Zunfthaus zum Rüden

(Also simply called the dog ) The dog house for the meeting house of the Society for Constaffel in the old town of Zurich. Built entirely detached and originally the water, it jumps towards the neighboring houses today Limmatquai of something. With his back to the 14th century ancient history it is one of the historically significant buildings in the district town hall in Zurich.

History

Originally the house was " for males » directly on the Limmat river. The building was a very modest timber and served the city at that time mistress, the abbess of the woman Münster pen as " coin " in which she let beat their coins. By order of the Council which is now urban mint was in 1348 the journeymen ( fellow community), " the formerly floating on the floor [Insert bottom ] have drunk upon the House of Lords of Lunkhofen » leave. Connected with this was the condition is that the ground floor of what was then built of wood bolt works building to be provided with stone walls and left to the city to use - the Zurich Council, it served until 1401 as a town hall. In these fellows it would have been a group of noblemen and wealthy merchants, who belonged to the Constaffel. The city of Zurich built the ground floor, an open deciduous Hall, timbered about a society of noblemen built a tavern in the 1348 to 1401 sometimes also met the Great Council, with its two hundred members. The house name " for males " appears for the first time in 1358 on an interest list of the Fraumünster, since 1401, the " tap room of the gentlemen to the male " is occupied.

On the Murerplan 1576 the house is south of the guild house to pick to identify directly on the Limmat river. Under the porch, the Reichsstrasse the Limmat went along. Its present form has the property received about 300 years ago, when the building was raised to its present height. Probably only since then dominates the top floor before half-timbered building on both sides of the bottom, about one meter thick walls of houses. His name, " male " owes the guild house a wolf-like hound and a symbol of the aristocratic hunting law, the lead Constaffler as a shield and guild crest.

1868 sold the " aristocrat society » the guild house to the city and broke up 1878. From the official election guild Constaffel had already in 1820 a " relaxed, laid joyful and hard-drinking circle of members ' formed which had formed around 1841 to the guild society and statutes gave the so-called " Sechseläutenplatz funds ". In the new legal status as an association 1899, today's " society Constaffel ". The latter acquired the house in 1937 " for males ." At the request of the city, a walk among the " arcs " was created limmat other, who adapted the appearance of male the surrounding houses on the Limmat Quay. Also included exterior renovations by the brothers Bräm and a redesign of the interior design by Andre Ammann, subject to the obligation to preserve the original buildings in late Gothic style and remove subsequent conversions. The impressive feature of the so-called 'Tavern - today's Gothic Hall in the same restaurant - is the magnificent, eleven feet wide vaulted wood ceiling with carved timber heads and the rich interior of the house with its renowned eponymous restaurant.

Pictures

View from the Town Hall (1898 )

Guild houses " zur Saffran " (left), " to pick " ( Kämbel ) and «to dogs ." On the far right the town hall, in the background the Grossmünsterplatz.

View from the southeast (2009)

View of the facade renovation 2012