Rathaus Aarburg

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Le château en bref

The Rathaus in Aarburg, Städtchen 37, stands in the old town, on the Aar side, next to the Scheurmann-Haus of 1750 and the houses of the riverside row. The present building dates from 1828: it was built to serve as a town hall and, on its upper floors, as classrooms, while the ground floor housed a commercial hall. After the opening of a large school in the Landhaus district in 1903–1904, the building was converted from 1905 for municipal administration. In 1943, the municipality acquired the neighbouring house, the Scheurmann-Haus, intended for the local museum founded in 1945, and had a passage opened on the ground floor linking it to the Rathaus; the town hall's hall now serves as the hall of the Museum Aarburg. A glazed, bridge-like passage on two levels connects the Rathaus to the adjoining L-shaped building. The building is listed in the inventory of protected monuments of the canton of Aargau, and the municipality owns it.