Zurlaubenhof

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The Zurlaubenhof from the west

The Zurlaubenhof (also St. Konradshof ) is a baroque manor in the city of Zug and the ancestral seat of the Zurlauben family , who worked in the mercenary sector from the 15th to the 18th century . It is considered a “building jewel of marked uniqueness” and has largely retained its original appearance.

The complex consists of a manor house built between 1597 and 1621 with St. Konrad's Chapel (consecrated in 1635), a tenant house (1645) and a two-storey loggia as an extension of the tenant house (1736). An overpass connects the manor house with the loggia and the white hall in the tenant house. On the third floor of the manor house is the paneled ballroom with wall and ceiling paintings.

history

The Zurlaubenhof with the St. Michaelskirche in the background

The Zurlaubenhof stands on the area of ​​a farm with meadows and vineyards that was originally known as the “Schildhof” or “Hof am Schild”. According to a document from the Kappel monastery from 1277, the field below the old St. Michaelskirche in Zug was called "Schilt". The place name "Schild" is likely to mean the elevation on which today's St. Michael's Church stands.

The owners of the Hof am Schild can be traced back to the beginning of the 15th century. In the 16th century it was split into several parcels. Probably the best north of the farm could also serve as vineyards. It was sold by Heini Müller to Captain Thomas Stocker in 1529. It is very likely that the manor house was built on this parcel from 1597. In 1616 Rudolph Stocklin, the last farmer who had still built the farm on the Schild independently, sold it to Ammann Conrad Zurlauben for around 2000 guilders .

In 1595 the Zurlauben bought their actual headquarters, the Weingartenhof on the site of today's post office in Zug. When Conrad Zurlauben died in 1629, both farms were laden with debts. His younger son Heinrich inherited the Schildhof. He was a captain in the French service and in 1642 married a wealthy woman from Solothurn. In 1645 he built the tenant house with a garden room in place of a farmhouse. He also died in 1650, heavily in debt. Five years later, the farm went to his nephew Heinrich Zurlauben-Speck, who in turn died in 1676 in debt. His brother-in-law and creditor Kaspar Dorer, governor of Baden, took over the farm. From Dorer's community of heirs, the farm fell to the family of Ensign Karl Josef Brandenberg.

In 1742 it was bought by Lieutenant Colonel Johann Jacob Kolin, whose first wife was a Zurlauben. He had the gallery expanded. After his daughter's marriage to General Beat Fidel Zurlauben , the court came into the possession of the last representative of his family. He also owned the Weingartenhof, which he sold in the same year. Beat Fidel Zurlauben always used to call the property "Château".

literature

  • Linus Birchler: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kanton Zug ( Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz ), II. Half-volume, Birkhäuser, Basel 1934, pp. 475–493.
  • Viktor Luthiger, senior: Kapelle und Hof St. Konrad , in: Zuger Kalender , 96th year, Zug 1951, pp. 36–40.
  • Franz Wyss: On the earliest building history of the Zurlaubenhof in Zug , in: Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft des Kantons Zug (ed.): Zuger Neujahrsblatt 1963 , pp. 7–21.

Web links

Commons : Zurlaubenhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Faessler: The history of a manor house , in: Zuger Zeitung , December 20, 2019, accessed on June 20, 2020.
  2. ^ Franz Wyss: On the earliest building history of the Zurlaubenhof in Zug , p. 7.
  3. ^ Franz Wyss: On the earliest building history of the Zurlaubenhof in Zug , p. 8.
  4. ^ Franz Wyss: On the earliest building history of the Zurlaubenhof in Zug , p. 9.
  5. ↑ Andreas Faessler: When the Bossards wanted to go to their rooms , in: Zuger Zeitung , October 25, 2017, accessed on June 20, 2020.

Coordinates: 47 ° 9 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 0"  E ; CH1903:  681742  /  224003