Sihlberg Castle
The Sihlberg Castle (originally "Villa Sihlberg") on the Sihlberg , one of the highest points of the narrow spray drift in Zurich , is the former residence of the brewery family Hürlimann .
history
After Albert Heinrich Hürlimann , the second patron of the Hürlimann brewery, relocated the brewery in 1866 from Feldbach to the municipality of Enge, which was then just outside Zurich, he had a villa built on the Sihlberg directly adjacent to the factory site in 1897/1898. The architect was August Heinrich Müller, a student from Semper from Schaffhausen, and the park, which is now largely overbuilt, was designed by garden architect Evariste Mertens .
In 1911 the architects Gull & Geiger built retaining walls, in 1922 the architect F. Erismann built a veranda. The flat parts of the park were built over with multi-family houses in the middle of the century. From 1977 to 1980 part of the Rudolf Steiner School in Zurich was located in the villa. In 1985/1986 the outer shell was renovated.
After the death of Martin Hürlimann, who was the last of his family to live in the house, the building was sold in 2005 by the heirs to the architect Edgar Schwyn, who had it extensively restored. Individual rooms in the castle are rented out. From January to March 2007, the candidates for the third season of Musicstar lived in the villa.
In 2007, the city of Zurich placed the entire property under monument protection . As a result, there was a legal dispute between the owner and the city authorities in connection with the renovation of the old building fabric and a planned new building in the park. In 2011, the Federal Supreme Court dismissed Schwyn's appeal against a decision by the Administrative Court, thus confirming that the house and its gardens will retain their status as a “high-ranking property”. The owner now wants to launch an architecture competition for an extension together with the city and offer the building to foreign companies as their place of business.
architecture
The building, reminiscent of a castle, with a living space of 1750 m² and an area of 4000 m² was the work of mature historicism . The building is one of the most stately in Zurich.
The architecture is based on the French early renaissance , but also takes up late Gothic forms. The picturesque grouping of the buildings, whose mass is loosened up by attached towers and verandas, is characteristic of late historicism. This creates a lively roof landscape, the character of which is emphasized by small triangular dormers, helmet bars and chimneys. The facades enliven numerous window shapes. The lordly claim of the building is expressed by the precious facade cladding in Lägern limestone, the sandstone elements, the glazed bricks and the rich architectural sculpture. It is not limited to the usual window canopies, volutes, geometric motifs and coats of arms, but also includes dazzling tracery, tracery, shells, rose petals, acanthus leaves and figurative representations. Noteworthy are the "hero's heads" framed by rich leafy tendrils, fruits and flowers on the east tower, the grimaces on the south-west tower, the sandstone sculptures of the heads of all six children by Albert Heinrich Hürliman under the windows of the children's and sewing rooms and the figurative console under the "pepper box »On the northeast corner of the building.
Inside, the richly furnished and functionally arranged rooms are grouped around spacious halls that are accessed via a representative staircase. Different styles were used here as well. The dining room with the old Zurich tower stove, the salon, parts of the hall, most of the stucco work and the main staircase breathe the spirit of the 18th century, the cultural heyday of Zurich. For the boudoir and men's room, furnishings were chosen that probably reflect the characters of the housewife and host: the men's room takes on cautious baroque shapes and is furnished with hard, light oak wood. The lady's boudoir looks warm and mysterious with the reddish mahogany paneling and the elegant green cherninee. The Art Nouveau forms of the heating box grilles and the chandelier as well as the stucco work in the form of a spider in the web are much more modern compared to the other rooms. A prefabricated stucco rosette with hops and barley was added to the children's room: the children grew up under the sign of beer! The combination of traditional forms of architecture with the latest technical achievements is also typical of the 19th century. These include the many toilets and bathrooms, the electrical lighting that has even been integrated into the stucco work, a goods lift, sliding doors, a patented umbrella stand in the vestibule and the sophisticated mechanism of the sliding shutters in all rooms of the villa.
literature
- Building culture in Zurich: Enge, Wollishofen, Leimbach (= buildings worthy of protection and good architecture of recent years [without volume number]). Edited by the Building Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2006, p. 83 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pulling a rope around the protected Villa Sihlberg , www.tagesanzeiger.ch, accessed on August 14, 2009
- ^ The Villa Sihlberg must not become an event location , www.nzz.ch, accessed on March 3, 2011
- ^ "Sihlberg" remains under protection , www.nzz.ch, accessed on March 3, 2011
- ↑ a b c Baukultur in Zurich: Enge, Wollishofen, Leimbach (= buildings worthy of protection and good architecture of recent years [without volume number]). Edited by the Building Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2006, p. 83 f.
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '47.8 " N , 8 ° 31' 29.9" E ; CH1903: 682 062 / 246395