Museum Lindengut

The mansion “Villa Lindengut“ with its coach house and gardener’s residence is one of those representative country estates, built by wealthy families outside of Winterthur’s city walls. Embedded in a magnificent park, the buildings were erected in the classicistic style of architecture in 1787 by the entrepreneur Johann Sebastian Clais from Baden. A visit to the noble mansion with its historical interior is like travelling through time to the bourgeoise way of life before industrialization began. Decorative wooden panels from bourgeois town houses and painted baroque tiled (towered) stoves from local production allow the rooms to shine in splendour demonstrating the outstanding craftsmanship of the local manufactures of the time. Two exceptional museum exhibits are a vedute of the town (panorama) from 1648 and a model of the town from the beginning of the 19^th century, both revealing the old town’s development in great detail.