Walserhaus (Triesenberg)
The so-called Walserhaus is a two-storey Rheintaler farmhouse built in 1601 in a knitted construction in the “Hag” corridor in the Liechtenstein municipality of Triesenberg . The former small farmers now house is part of the Walser Museum Triesenberg and documents the living culture of the 19th century.
construction
The so-called Walser house was in 1601 as a traditional timber-Strickbau with protruding Gwettköpfen and durchgezäpften built internal walls, on a threshold wreath is. This rests on the masonry basement, with only the room and the side room having a cellar. The spatial structure corresponds to the floor plan common from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. On the ground floor there is a room and ancillary room on the valley side, and the smoke kitchen, which was then open to the ridge, across the entire width of the house . On the south side is an arbor extension with the house entrance into the kitchen. On the upper floor there is only a single chamber across the width of the house above the living room and ancillary room, which differs from the classic room structure, which was probably originally accessed via a ladder. The roof was only slightly inclined because at that time only local shingles with coarse stones were used as roofing material .
Building history development
Because there are hardly any original buildings left in the Alpine Rhine Valley from the Walser colonization that took place in the 14th century, it is not possible to make general statements about the typical Liechtenstein Walser house. The houses of that time, like the so-called Walserhaus in the "Hag", were built as knitted log buildings, their flat gable roofs covered with shingles and weighted down with stones.
The Walserhaus in Triesenberg shows a development typical of the time, although in the remote Triesenberg a development delay of one or two generations must be expected in the late 18th and 19th centuries. In the 17th or 18th century, farm buildings - a stable, a barn or workshops - were added to the north. At the end of the 17th or the beginning of the 18th century, the house was raised by around four wreaths of beams and the relatively flat roof was replaced by a steeply inclined rafter roof for tile roofing . A ceiling was drawn in over the kitchen, which was open until then, creating a staircase to the upper floor and an additional chamber there on the valley side.
In the first half or in the middle of the 19th century the interior fittings of the living room and ancillary room were renewed. On the parlor row window , the previous slug windows were replaced by lattice windows and a drawer box was attached. In the second half of the 19th century, the side room was extended northwards into the previous barn using frame construction technology and the slug windows in the side room and the chamber on the valley side on the upper floor were replaced by lattice windows. The south-facing arbor was replaced by a new wing and the south facade with round shingle clad. In the second quarter of the 20th century the roof structure was renewed and the tapered roofs that were towed over the two eaves-side extensions were covered with tiles. The downstairs chamber on the upper floor was given a plaster ceiling and the “stable” was converted into a laundry room .
Residents
The house in the "Hag" is considered the parent house of the Lampert family, known as "d'Hagar". When the land register was opened in 1809, it belonged to Joseph Lampert, son of Georg Lampert, who died in 1769, and his wife Barbara Beck. Joseph Beck bought it in 1813. It remained in the possession of the Beck family until Gottlieb Beck emigrated to Frastanz in 1864 and sold the house to Josef Sele, who was married to Josepha Beck. His son Emilian Sele emigrated to the USA and rented the house to the Augustin Lampert family.
In 1910 the sticker and musician Ferdinand Schädler, husband of Sabina Sele, bought the house. The house in the "Hag" remained in the possession of his descendants, who were known as "dr Hag-Stickar" (the Hag-Sticker). In 1959 it was bought by the community of Triesenberg, which turned it into the "Walser Building and Living Museum", the first Liechtenstein local museum.
Todays use
The Triesenberg community redesigned the house into a local museum for Walser customs. The pigsty and two slug panes in the southern extension, the entire interior of the kitchen including the fireplace, the room stove and the buffet , the staircase to the upper floor and there the painted chamber door from 1835 and the wooden ceiling in the bedroom were furnished like a museum .
In 1981 the Walser Museum moved to the center of the village and was redesigned. The “Walserhaus” at Hagstrasse 3 has been a branch of the museum ever since. It shows the home decor of the 19th century with the open fireplace and the smoke-blackened kitchen.
See also
literature
- Peter Albertin: Triesenberg House No. 19 (old No. 16) «Walserhaus». Building history report. Winterthur, July 1995, 62 pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The 400 year old Walser house. On the website of the Walsermuseum Triesenberg, accessed on June 28, 2019
- ↑ Jost Kirchgraber: The rural Toggenburg house and its culture in the upper Thur and Necker valleys between 1648 and 1798 . VGS Verlagsgenossenschaft, St. Gallen 1990, ISBN 978-3-7291-1056-4 , p. 12 .
- ^ Kurt Wanner: Walser (Walliser). In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein . December 31, 2011 .
- ↑ Armin Eberle, Meinrad Gschwend, Irene Hochreutener Naef, Robert Kruker: The farmhouses of the canton of St.Gallen . Ed .: Swiss Society for Folklore . tape 35.1 . Basel and Herisau 2018, ISBN 978-3-908122-98-2 , p. 268, 270 .
- ↑ Peter Albertin: Triesenberg House No. 19 «Walserhaus». Page 16
- ↑ a b Josef Eberle: Walser Museum Triesenberg. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein . December 31, 2011 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 7 '2.2 " N , 9 ° 32' 38.8" E ; CH1903: 759766 / 220618