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About Fachwerk
The Fachwerk is an open-pored cultural center on the periphery of the Basel region, housed in a former farmhouse and Sundgau timber-framed building in the center of the village of Allschwil. The Fachwerk program consists of cinema, concerts, art and culture with guest performances and own productions. Among other things, the Fachwerk cooperates with the national theater and dance the national theater and dance promotion "Premio", the Stadtkino Basel, the film mediation "InCine", the concert series "Piano di Primo" concert series, the Allschwil cultural umbrella organization "pro cultura", the bookshop on the village square. The Fachwerk is sponsored by the municipality of Allschwil, the Office for Culture Canton Baselland, several foundations such as the Ernst Göhner Foundation, the Jaqueline Spengler Foundation, the GGG Basel and private individuals. Used as a cultural center and meeting place that brings generations together, the Fachwerk develops artistic, craft, scientific and educational concepts and forms, produces its own formats and documents forms, produces its own formats and documents them. The Fachwerk promotes the dialog between traditions and innovations and operates a building lodge for the arts. The Fachwerk maintains content-related, organizational, technical and financial partnerships in the region, the border triangle and internationally. the border triangle and internationally.
History of the Fachwerks
The half-timbered building is located on Baslerstrasse in the middle of a row of gabled buildings. The two-storey half-timbered house has a steep pitched roof. Its two-storey residential part is storeys and constructed from visible half-timbering. The window parapet walls of the gable front are adorned with St. Andrew's crosses, some of which are doubled. The attached restaurant section is slightly raised and offers space for an audience of fifty people. Built at the beginning of the 18th century as a farmhouse, the father of the artist Walter Gürtler was born here and after its use as a farmhouse it was used as a police station. The municipality acquired the former police station from the canton at a preferential price in 1958. canton at a preferential price, on condition that it be used for cultural purposes. In the event of the canton was granted the right to buy it back. On December 18, 1963 the municipality of Allschwil approved the loan for the purchase, restoration and furnishing as a museum and museum and cultural center.
The architect Paul Meyer from Basel removed the plaster from the façade. plaster, restored the interior and restored the visible oven. In August 1968, the museum was opened, which, as a museum of local history, provides a documentary overview of the cultural and historical past of the Allschwil and Schönenbuch countryside. Schönenbuch landscape. The museum was open on Sunday afternoons and was initially run by curator Dr. Martin Lusser and then taken over by a committee. Its president was dismissed by the municipal council at the time following a letter to the editor in the Allschwiler Wochenblatt. whereupon the entire commission resigned in protest and the museum was closed for cost-saving reasons.
The museum was closed on January 1, 2015 for cost-saving reasons following a decision in May 2014. With the idea of reopening the museum two years later with new sponsorship, the then then mayor Nicole Nüssli invited potentially interested parties and those previously involved in invited in February 2016. Via Tanja Bieg - even before the establishment of the cultural department Martin Burr campaigned for the property as a cultural center and offered the Fachwerk association, founded in 2015 Fachwerk association, founded in 2015, as a sponsor for interim use. In 2017, Esther Roth, Head of the Office for Culture Baselland, gave the opening speech in the garden of the of the Fachwerk for the recently rescued country cinema with the previous venues in Liestal (Sputnik in the Palazzo) and Gelterkinden (Marabu) and the new Fachwerk venue.
Our Mission, Vision and
Values
The Fachwerk offers cinema, concerts, art and culture under a timber-framed clay roof in the border triangle on the periphery of the Basel metropolitan region, to develop and move.
The Fachwerk accelerates global change towards local, sustainable arts.
The Fachwerk shares the following values:
Compassion, kindness, generosity, appreciation, integrity and independence
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