Feel old walls and the breeze of earlier centuries on your skin – in the Ritterhaus Bubikon, the past comes to life. The guided tours for primary and secondary school pupils offer school classes a welcome change from their normal history lessons.
Power and faith, life and transience. What remains after death? Nobles from the Zurich Oberland region once immortalised themselves in tombs, coats of arms and foundations. But what do we know about them today and how would we like to be remembered?
The workshop ‘Carved in Stone’ focuses on various materials and forms of remembrance: stone gravestones, gold-embroidered textiles and commemorative images.
After the guided tour, participants will get hands-on: using chisels and stone to engrave their own names into small stone slabs. In doing so, they will experience first-hand what it means to ‘carve something in stone’ – and why this form of remembrance has endured to this day.
Duration: 120 minutes
Cost: CHF 200 excluding CHF 10 per person (material costs)
Suitable for children from Year 4 onwards
Experience history in the historic setting of the Ritterhaus in an interactive and captivating way. Our guided tours offer children and young people the opportunity to actively experience history and gain direct access to the past. The two tours are designed to be age-appropriate and are aimed at both primary and secondary school classes.
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: CHF 120
The tour of the Ritterhaus can be supplemented with a creative and practical activity.
Duration: 120 minutes
Cost: CHF 350
Suitable for: Years 1 to 3 of primary school
The Reformation was one of the major social upheavals that swept across Europe around 1520. But what was the main criticism of the reformers regarding the conditions at that time? How did the Reformation change different areas of people’s lives, and why does the movement also play such an important role in the history of the Bubikon Knight’s House? At the end, the pupils print using lead letters themselves.
Duration: 120 minutes
Cost: CHF 300
Suitable for: Year 6 primary school pupils, secondary school pupils (from 13 years on), adults