Clock museum to the Rösli
The clock museum Zum Rösli is a clock museum in Zurich .
description
The Zum Rösli clock museum houses an exhibition of around 500 table, wall and grandfather clocks from the years 1450 to 1950. The collection of the donors Marta Gisler and Hans Neufeld is exhibited on two floors. Marta Gisler's collection is mainly dedicated to Swiss watchmakers and includes a large number of wooden wheel and iron clocks. Hans Neufeld's collection contains a large number of Renaissance watches.
The museum also includes a specialist workshop for antique clocks, where maintenance and restoration work is carried out on clocks and wall clocks from all eras.
history
The house to the Rösli
In 1803 there was an economy building at Röslistrasse 46. This house belonged to the then mayor and cantonal councilor Zangger. Because he wanted to sell the house, he converted it into a schoolhouse in 1856 and offered the building to the city at a price of CHF 11,000. Since the community did not have enough money, a stock corporation was founded which produced 220 registered shares at CHF 50 each.
The classroom was on the first floor and could accommodate up to 50 students. On the top floor, the teacher provided his students with additional space for handicraft lessons. He himself used the middle floor as an apartment. But soon the house was too small and the school had to move. That is why the community sold the house in 1887 and the new owner became the primary school teacher Johann Gisler.
The collections
Marta Gisler's father, also a teacher, was a passionate collector. In the beginning there were stones with a variety of colors and patterns, then he became increasingly interested in iron clocks. The same passion was passed on from him to his daughter Marta Gisler, who cultivated and expanded the legacy over the years. In the 1960s Marta Gisler met Hans Neufeld, who was also a passionate watch collector.
Foundation of the museum
Marta Gisler and Hans Neufeld founded the “Clock Collection Hans Neufeld and Marta Gisler” foundation in 2003 in order to jointly make their collections accessible to the public. Marta Gisler's house became a watch museum. In order to realize the project, the "Röslihaus" was rebuilt and renovated in 2005 by Hans Neufeld's construction business. Hans Neufeld died of a heart failure on Röslistrasse before the museum opened. His sons Peter and Ronald and Marta Gisler completed the museum with the help of a local watchmaker. Marta Gisler died in 2016.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '24.4 " N , 8 ° 32' 39.8" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred eighty-six / 249397