Pfistern Guild Hall
Also known as Zunfthaus zu Pfistern
1578
Renaissance
government
Lucerne's bakers and millers bought this Kornmarkt property in 1408 and had set up their guild room in it by 1421; the house standing on it today went up between 1574 and 1578, built essentially in stone with only isolated sections of…
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Timeline
- 1894
Seraphin Xaver Weingartner painted the facade in 1894 with grapevines hung with the coats of arms of 59 guild members, assisted by Oskar Limacher and Emil Segesser. The commission was part of a wider revival of facade painting in Lucerne's…
Seraphin Xaver Weingartner
- 1910
In 1910 the house was raised by a full story and the interior wholly rearranged, which covered over the timber framing that had been visible on the upper wall until then.
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- Karlheinz Klingbeil from Germany · CC BY 4.0
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