Native name | Haus zur Sonne |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hotel |
| Founded | 1483 |
| Headquarters | Marktgasse 13/15, 8400 Winterthur , Switzerland |
| Website | www |
Gasthaus Sonne or Haus zur Sonne is a historic restaurant in Winterthur, canton of Zurich, Switzerland, first written record about it is from 1483. [1] The building is one of the oldest inns in the city and is classified as a cultural asset of regional importance.
A restaurant, or an eatery, is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services, and some offer only take-out and delivery. Restaurants vary greatly in appearance and offerings, including a wide variety of cuisines and service models ranging from inexpensive fast food restaurants and cafeterias to mid-priced family restaurants, to high-priced luxury establishments.
Winterthur is a city in the canton of Zürich in northern Switzerland. It has the country's sixth-largest population, estimated at over 108,000 people, and is the ninth largest agglomeration with about 138,000 inhabitants. Today Winterthur is a service and high-tech industrial satellite city within Greater Zürich, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of downtown Zürich, and only 20 minutes by train.
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country situated in western, central and southern Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. The sovereign state is a federal republic bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global cities and economic centres Zürich and Geneva.
Contents
The Gasthaus zur Sonne already existed in the Middle Ages and was rebuilt in 1557. The three-part staff window, which is still visible on the first floor, and the hall-like large dining room behind it, with a wooden beam ceiling, are probably from this period. In 1670, the owner of the hotel took extensive structural changes. In 1800 the building passed into the possession of the Ziegler family, who sold it to the consumer association in 1875. It set up its headquarters in the building and operated a shop on the ground floor that sold seafish from 1907, a cheap alternative to the then comparatively expensive meat. From 1925 to 1975 a cooperative bookshop was run on the ground floor.
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages.
The Winterthur Mittelschulverbindung Vitodurania, founded in 1863, used the «Sonne» since 1892 as the headquarters. The Altherrenverband of this connection founded the association Vito-Haus to the sun in 1999, who bought the building in the same year and has managed since then.
