Kunstraum Engländerbau

The Engländerbau is an exhibition building in the Liechtenstein capital of Vaduz . It was built in 1933/1934 according to plans by the Schaan -based German architect Erwin Hinderer as the headquarters of a British lottery company and was the first steel -frame structure in the country.

The building is located in the pedestrian zone of Vaduz, north of the Liechtenstein Center and the Liechtenstein National Museum . The building has three floors and has a flat hipped roof. The steel skeleton building is complemented by brick masonry and is clad in travertine. There are seven shop windows on the ground floor facing the street, while 14 windows are regularly arranged on each of the upper floors. Since 1988/1989 all windows - with the exception of the offices - have been closed with metal plates. The north side of the building ends with a round stairwell that was designed to catch the light.

At the end of 1933, after the Liechtenstein Parliament had confirmed the applicability of the Swiss lottery law from January 1, 1934, as provided for in the customs union agreement of 1923, the English lottery company was liquidated. As a result, a dental factory and a radio station were housed in the building. In 1944, the State of Liechtenstein acquired the building and began using it as an exhibition space for the Princely Art Collection. The Liechtenstein Tourist Office was set up on the ground floor in 1952 and the Postal Museum in 1957, which has been exhibiting important documents of philately and postal history in the Principality of Liechtenstein ever since. From 1969 to 2000 the Liechtenstein State Art Collectionaccommodated there. After its move to the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein , the English building has served as an art space for changing exhibitions of contemporary art since 2002. The Treasury of Liechtenstein was established here in 2015. Since September 1, 1992, the building has been a listed building.

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