Uhrenmuseum zum Rösli

The Watch Museum to Rosli is a Clock Museum in Zurich.

Description

The Watch Museum to Rosli there is an exhibition of approximately 500 table, wall and floor clocks from between 1450 until 1950. Collection of the Foundation donors Marta Gisler and Hans Neufeld is exhibited on two floors. The collection of Marta Gisler is mainly devoted to Swiss watchmakers, and includes a large number of wooden wheels and iron clocks. Hans Neufeld's collection includes a large number of Renaissance watches.

History

The house to Rosli

1803 was a Oekonomiegebäude at the Röslistrasse 46. This house belonged to the former mayor and Cantonal Zangger. Because he wanted to sell the house he built it in 1856 to a school house and offered to the building of the city at a price of CHF 11'000. -. The congregation did not have enough money, a corporation was formed, 220 registered shares of CHF 50 - brought forth.

On the ground floor the schoolroom, which offered up to 50 students place was. On the top floor, the teacher asked his students additional space for the handmade lessons available. He himself used the middle floor as apartment. But soon the house was too small and the school was forced to move. Therefore, the municipality sold the house in 1887 and the new owner was a primary school teacher Johann Gisler. Even today lives his granddaughter Marta Gisler here.

The collections

Already the father of Marta Gisler, also a teacher, was a passionate collector. At the beginning of stones stood with a variety of colors and patterns, he became increasingly interested in iron clocks. The same passion has been transferred by him to his daughter Marta Gisler, which used the legacy over the years and expanded. In the 1960s, Marta Gisler Hans Neufeld met, he is also a passionate watch collector.

Museum foundation

Gisler and Neufeld founded in 2003, the Foundation " collection of watches Hans Neufeld and Martha Gisler " to make their collections to share to the public. The home of Marta Gisler became the Watch Museum. To realize the project, the " Rosli House " was rebuilt by the construction business by Hans Neufeld in 2005 and renovated. Hans Neufeld died before the opening of the Museum of heart failure at the Röslistrasse. His sons Peter and Ronald and Marta Gisler completed the Museum with the support of a local watchmaker.

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