The vaulted cellar had already been built by the Roniger family when they were still running the home brewery in the Sonne restaurant in Magden. After the Magdener Gemeindeversammlung and the Aargau cantonal authorities approved the construction in 1867, the cellar was demolished and chiselled in 1868, eight years before the founding of the Feldschösschen. In 1872 he was expanded. The 16 meters deep in the final construction, up to 6 meters wide and in the summit to 3 meters high basement has obviously cost a lot. In a memoir about the life of Feldschlösschen founder Theophil Roniger, he is quoted as referring to Keller: "I buried the money I acquired at the time." Rock cellars had little temperature difference throughout the year For the breweries once a tremendous importance. Before the ice cream machine was invented at the end of the 19th century, the breweries had to plow each ice cream for beer production and storage from specially created ice floes in winter, then store it in cool cellars and use it for the warmer seasons. The Magden cellar was used until at least 1882, then held in Feldschlösschen the first ice machine feeder. In recent decades he was broke, and because of the mountain pressure he threatened to collapse last. In recent months, the cellar was repaired by the brewery Feldschlösschen in conjunction with the community Magden as a landlord and the cantonal village care. "The cellar can now be included in special brewery tours and thus forms another focal point of our brewery culture, which we attach great importance to at Feldschlösschen," explained Gaby Gerber, project manager for the refurbishment. As part of the second «Beer Culinarium», which will be held by Sportclub Feldschlösschen on Saturday, 5 August, the population will have the opportunity to visit the cellar.
Eat ice cream on doctor's orders
Sonnen »host Josef Roniger, the father of Feldschlösschen founder Theophil Roniger, asked the Magden community in 1867 to build the Felsenkeller in the" Enge ". The minutes of the municipal assembly of November 24, 1867, states that Mr. Roniger or his successors may use the cellar, but that the forest floor remains in the possession of the community. The minutes of the local assembly of October 4, 1868, state that the use of the cellar requires an annual "concession fee" of 5 francs. In December 1872, when the Municipal Assembly approved the extension of the cellar, it made the condition that "in the event of an emergency, ice must be given to every person in need of an ice cream". And: "On the instructions of the doctor, the ice must be administered at all times for cheap compensation."