Ortsmuseum Schürhof Windisch

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Windisch

Aargau – Solothurn region

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Opening hours

By appointment (Apr.-Oct.)
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Ortsmuseum Schürhof Windisch
Dorfstrasse 14
5210 Windisch
Phone +41 (0)56 442 29 33
museum-schuerhof.ch

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Intro

The museum is housed in the buildings of the Schürhof, a farm first mentioned in 1273 as the Habsburg Meierhof Windisch.

The museum is housed in the buildings of the Schürhof, a farm first mentioned in 1273 as the Habsburg Meierhof Windisch. The exhibition includes equipment from agriculture, household and trade. There are workshops of old trades such as cooper, wainwright, carpenter, carpenter, shoemaker or blacksmith. In the residential house there is a living part with historical furniture. Special exhibits include the reconstructed Schürhof wine and oil press, the old hand-operated fire engine including hose cart of the Windisch fire department and old equipment of the Windisch municipality. Since the 2016 season, an exhibition on the history of fishing on the Aare and Reuss rivers has been attached to the 'Wasserschloss'. The Schürhoftrotte is mentioned in the chronicle from the 17th century onwards in changes of hands and inheritance divisions. It was a wine and oil grotto, i.e. besides grapes for wine also oil fruits were processed. The oil produced in the so-called 'Oele' was probably used mainly as fuel for lamps. In the vaulted cellar there are still beams of the trough, which was dismantled in 1785. The age determination of the oak beams resulted in a felling date of the oaks of approx. 1680-1690. The historical background provided the idea for the reconstruction of the wine and oil trough.

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