Bigwigs of the past to be honoured

Art lover Oskar Reinhart

Tribute will be paid to a number of big Winterthur personalities, whose work still makes the city what it is today, at a big ceremony in Winterthur’s Eulachhalle on 2^nd January.

Those paid tribute to will be the city’s industry pioneers Gebrüder Sulzer, namely Johann Jakob (1806-1883) and Salomon (1809-1869) who built a small foundry into a global company, Jonas Furrer (1805-1861) the first Federal President of modern Switzerland and the great art collector and patron Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965) to whom Winterthur owes its position as an art and cultural metropolis.

The event, which is open to the public, will be opened by the Winterthur Council candidate Natalie Rickli, will begin at 10.30, with the doors opening an hour earlier. After the event a small snack will be on offer.  

The hall is a 10 minute walk from Winterthur Bahnhof in the direction of Winterthur FC’s ground. A regular shuttle bus leaves from the trainstation from 9:15am tuntil10:30am.