Teufelhof Basel

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The Teufelhof Basel is a hotel in Basel's old town in two historic buildings at Leonhardsgraben 47–49. Parts of the building complex (Leonhardgraben 47) as well as the cellar (ground monument) are listed in the inventory of monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt.

history

The idea of ​​the company is to run independent art and culture as part of a «self-subsidization» of the cultural business through a parallel hotel and restaurant. Due to objections, the approval had to be obtained before the Swiss Federal Court before the opening. After this six and a half year waiting period, the house was opened on April 28, 1989. Today the Teufelhof Basel employs 70 people.

hotel

The hotel consists of two buildings, the art hotel and the gallery hotel. The art hotel has eight rooms and one suite, all of which have been created as habitable works of art. The gallery hotel has 20 rooms and four junior suites and is also used as an exhibition space. Nine art rooms were designed by different artists as an experience of spatial art. The artists are free to paint directly on the walls or to work with materials in the room. The Teufelhof also repeatedly supports artists with exhibitions or projects in the most varied of forms.

Cultural business

The cultural business includes a theater with cabaret performances and satirical programs. The promotion of regional individual artists and groups - from accompanying rehearsals in the in-house theater to the world premiere in the Teufelhof - also plays an important role in the design of the program. The theater is financed by the Teufelhof Basel, but has received an additional contribution from the two cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft since 2002.

In addition to the cultural activities in the sense of the theater and the art hotel, the house also houses two restaurants, the gourmet restaurant “Bel Etage” and the restaurant “Atelier”. In addition, the house houses a coffee bar, a gallery hotel with changing exhibitions that is offered as a free platform for the artists, a "falstaff" wine shop and a small archaeological museum, embedded in the historic Basel city walls from the 11th and 13th centuries.

building

It is on the one hand the monastery of the former St. Leonhard monastery and the Truchsesser Hof from the 18th century. In the extensive building complex there is now a small archaeological museum, embedded in the archaeological cellar: It is a station for the mediation of historical buildings in Basel. A winding tour leads between two medieval city walls (the Burkhard city wall - built around 1080–1100 - and the younger inner city wall - built 1200–1250), and both are reinforced by a rectangular and a semicircular tower or their foundations. The former city moat in front can also be read; Finds from its backfilling are displayed in showcases.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument protection of the building Leonhardgraben 47 , GeoViewer of the canton Basel-Stadt with listed buildings
  2. ↑ The Archaeological Cellar in the Teufelhof ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Archaeological soil research in the canton of Basel-Stadt @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archaeobasel.ch

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '21.3 "  N , 7 ° 35' 11.2"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred eleven thousand one hundred twenty-six  /  267257