Tröckneturm in the Sulzerhof
The Tröckneturm in Sulzerhof (also called Hänkiturm ) is a B- classified cultural asset in the canton of Thurgau within the municipality of Aadorf .
location
The tower is located about 100 meters from the course of the Lützelmurg on the opposite side of Aadorf on the western edge of the canton of Thurgau and north of Hauptstrasse 7 from Elgg . With its eventful history, it belongs to the “Sulzerhof” property and thus belongs to the industrialist and banker Heinrich Sulzer-Steiner .
Since the building was shortened in the middle of the 20th century, the almost square floor plan has had a stone base that protects the outer walls against rising damp. The weather side is planked with wooden slats, the decorative side (south) is built in visible half-timbering, while the other surfaces are plastered. The far projecting roof structure is supported diagonally, the roof surface is covered with roof tiles.
history
The "Sulzerhof" property was founded in 1833 with the aim of setting up a red dye works there. The drying tower , completed in 1847 as an upper warm and air slope , was used to dry the dyed cotton towels . At that time there were around 18 comparable companies across Switzerland, two of them in Thurgau. The tower was built there on an open meadow called Sulzerwise , because there was no more space on the actual company premises down at the Lützelmurg. Better drying was also to be expected up here. The lower air slopes near the streambed had been built beforehand and burned down to their foundations on the night of March 17-18, 1847, but were immediately rebuilt.
The buildings Upper air suspension received his erection own fire tube heating system for drying; a rare example and the last known example of this type in Switzerland today .
It was used as a drying tower until the shutdown in 1921. From 1922 it was liquidated . Sulzer was one of the last red dyeing sites in Switzerland. However, since the last quarter of the 19th century, this drying option was no longer used due to decreasing capacities and was converted in 1893 to overwinter potted plants. Insufficient heating output caused the base area of the wooden house to rot visibly. In the winter of 1943/1944, the entire rotting wooden structure was lifted with the help of winches and the height was reduced from below by almost two meters and placed on a newly erected stone base. Thus the proportions changed, the building is no longer true to the original, but it could be preserved with its heating system.
use
Today the upper floor (3rd floor) with its 200 square meters is available as an event room. Since the owner, in cooperation with the supervising monument office, wanted to largely avoid drastic structural changes during the renovation in 2011, this room is only permitted for a maximum of 99 people for fire protection reasons. A stonemason has settled down on the ground floor, and office space can be used by up to three parties on the two floors in between.
literature
- Urs Frankhausen: Restorations completed in 2011. Aadorf, Sulzerhof. In: A case for ... The Thurgau Monument Foundation. Office for the Preservation of Monuments of the Canton of Thurgau. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-7965-2887-3 , p. 83.
Web links
- Pictures and brief description before and after the renovation in 2011
- Site plan from 1852
- Picture of the Tröckneturm, west and south side from the outside
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Urs Frankhausen: Restorations completed in 2011. Office for the Preservation of Monuments of the Canton of Thurgau. 2012
- ↑ History of Rootfarb
- ↑ Reconstruction and renovation of the Tröckneturm