Tiefenhöfe

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1638: The first building on the Tiefenhof. Depiction by Matthäus Merian
Tiefenhoflinde at Paradeplatz within the Bürklischer Garten "zum Tiefenhof", on the left the "Windegg" (with tower extension) and the "yellow armory", in the middle the post office, on the far right the fountain.

The Tiefenhöfe are a group of houses south of Paradeplatz in Zurich .

Front deep courtyards

It is not known when the first houses in the front Tiefenhöfe were built. They are shown for the first time in 1638 on the “Planvedute of the City of Zurich” by Matthäus Merian . They are not yet drawn in on Georg Braun's 1581 view of the city of Zurich .

The decisive factor for further development was probably the covering of the frogs' pit between the Hotel Baur and Poststrasse around 1835 . This increased the area of ​​the Neuer Markt, later Paradeplatz, across the moat to the hotel. At about the same time, Lieutenant Colonel, silk manufacturer and founder of the Actientheater Johann Georg Bürkli had the existing building on the "Vorderen Tiefenhof" demolished and a stately new building built in a classical style with gardens and fountains in its place . In 1837 the Tiefenhof linden tree planted after the Reformation was supposed to fall victim to the construction of the modern Poststrasse, but the opposition to it was so great that it was abandoned and integrated into the garden of the manor house. To the south of the building, a wooden bridge led over the frogs' pit to the scratching area .

The area of ​​the Tiefenhöfe underwent massive changes in the years 1856-1859. The widow of Johann Georg Bürkli, who died in 1851, had sold the entire property to the "Baugesellschaft zum Tiefenhof & Consorten". Their partners, the architect Gustav Albert Wegmann , the master builder August Conrad Stadler and the master carpenter Martin Koch-Schweizer built over the garden area and built the city's first commercial complex consisting of six individual buildings. On March 25, 1857, despite huge protests from the population and the press, the more than 250-year-old Tiefenhof linden tree, which was planted on the wall between the frogs and the Sihlgraben after the Reformation, fell victim to this building.

“Yes, it fell, the queen under the trees, the beautiful linden tree in the former Tiefenhof garden. Not a storm has crushed it, but it had to fall victim to the material direction of the time, which was only concerned with money and again money. The overthrow of this beautiful ornament of the city brings to mind the glaring contrast between the old romanticism and the present day sober prose, ” wrote the conservative“ Friday newspaper ”.

  • The area around the Paradeplatz around 1800. On the right the Fröschengraben and the Wollishofertor, on the left the Tiefenhoflinde

  • The area of ​​the Tiefenhöfe with Linde 1827 at Wollishofertor, view to the south

  • Same place in 1857: The Sprünglihaus

  • Obere Bahnhofstrasse 1870. Sprünglihaus on the right, Tiefenhöfe in the back. Left behind the scratching tower

  • The Tiefenhöfe in 1889 on Bahnhofstrasse before demolition

The Confiserie Sprüngli set up in the new building in 1859 on Bahnhofstrasse ; this in the hope that the new Zurich train station would be built on Paradeplatz. The old main building of the "Vorderen Tiefenhof" survived the structural changes. The carpenter Johann Rudolf Ochsner bought it in 1860 and built a furniture store against the Fröschengraben before the Bahnhofstrasse was built, in which the Jelmoli department store set up a women's clothing store between 1881 and 1899 . The buildings were demolished in 1900 for the construction of a large building for the Cantonal Bank.

Rear deep courtyards

The “Hinteren Tiefenhöfe” building on Bleicherweg was built in the 1840s by Conrad Landolt, who set up the “Café Landolt” in it. In 1893 Landolt had the “Hinteren Tiefenhöfe” converted into a larger residential and commercial building in the neo-renaissance style (Tiefenhöfe 7), on whose ground floor the “Café Landolt” was again housed. In 1907 it was renamed "Café Parade" and in 1917 it was converted into a purely commercial building.

literature

  • Walter Baumann: Zurich - Bahnhofstrasse . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1972.
  • Jürg Fierz (Ed.): Zurich - Who else is there? Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1972.
  • Thomas Germann: From 1621 to the first city association in 1893 (Zurich in fast motion; vol. 2). Werd-Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85932-322-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Thomas Germann: Zurich in Time Lapse Volume II, Werd-Verlag Zurich, 2002
  2. ^ Walter Baumann: Zurich - Bahnhofstrasse . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1972

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '9.5 "  N , 8 ° 32' 20.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-three thousand one hundred and fourteen  /  247078