Sensler Museum

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The Sigristenhaus from the outside
Sigristenhaus, Sensler Museum in Tafers
lead-glazed windows
5-part row of cars with honeycomb-shaped lead glazing, bars and slider
Detail of the carnies frieze
Carnies frieze in the window parapet of the gable front

The Sensler Museum is the cultural-historical museum of the Sense district in Tafers , Canton of Friborg , Switzerland. It collects and preserves cultural assets and supports contemporary cultural creation. The museum was opened in 1975 in the Sigristenhaus in the village center.

building

The building in which the Sensler Museum is housed dates from the 18th century. It was originally built as a schoolhouse. In the course of time it served as a debt enforcement and bankruptcy office, magistrate's court , Sigristenhaus and private building.

The sponsor is the Sensler Museum Foundation, which was established by the Deutschfreiburger Heimatkundeverein, the Tafers parish as the owner and the local community. The parish of St. Martin, the parish of Tafers and the village of Tafers make up the owner company Sigristenhaus, which rents the building to the Sensler Museum Foundation at a symbolic price.

The house is a representative example of Sensler wooden architecture in the late 18th century. Although it was built in 1780 by master carpenter Hans Meuwly as a parish school, it is based on the type of a farmhouse, from which it stands out in that the house entrance is arranged in the central axis of the gable front and can be reached via a two-flight outside staircase, which was then used for parish school houses, led by Catholic priests was common. A two-storey outer arbor with arbor arches in the parapet divides the representative gable arch front under a part of the hipped roof . The arbor on the second floor is supported by two struts in the two corner posts and two more in the door posts, the axis of which continues in two swellable columns above. These support the arbor on the third floor. Here a high, also swellable column continues the vertical in the ridge axis and supports the canopy cladding as a gable arch support. In addition to the doors in the ridge axis, five-part rows of windows with honeycomb lead glazing, window bars and sliders illuminate the living spaces on the two lower floors. In the attic, a window flanks the door in the ridge axis. The typical round ends in the form of an offset semicircular frieze.

Another arbor runs on the lower floor over the front part of the eastern eaves side. It is accessible from the kitchen via an internal staircase that leads to the upper living area.

The house entrance in the gable front leads into a corridor, from which a door on the left and right gives access to the living room, originally probably a classroom, and straight ahead into the kitchen with an oven, open roof and chimney. The sandstone stoves in the two rooms could also be heated from the former kitchen room, which now houses the museum reception. In the mighty chimney there are wooden poles on which bacon and sausages were hung for smoking. A narrow wooden staircase leads from the kitchen to a platform, which gives access to the eaves-side outside arbor and one of the chambers. Here the room layout is repeated from below: two chambers above the parlors, in between a central aisle that leads to the arbor. The top floor is open. Here, too, you enter the top arbor through a door in the ridge axis.

Inscriptions in painted Gothic script run across the entire width of the lintels on the two residential floors. In the lower part there are admonishing and confessing sayings: Want my child to = Nemmen in the virtue / So let yourself under = whites in the youth / Dan in the age is too late / Where the memory decreases // So Dù Vill children and inherit Gwinnst / So let them teach Güete art / In divine research, in discipline and honor / So may you nourish yourself all the way / You must draw my child in godly research and peace / So God will give you eternal happiness as a reward . And in the lintel of the door, an inscription invokes the protection of the Holy Family: Jesus Maria And Joseph / I want to keep Disse's house . On the lintels of the upper floor you can find the names of the client and on the lintels the name of the carpenter: Master Hans Möwli .

The wooden house is listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property protection (KGS inventory) in category B.

history

The Sigristenhaus was restored from 1973 to 1975 at a cost of around 640,000 Swiss francs and set up as a Sensler Heimatmuseum. In 2010 the attic was repaired and the shingle and tile roof renewed.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition

The permanent exhibition, divided into six rooms, is entirely dedicated to the Sense district: 1) the language area of Sensler German , 2) everyday culture, 3) history, 4) music, 5) economy, 6) pilgrimage.

Temporary exhibitions

In four, since 2020 three annual temporary exhibitions, both historical and contemporary cultural assets or works of art are on display. They take up topics ranging from regional to national and international, such as B. gingerbread, nativity scenes in Advent and nativity scenes in Germany, Polish Christmas or the Way of St. James. Contributions from regionally known artists such as the paintings by Elmar Schafer, but also from nationally to internationally known artists such as Bruno Baeriswyl , the Schmitten textile artist Gisela Progin or the freshwater photographer Michel Roggo can be seen . Sometimes it's about works of art (paintings, drawings, plastic, poetry), sometimes about handicrafts (crib construction, paper cribs), sometimes about the documentation of tradition and craft (gingerbread, photo exhibition by 47 artists on the topic of departure - éclosion ). It is not uncommon for the museum to develop new documentation on selected topics and reveal new contexts.

Additional offers

In addition to the permanent and temporary exhibitions, the museum organizes studios and workshops and offers on the Internet, such as the Museum at Home , where objects are intended to stimulate thought, research, handicrafts and reconstruction. There are guided tours in German and French.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sensler Museum: mission statement. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Sensler Museum: About us. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sensler Museum: EG Sigristenhaus. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  4. ^ Moritz Boschung: 10 years Sensler Heimatmuseum in Tafers 1975-1985 . In: Freiburger Volkskalender . 1986, p. 178-179 .
  5. ^ Jean-Pierre Anderegg: The farmhouses of the canton of Friborg - La maison paysanne fribourgeoise . Volume 1: The districts of Saane, See, Sense. Tome 1: Les districts du Lac, de la Sarina et de la Singine (= Swiss Society for Folklore - Société suisse des traditions populaires [ed.]: The farmhouses of Switzerland - La maison paysanne suisse . Volume 7 ). G. Krebs AG, Basel 1979, p. 334 .
  6. ↑ François Reichlen: Ancienne maison d'école du village de Tavel . In: Société des amis des beaux-arts & des ingénieurs & architectes (ed.): Friborg artistique à travers les âges . Josué Labastrou, Friborg 1906.
  7. ^ Jean-Pierre Anderegg: The farmhouses of the canton of Friborg - La maison paysanne fribourgeoise . Volume 1: The districts of Saane, See, Sense. Tome 1: Les districts du Lac, de la Sarine et de la Singine (= Swiss Society for Folklore - Société suisse des traditions populaires [ed.]: The farmhouses of Switzerland - La maison paysanne suisse . Volume 7 ). G. Krebs AG, Basel 1979, p. 209 (Fig. 537) .
  8. ^ Jean-Pierre Anderegg: The farmhouses of the canton of Friborg - La maison paysanne fribourgeoise . Volume 1: The districts of Saane, See, Sense. Tome 1: Les districts du Lac, de la Sarine et de la Singine (= Swiss Society for Folklore - Société suisse des traditions populaires [ed.]: The farmhouses of Switzerland - La maison paysanne suisse . Volume 7 ). G. Krebs SA, Basel 1979, p. 219 (Fig. 541) .
  9. ^ Federal Office for Civil Protection: B objects. FR. Federal Office for Civil Protection, 2018, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  10. ^ Moritz Boschung: 10 years Sensler Heimatmuseum in Tafers 1975-1985 . In: Freiburger Volkskalender . 1986, p. 178-179 .
  11. ↑ Sensler Museum: permanent exhibition. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Herbert Ming: Balliswil, please get in! Regionaljournal Bern, Friborg, Wallis, May 7, 2010, accessed on May 18, 2020 (Swiss-German).
  13. ↑ Bruno Bosshard: Gingerbread Exhibition. SRF daily news, December 26, 2010, accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Bruno Bosshard: Nativity scenes in Advent. SRF daily news, November 27, 2005, accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Sensler Museum: Archive exhibitions. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Sensler Museum: home museum. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .