Ritterhaus Bubikon
Ritterhaus Bubikon | |
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![]() Ritterhaus as seen from the northeast | |
General information | |
Architectural style | Commandery, a medieval monastery of the Knights Hospitaller |
Classification | Historic monument used also as a history museum, nearly completely reserved, conserved and renewed in 1947, and partially renewed in 1993/95, 2000 and 2011.[1] |
Town or city | Bubikon |
Country | Switzerland |
Coordinates | 47°16′00″N 8°49′41″E / 47.26667°N 8.82805°E |
Construction started | 1192 AD |
Bubikon Castle or Bubikon Commandery (
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History
Assumably in compensation of claims related to the
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The commandry's inhabitants was granted
Buildings
In 1936 respectively 1938 the Ritterhausgesellschaft (Ritterhaus society) took over the management of the building complex, and the society today provides the museum related to the castle's and the order's history. The buildings of the commandry were completely renewed in 1947, and the chapel between 1993 and 1995. In 2000 the museum was redesigned, and a herbal garden (German: Epochen-Kräutergarten) was established and the exterior partially renewed in 2011.[1] The adjacent farm and barn buildings are excluded from the Ritterhaus building complex, as they still are used as a privately cultivated farm.
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The Ritterhaus building complex consists of the commander's house, the rectory, the Schütte and Sennhaus buildings, the so-called Bruderhaus being the oldest building, the 12th-century chapel of St. John the Baptist (dated 1192 AD), as well as the adjacent farm and economic buildings. The brothers’ house (Bruderhaus) and the chapel are the oldest buildings of the commandery and were probably built in the early 1190s, assumably incorporating an older building (maybe a chapel) that was built by the Toggenburg family. The 14th-century Romanesque nave of the chapel was expanded by a Gothic chancel that was destroyed in 1819. The remains of Romanesque mural paintings date back to the first half of the 13th century. They illustrate the foundation of the commonly named Ritterhaus building complex by the Toggenburg and Rapperswil families, and display scenes of the live of Saint John the Baptist. The chapel was desecrated and secularised during the Reformation in Zürich. The main building (Haupthaus), serving as the commander's house and administration complex, and the adjacent wing (Ritterhausflügel) were added between the 13th and 15th century; after the Reformation it was the seat of the local governor, a city council member from Zürich. The representative rooms were used for official purposes, and therefore richly decorated in the Renaissance style in 1570. At the same time, the coats of arms of the Knights of Malta was painted onto the façade towards the courtyard. The servants' house (Sennhaus, Gesindehaus) was built around 1480 and rebuilt in 1570 for the purpose of the production of cheese.[5]
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herb garden on the southern side of the Gesindehaus building
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chapel and adjacent main building
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coats of arms of the order
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Gesindehaus
The commander's building houses the Ritterhaus history museum that was established in the 1940s. Its Hotz coin collection shows an assortment of more than 400 coins that give record of the Order and its Grandmasters from 14th to 18th century. The museum also comprises the collection of antique arms of Johann Jakob Vogel (1813–1862) who donated about 220 arms to the Ritterhaus Bubikon.[6] In 2011 the so-called Epochen-Kräutergarten ("epochal herb garden") opened to the public presenting medieval herbs from the ancient world on about 400 square metres (4,306 sq ft).[7][8]
Protection
Since 1959 the site has been under protection of the federal state.
Literature
- ISBN 978-3-03919-085-0.
- Markus Brühlmann / Michael Tomaschett: Johanniterkommende Bubikon «Kreuz und Quer». Ritterhausgesellschaft. Bubikon 2000. ISBN 3-9522014-0-5.
- Erwin Eugster: Adlige Territorialpolitik in der Ostschweiz. Kirchliche Stiftungen im Spannungsfeld früher landesherrlicher Verdrängungspolitik. Zürich 1991, ISBN 3-90527-868-5.
See also
- Reformation in Zürich
- Rüti Abbey
References
- ^ a b c "Die Ritterhausgesellschaft" (in German). Ritterhaus Bubikon. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "Bestätigung des Burgrechts des Johanniterhauses Bubikon". Rechtsquellenstiftung des Schweizerischen Juristenvereins: Rechtsquellen der Stadt und Herrschaft Rapperswil (mit den Höfen Busskirch/Jona, Kempraten und Wagen) (in German). Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ Kurt Schmid (2003-03-27). "Bubikon (Gemeinde)" (in German). HDS. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "The buildings". Ritterhaus Bubikon. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "Collections". Ritterhaus Bubikon. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "The herb garden". Ritterhaus Bubikon. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "Kräutergarten für das Ritterhaus" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. 2010-09-12. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "A-Objekte KGS-Inventar" (PDF). Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Amt für Bevölkerungsschutz. 2015-01-01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
External links
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