Campaign Rubigen
The Campagne Rubigen is a 1728-built country house at Thunstrasse 23 in the municipality Rubigen in the Canton of Bern.
Building history
The campaign was created in 1728 with a hipped roof , two symmetrical wing pavilions and an entrance portico with square stone pillars . This included a farm with impact. In 1894, not far from the north-western corner of the impact, a water collector with a hydrant pipe was built up to the manor house. The turbine water fed the extinguishing water pond in the village. In 1902 the farmhouse burned down and was rebuilt as a gable-sided multi-purpose house with Ründi in ring construction with brick infills. In 1953 the canton road was rebuilt, whereby trees were felled in the area of the Schlössli, the garden hall between the road and the Schlösschen had to be removed and the retaining wall demolished and replaced with a new one. On June 28, 2014, the newly created sculpture park was opened after six months of renovation.
Owner story
Emanuel von Rodt - Willading died in 1728 and bequeathed the Rubigen estate to his son, salt director Anton Rodt- Kirchberger , who had the campaign built on it. In 1753 the property went to Samuel Fischer von Hunziken and in 1762 to his eldest son Samuel Fischer - von Graffenried , Welschseckelmeister and later governor of Lenzburg . The manor, which his widow had withdrawn in 1791 , was bought in 1795 from the estate of Johann Rudolf Fischer, Landmajor and Schaffner zu Hettiswil , via his heirs to the Rubigen-based Freiweibel Hans Stettler, then owner of the Zaunackgut in Rubigen. Christian Viktor von Graffenried auctioned by his heirs in 1801 the Lord floor, "on the great road from Bern to Thun» with barn , wood shed and storage .
In 1817 the estate was taken over by military paymaster Abraham Karl Ludwig von Wattenwyl , major general in British service, citizen and councilor of Bern. He rented out the Rubigen campaign to Johann Ludwig Wurstemberger and his wife Sophie de Larrey. Abraham Karl Ludwig died in 1836, his widow Anna Margaritha Sophie von Wattenwyl- von Tavel , a daughter of Major General Georg Ludwig von Tavel von Lutry and Villars, died a year later. A quarter of the campaign went to their sons Ludwig Friedrich, Ludwig Heinrich, Albert Rudolf Eduard and Emanuel Rudolf Ludwig von Wattenwyl. In 1844 a distant cousin, the rich Captain Ludwig Emanuel von Wattenwyl-Ougspurger, bought the Rubigen Campagne from them. In 1862 he ceded the local goods to his daughter Johanna Catharina Charlotte Julie von Wattenwyl-von Wattenwyl, who was married to a previous co-owner, Emanuel Rudolf Ludwig von Wattenwyl. After being widowed for 22 years, the estate passed to her heirs in 1902, the daughters Sophie Rosalie Johanna Maria von Graffenried and Anna Sophie Johanna von Steiger , her granddaughter Maria Johanna Margaretha von May and the three children Elisabeth, Franz and Erwin of their deceased son Eduard Friedrich Ludwig von Wattenwyl. They decided to sell the Rubigen campaign to their widowed sister-in-law, Aunt Cécile Mathilde Margaretha von Wattenwyl. Four months later she got her second marriage to Emanuel Rudolf Alexander von Tavel, brother of the poet Rudolf von Tavel , and brought him the Rubigen property. Until 1888 he had lived as a farmer in America.
In 1903, Cäcilia Margaretha von Wattenwyl-von Steiger and her daughter Maria Johanna Margaretha von Wattenwyl sold the felling goods to the lessee Christian Wüthrich. One condition of the sales contract was: "No industrial or commercial establishment may be built on the sold property or individual parts of it that would cause fear of the smuggling and spread of livestock diseases ( epidemics ) or other damage to cattle owners in the area". The logging goods came by inheritance to Ernst Karl Hess in 1943 and to his son Professor Hans Hess in 1968 . Rudolf von Tavel tells of Campagne Rubigen that Aunt Jenny von Wattenwyl, as an original personality, contributed to making his youthful years happy and sunny. She kept an open, hospitable, and sociable home. There he gained insight into the Bernese country squire "simple, cheerful", which dealt with agriculture and the military. His brother Albert von Tavel reports on his vacation visits to Unggle Ludi z'Rubige and writes a. a .: The Unggle Ludi isch e tangible Ma gsi vo gueter Gattig, thorough connoisseur of Burewäse, Grand Council and member of the State Economic Commission and commander of the Konolfinger Battailon, e Respaktpärson to änen use .
In 1924 the Rubigen campaign was bought by Margarita von Fellenberg-von Wattenwyl from Oberdiessbach Castle , who had been married to Karl Gottfried Edmund von Fellenberg since 1913. He died in 1949 and his widow sold Rubigen with the barn and other buildings in 1953 to the canton of Bern , from which Herbert Ottfried Kohlund acquired it less than four months later. Herbert Ottfried Kohlund, whose father, Ekkehard Kohlund actor and director of the Bern City Theater, also lived in Rubigen until his death. Father and son devoted themselves to painting in their free time, and both artists delighted their guests with beautiful picture exhibitions. Ekkehard Kohlund died in 1974. In 1983 the property was inherited by the widow Katharina Kohlund-Elsässer. In 2013, the Kohlund-Elsässer heirs sold the campaign to Housi and Barbara Knecht, the current owners of the property.
literature
- Hermann Bichsel: Rubigen Place and Landscape , 2001, pp. 301–302.
- Wilhelm Haldi: Rubigen Place and Landscape , 2001, p. 220.
- Wolf Maync: Small Bernese country houses. Your owner story. Bern 1983, pp. 92-94.
Web links
- Website Housi Knecht with pictures of Campages Rubigen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hansruedi Lerch: Kohlund, Ekkehard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 46 ° 53 '48.1 " N , 7 ° 32' 45" E ; CH1903: 608170 / one hundred and ninety-three thousand nine hundred sixty