Trittligasse

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“Trittli” and parrot sculpture at the Haus zum Sitkust

The Trittligasse is a street in the old town of Zurich right of the Limmat . It leads from Oberdorfstrasse in an east-northeast direction to Winkelwiese .

Street names

Part of the steeply rising street is provided with steps - called Trittli in Swiss dialect - from which the current name is derived. The alley has been proven to have existed since at least 1489 and was then known as Hinterste Gasse or usser Gassly .

The current name has been used since around 1790, but at that time only applied to the lower section between Oberdorfstrasse (at that time still Hauptstrasse ) and Neustadtgasse , while the eastern section to Winkelwiese , in which there are no steps, was still the third at that time Alley was designated.

Special buildings

The mayor of Zurich, Hans Waldmann , who was executed on April 6, 1489, lived in the Haus zum Sitkust (number 2) on the right-hand side of the street right at the beginning . There is a parrot sculpture above the entrance to the house.

Behind the buildings on the south side of the street, which also includes the Sitkust house , are small gardens.

The Swiss doctor and naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer lived in the Haus zur Lerche (number 5) on the opposite side from 1700 until his death in 1733, and the Swiss chronicler Johannes Stumpf lived in the Haus zum Rehböckli (number 26) at the top of the street from 1562 until his death in 1578.

Outdoor play

In 1960, the first edition of the “Zurich Ballade” took place on the small square on the upper Trittligasse just below the Villa Tobler. A group of actors around the theater producer Edi Bau presented a satirical view of what was going on in Zurich for three months in good weather. The “Zurich Ballade” took place again in 1962 on Trittligasse, before it had to move to Villa Egli in Zurich's Seefeld district due to noise complaints. It took place for the last time in 1964. In 2017, the Zurich-based entertainer and producer Christian Jott Jenny will bring the occasion back to life and will perform the “Trittligass open-air play” for three weeks in September. The open-air theater offered around 300 people. Jürg Randegger from the original ensemble from the 1960s was there. Christian Jott Jenny, Walter Andreas Müller , Heidi Diggelmann, Barbara Baer, ​​Reto Hofstetter and Samuel Zünd were on stage with him .

Web links

Commons : Trittligasse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Baumann: Streets and alleys of Zurich's old town . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich, 1981), p. 59 / ISBN 3-85823-038-3
  2. ^ Matthias Dürst: The Trittligasse. In: Gang dur Alt-Züri. Retrieved June 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Walter Baumann: Streets and alleys of Zurich's old town . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich, 1981), pp. 60f
  4. ↑ Proof of house numbers and house names in: Walter Baumann: Strassen und Gassen der Zürcher Altstadt . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich, 1981), p. 62
  5. ^ Chairman and backbencher. Accessed January 30, 2018 . Tages-Anzeiger publishing house (Zurich, September 1, 2017)

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '10.1 "  N , 8 ° 32' 44.3"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-three thousand six hundred and thirteen  /  247104