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The fire station building of 1916 is one of a small group of municipal infrastructure buildings that were all designed by the renowned Rapperswil architect Emanuel Walcher-Gaudy (1855-1926) during or shortly after the First World War. It has a formal language that is committed to the contemporary native style and, as a striking feature, it has a tower connected to the main building. The tower element is not a mere quotation from architectural history but is functionally conditioned. In the fire station building, the tower served to hang the water hoses.