Stadtmuseum Rapperswil-Jona is a museum oflocal history andart inRapperswil,canton of St. Gallen inSwitzerland.
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The museum is situated in threeMiddle Ages buildings, remains of a former castle as part of the town walls of Rapperswil, as of today in the so-calledBreny house, akeep, and in theBreny tower and an intermediate section that was abattlement of the town wall atHerrenberg hill. The buildings are situated betweenSchloss Rapperswil,Stadtpfarrkirche Rapperswil andEngelplatz square.
Breny house and Breny tower are part of the remains of the northeastern town walls of the medieval city ofRapperswil. The buildings date back to early 13th century AD, when the lords of Russikon (Russinger) built aresidential tower respectively a smallcastle as servants (Ministerials) of theCounts of Rapperswil. In its present form, it was built in 1492 by the knight Hans ofLandenberg from theTöss Valley replacing the former seat of the lords of Russikon. The Landenberg family officiated in Rapperswil as mayors and councils to 1530. Subsequent occupants were from 1530 to 1660 the Göldlin family, then the Good family, and from 1758 the Breny family. The former castle with its 28 metres (92 ft) high residential tower at the so-calledHerrenberg ("castle hill") marked in the 16th century the urban expansion of theMiddle Ages city to the northeast. The buildings were part of the northeasterly town walls at the bay ofKempraten onLake Zürich shore heading to the so-calledHerrenbergtor gate (broken in 1848).[1]
The largely conserved residential facilities date back to the 16th century when the castle was owned by Thuring Göldli. TheGothic hall with beamed ceiling and flower garlands, like the other rooms in the initial stage of construction, is largely preserved. The living room is decorated with late Gothic and partly overpainted wall painting among them thecoats of arms of the Landenberg and Hünenberg families (as of 1492). The Breny room ("Breny-Stube") and the Landenberg room (as of 1503) are in their original condition.[1][2][3]
The very firstroses in Rapperswil blossom at the Breny tower and at theStadtpfarrkirche Rapperswil next to theSchloss Rapperswil because their medieval sandstone walls are exposed to the sun all through the year.
Under the patronage of the transport association (Verkehrsverein)Rapperswil-Jona, the museum was established in 1943 as "Heimatmuseum lokaler Geschichte und Kunst" (museum of local history and art). As a legacy of the sisters Paulina and Henrika Breny, the buildings, as of today commonly called "Breny-Haus" and "Breny-Turm", are situated at formerObere Halsgasse, and administrated by the city of Rapperswil. In 2008, some Rapperswil residents petitioned local authorities to evict thePolish Museum from its home in theRapperswil Castle, as two historical museum locations (Stadtmuseum and Polish Museum) estimated to be too expensive. The Polish Museum is conducting a petition campaign to retain the Museum in the castle;[4]Stadtmuseum will be kept respectively in 2010/11 renewed at its actual location.[5]
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In December 2009, the project "Janus" presented the results of an evaluation for public vote by the citizens of Rapperswil-Jona. The city museum will be renewed from January 2010 to autumn 2011, and therefore will be closed for visitors. Its historical intermediate section between Breny house and Breny tower will probably replaced by a purposive construction integrated into the historic street-scape betweenStadtpfarrkirche (parish church) andEngelplatz square. This new building serves both, as an exhibition space as well as connection between the two historical museum buildings. The formative north side of the town walls will be kept as it is. Investment and operating costs of around 5.6 million Swiss francs will be borne equally between local community and political community Rapperswil-Jona. Simultaneously with the realization of the project, the accumulated maintenance work on the facades, windows and roofs of the historic buildings and the town wall will be done.[5][6][7]
Along with temporary exhibits, main sights are the prehistoric andRoman archaeological finds, particularly from the extensive excavations atKempraten, the former RomanvicusCentum Prata. Other exhibits are medieval coat of arms of the city of Rapperswil, a goblet of Countess Elizabeth of Rapperswil, the late Gothic living hall and religious goldsmiths, including the mitre, the crosier, particulate monstrance from the monastery treasury of PremonstratensianRüti Abbey. The intermediate section (as of October 2009) is home to the Breny and Göldli rooms with antique portraits from the Renaissance, the Curti room of Rapperswil silk merchants from the 15th century and the Greith room. In the Breny tower there are a scale model of the city of Rapperswil showing the city as it was in 1800, further information on history and the city fortifications as well as examples of medieval weapons, pharmacy, shoe-making and kiln ceramics from Rapperswil.
The previous conventional presentation of the collection objects was replaced in 2012/12 by a multimedia "history experience", i.e., by visual and audible interaction with the visitors.
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The building is listed in theSwiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as aClass B object of regional importance.[8]
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