Guild room (Aarau)

Guild room

The Zunftstube is a building in the old town of Aarau in Switzerland . It is located at Pelzgasse 19, is used as a restaurant and at the beginning of the 19th century temporarily served as the seat of the city authorities. The building is a cantonal monument.

history

The exact year of construction is not known, but it may have been the end of the 17th century. When Aarau was temporarily the capital of the Helvetic Republic in 1798 , the house was made available for administrative purposes. In 1803, the government and parliament of the canton of Aargau moved into the Aarau town hall , which the city had left for lack of suitable buildings. The city authorities initially switched to the house in the castle garden , but then moved to Pelzgasse 19 in 1804. The council chamber, chancellery and district court were housed here. After the completion of the cantonal government building in 1819, the city authorities were able to take over the town hall again.

From 1828 to 1839 the building served as a restaurant, and again without interruption since 1875. The current name "Zunftstube" has been in use since 1890. It goes back to the pictures that were attached at the time, depicting guilds . The current user of the Zunftstube is the Mexican restaurant "El Camino".

architecture

The four-storey building stands in the southeast corner of the old town and was built in the late Gothic style. A mansard roof with a turret towers over the surrounding houses and serves as an eye-catcher. The facade is not structured, the windows and the front door have cornices with triangular gables. To the left of the ground floor there is a passage to the «Graben». The interior decoration includes a stucco ceiling on the second floor made by Johann Ulrich Schnetzler in 1723 , on which allegories of war and peace are depicted.

literature

Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I, districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948, p. 100-101 .

Web links

Guild room in the inventory of the canton of Aargau
Restaurant El Camino (current user)

Individual evidence

↑ Barbara Schnetzler: Johann Ulrich Schnetzler . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 279–285 ( PDF, 329 KB )

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[1] Barbara Schnetzler: Johann Ulrich Schnetzler . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 279–285 ( PDF, 329 KB )