Shepherd's house / Poligny Square

Overview:

The shepherd's house is a typical late medieval burgher or town noble house. The Höcklin family estate was built in 1586 on older foundations. The cellar vaults were created from rubble and quarry stone. The building housed the elementary school until around 1740, then the poorhouse.

From 1975 to 1986, it housed the municipal museum. The Schopfheim town museum is now housed in the house on Poligny Platz, which is overgrown with wild vines.

Elementary school, poorhouse, residential building, museum, café. Before that it was the property of the influential Höcklin family. (documented in Schopfheim since 1440). Apollinaris Höcklin's daughter Barbara married her husband Hans von Ulm in the town church of St. Michael in 1576. This celebration was recorded by Jost Rupp in a poem comprising several hundred Latin verses. It was published in Basel in 1576 - presumably the only copy is in the Basel University Library.

Stumbling blocks

Further information on the stumbling stones in front of the house at Wallstrasse 5 can be found HERE.