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The Stapfer Schulhaus is a school building in Brugg in the canton of Aargau . It stands on Museumstrasse immediately west of the old town, was built in 1909 and is a cultural asset of regional importance .
Building history
The Brugger community school, which was later named after Philipp Albert Stapfer , the «Minister of Culture» of the Helvetic Republic , is located west of the old town of Bruges, right in front of the archive tower , to which the attendant house has moved. It was built in 1909 by the construction company Gentsch, Strasse & Cie., Based on plans by Albert Froelich , an architect who came from Brugg and was then based in Charlottenburg . executed. The construction costs of the school house, including the caretaker's apartment and the surrounding work, came to around 320,000 francs . From 1982 to 1986 the interior was renovated and from 1987 to 1988 an exterior renovation (installation of roof hatches ).
In 2017, the renovation and expansion of the Stapfer school building and the renewal of the Hallwyler sports field were tackled. This should be completed in 2018 and will cost the city of Brugg 10.56 million francs.
architecture
The building is divided into a mighty, tower-reinforced west wing and a lower east wing, which are connected by a slightly recessed central wing . To the north, the wing buildings are decorated with decorative gables. Landmark Stapferschulhauses is crowned by a round tower with Biforien clock tower with achtteiligem spire . Strong boss masonry in Jura limestone characterizes the ground floor as the building base. The wall surfaces above are plastered with a broom throw. For the windowing, partly gothic cross-frame windows made of limestone, partly row windows with bossed square posts were chosen. The main portal, which closes in a basket arch, is adorned with a blown gable on Tuscan half-columns. Above the keystone carved as a woman's head, two putti hold the coat of arms of the city of Brugg and each with a cornucopia. The western transverse building houses the staircase arranged in the axis of the main entrance.
Interior of the building
The original room plan comprised twelve classrooms, two reserve rooms, two study rooms, a teacher's room, two handicraft rooms, a kitchen, a large pantry and the vaulted singing room on two floors. The teachers' room is located above the entrance hall, and in the basement there is a school kitchen, a dining room, rooms for manual skills lessons, heating and a shower room. Particularly noteworthy is the singing hall, which is characterized by a cross vault on openwork pillars. The room is equipped with high door, tannigem paneling lined. The same applies to the teachers' room, where the frieze above was painted over with decorative paintings. The staircase made of granite steps with wrought-iron railing and wooden handrail, which ends in a ram's head, is the original .
Surroundings
Froelich designed an ornamental fountain with an octagonal basin for the northern schoolyard . The sculpture Mother and Child on the Fountain Column was modeled by the Zurich sculptor Arnold Hünerwadel, and the execution was carried out by the Schwyzer brothers in Zurich . The inscription reads: «ARCHITEKT ALB. FROELICH inherited this house. ANNO DOM. 1909 ». The caretaker's house takes on the main design features of the main building with transverse wings, bossed brickwork and cross-frame windows. The south facade accentuates a bow window . The building is directly connected to the archive tower with an archway and thus also leads optically from the old town to the Stapferschulhaus.
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- KGS short inventory, ZSO Brugg Region, KGS inventory number 15312
- Aargauer Zeitung Online
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Hunziker: Venerable Stapfer school building in Brugg has been given a new look. Aargauer Zeitung , June 6, 2016, accessed on June 23, 2017 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '5.6 " N , 8 ° 12' 16.5" E ; CH1903: 657729 / 259628