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The Villa Grünstels in Jona
The property with the two Remisen, aquatint by David Alois Schmid and Franz Hegi , around 1833

The Villa Grünstels is the former factory owner's villa of the Brändlin spinning mill in Jona , a district of the Swiss municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen .

Building history

With increasing industrialization, the majority of the factory owners who settled in Rapperswil became citizens of Jona, where they could still acquire enough land, and this is how the factory owners' villas Grünstels and Schloss Meienberg were created . Johann Jakob Staub acquired a plot of land on the Meienberg , built an elegant country estate in the classicist style and combined it with other plots to create a spacious landscape park. Staub's daughter married the industrialist Jakob Braendlin-Näf , who already lived on the Meienberg and had the Villa Grünstels built in 1822.

The factory owner's villa was laid out on a small Nagelfluh rock . The striking south side is characterized by the two-flight staircase and a Tuscan porch, while the access path to the north leads over the park-like north slope. Two utility buildings are grouped around the villa , facing north towards the Brändlin spinning mill . In 1896 the merchant Wilhelm Stiefel-Diener bought the villa, which was restored after a fire in 1830, after which the property was passed on to his adopted daughter Charlotte Stiefel.

Charlotte Stiefel (* 1898; † 1986) bequeathed the property to the community of Jona on condition that the facility be made accessible to the public. The municipality of Jona, which was independent until the municipality merged with Rapperswil, redesigned the Villa Grünstels and its remise as a house for culture . The main users are the music school and the day care center Grünstels. The day care center provides a supplement to the home for older people as part of the municipal Spitex services. The Green Music School offers a program for young people with music lessons, a theater workshop, talent development, ballet lessons and a singing school. A secondary user is the basement stage Villa Grünstels with music, cabaret and theater from the cabaret scene. The center for contemporary culture (ZAK) is housed in one of the property's two remises .

literature

  • Peter Röllin: Rapperswil-Jona cultural building set: 36 museums without a roof . Rapperswil-Jona 2005, ISBN 3-033-00478-4 .

Web links

Commons : Villa Grünstels  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Rapperswil-Jona city administration , accessed April 20, 2013
  2. ↑ Website of the city administration of Rapperswil-Jona, day care center Grünstels / Villa Grünstels , accessed April 20, 2013: The specialist staff looks after eight to ten guests on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the day from 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. and supports them in carrying out their life activities.
  3. ^ Website of the Rapperswil-Jona city administration, Grünstels Musikschule , accessed April 20, 2013
  4. ^ Website Kellerbühne Villa Grünstels , accessed April 20, 2013

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '52.4 "  N , 8 ° 50' 2.8"  E ; CH1903:  705 673  /  232085