Turnhaus Stadthausstrasse

Postcard of a section gymnastics festival held in 1854 with a picture of the gym

The gym on the game map from 1850

The Turnhaus Stadthausstrasse was the first gymnasium in Switzerland . The gymnasium built at Stadthausstrasse 18 according to the “Petition 1843 regarding the gymnasium” was built in 1845. At the same time, on May 1, 1845, the city gymnastics club Winterthur was founded, the city's first gymnastics club. The gymnasium existed in this location for around 22 years before it had to give way to the bank's headquarters in Winterthur in 1867 after the city had sold its land to the bank. The Lind Nord gymnasium was then built by city architect Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Bareiss on St. Georgenstrasse as a replacement building.

Today the Turnerstrasse is still reminiscent of the old location of the gymnasium in the immediate vicinity of Winterthur train station .

Individual evidence

↑ Winterthur, Zurich, Zug . In: INSA . tape 10 . Orell Füssli, Winterthur 2005, ISBN 3-280-02180-4 , p. 160 .
^ Kathrin Bänziger: Winterthur city guide . Edition Winterthur Foundation, Winterthur 2005, ISBN 3-9522599-1-8 ( edition-winterthur.ch [accessed on February 23, 2019]).

47.499974 8.725408Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '59.9 " N , 8 ° 43' 31.5" E ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-six thousand nine hundred fifty-two / 261,819

[1] Winterthur, Zurich, Zug . In: INSA . tape 10 . Orell Füssli, Winterthur 2005, ISBN 3-280-02180-4 , p. 160 .

[2] Kathrin Bänziger: Winterthur city guide . Edition Winterthur Foundation, Winterthur 2005, ISBN 3-9522599-1-8 ( edition-winterthur.ch [accessed on February 23, 2019]).