse (formerly called Beuggengasse) was built around 1523, when Rudolf von Schönau had a building on the confluent Tempelgasse included. The vaulted cellar and ground floor date from this period. The roof, windows and floors had to be repaired in 1678 after French artillery fire during the Dutch War .
Due to a lack of money, the Schönauers sold the house in the 1720s. Rentmeister Tobias Tanner ordered the construction of a new roof structure and the division of the ground floor corridor in 1767 . A second vaulted cellar was excavated around 1850 . In 1864 the facade was regulated, the stair tower was rebuilt and a rear porch was added . A garage was added in 1931 and the first floor was converted in 1955. After the southern half of the ground floor had been rebuilt in 1985, the facade was renovated in 2003.
Building
From the outside, the Schönauerhof is an unadorned, undivided cube with a large half- hipped roof and four street-side and three gable-side window axes . At the back there is a four- story stair tower with a steep, pyramid-shaped helmet . A landscape garden laid out in 1870 extends to the curtain wall . In the northwest corner of the garden there is a pavilion from the 1930s. The lintel of the garden gate, dated 1523, is decorated with an alliance coat of arms (Schönau / Blarer von Girsberg).
Under the northern third of the house is a vaulted cellar dating back to the 14th century. In front of this is a much less deep, narrow vaulted cellar on the east side; the cellar stairs lead to a double-leaf door in the central corridor of the first floor. The three northern rooms on the ground floor each have two Gothic door frames . The stair tower is equipped with a letter post elevator from 1864. A box oven with terracotta friezes is particularly noteworthy from the 19th century interior .
literature
- Edith Hunziker, Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IX, Rheinfelden district. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-906131-94-8 , pp. 161-163 .