Schützenmattstrasse (Lenzburg)

Fountain from 1840

The Schützenmattstrasse in Lenzburg is a historical street of houses in the same district capital in the canton of Aargau . It runs roughly in a north-south direction and is directed somewhat to the east at its northern end. Together with the buildings surrounding it, all of which were built in the same period of time, which are now under monument protection, it can be understood as an assembly group .

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Schützenmattstrasse is part of the old Bern - Zurich trunk road and is located north of the old town of Lenzburg. It is entered in the federal inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland and is described as “National importance, historical course with a lot of substance”. It begins at the Gasthaus zur Krone on Kronenplatz and after about 200 meters merges into Hendschikerstrasse, which as Hauptstrasse 1 still connects Bern and Zurich. This supra-regional road connection now runs north of the old town.

The city of Lenzburg honors the street with benevolent attributes. By pointing out that even the federal government is contributing one sixth of the costs to the 2018 renovation, it shows the great importance that is attached to the street. It got its current form in the 19th century, when both sides of the street were built with stately villas . These villas still surround extensive park-like gardens today, which are closed to the street with stone and forged fences and, since 1837, on the mountain side to the Schlossberg with a retaining wall.

The street is completely cobblestone. This was last straightened in the late summer of 2018 after 35 years, whereby a third of the old stones could be reused. Next to the Gasthaus zur Krone (KGS no .: 15531), which was built in 1760–1770, on the left side of the street out of town with the house numbers 3 to 7 is the Villa Alice (also Villa Hünerwadel , 1837/38, KGS no. : 9872), the Rose house (1840 KGS No .: 9870) and the Villa Malaga (1840 KGS No .: 9873). Opposite on the slope, already belonging to Steinbrüchliweg, the three-storey house Steinbrüchliweg 1 (KGS-No .: 15550) with its pavilion (KGS-No .: 15537) built by councilor Samuel Seiler in 1767/68 . A few steps out of town is the house at Schützenmattstrasse 6 (KGS no .: 15545), which was initially built as a tobacco factory in 1768. This is where the Lenzburg eye tobacco "to strengthen eyesight" comes from .

A public fountain (KGS no .: 15529) in the Biedermeier style has been set back between house numbers 5 and 7 in 1840 . This fountain is made of fine-grained white limestone. A shell-shaped, semi-oval basin is fed by a brass water pipe. The pilaster-like floor is crowned by a tympanum- shaped gable with a floral motif.

Schützenmattstrasse takes its name from the Schützenmatt district , the north-western part of the Lindfeld district , which is still common today. The Schützenmatt is about 400 meters beyond the Zofingen – Wettingen railway line, completed here in 1875, on the edge of the forest.