Campagne Thalgut

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Campagne Thalgut, the manor house with a stair tower

The Campagne Thalgut is a historical country house in Ittigen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

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The proximity to the city and the sunny slopes of Ittigen prompted Bernese patricians to build country estates in the 17th and 18th centuries (including Mannenberg in Ittigen, Sandhof and Lindenhof in Worblaufen and Thalgut). For the same reason, the building site and the residential area are still very popular today and that is why the manors were given up in the course of the last century and the agricultural land was completely built over. The Thalgut with its old buildings and the green courtyard is like an oasis in the midst of modern commercial and residential buildings. The Talgut Center with its shops and restaurants below has replaced the historic Badhaus restaurant and forms a new village center.

History of the Thalgut

In 1367 knight Johann II von Bubenberg , Lord von Spiez and former mayor of Bern , gave the Mat Thal to the brothers Cuno and Peter von Seedorf . In 1672 it was mentioned in a document in the State Archives of the Canton of Bern that Niklaus Tachselhofer had acquired a Gütli in Thal bim Badhus from Peter Rentsch and that he would like to increase it with other pieces and improve it with a number of deceptions . Niklaus Dachselhofer , bailiff of Yverdon and mayor of Bern , continuously enlarged the estate in the following years. After his death in 1670, his son of the same name took over the Thalgut. Niklaus Daxelhofer (1634–1707) himself in high offices (Grossweibel, Hofmeister in Königsfelden , member of the Small Council and Deutschseckelmeister ) exchanged the Thalgut in 1677 for the rule of Utzigen with the Venner Samuel Jenner (1624–1699). In 1651 he was in the Grand Council, Vogt zu Wangen an der Aare, in 1671 in the Small Council, and was the builder of the Council and Venner zum Mittellöwen . He was the builder of the Thalgut in its current form. The executive architect was his nephew Samuel Jenner .

The unfavorable exchange (magnificent castle for a medieval stick) induced the council's builder to renovate and add to his new property. For the castle with its external stair tower, a rather outdated architectural style was used at the time it was built. Probably based on the backward-looking views of the client as a city architect. At that time, the French-influenced style was already modern, such as the Oberdiessbach Castle with its internal staircase and large salon facing the garden. The half-hip roof with the ründi , which was removed during the last renovation, corresponds to the type of the Bernese manor in the 16th and 17th centuries. Inside, central corridors on each floor opened up the richly furnished rooms. The horse barn, the utility building, the furnace house and a small pigsty were also built. After the death of Samuel Jenner in 1699 the property went to his son of the same name and in 1706 to Gabriel Frisching, in 1735 to his son Albrecht Frisching and in 1748 by exchange to Karl Emanuel Jenner, who had to sell the property in 1772 due to financial difficulties. The brothers Peter, Kirchmeyer and choir judge in Bolligen, and Hans Juker, choir judge in Ostermundigen, took over the debts on the property and Hans became the sole owner two years later. The estate has remained in the family ever since.

In 1971 the last agricultural business operated by a tenant was closed. The fields and meadows had been built over with residential and commercial buildings. For this, the manor buildings could be extensively restored and made available for modern living purposes.

In a watercolor by Johann Ludwig Aberli from 1770, the court ensemble is shown in its present form. The castle and the other buildings are also listed on a survey report from 1824.

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literature

  • Hans Gugger: Ittigen, a young community with an ancient history. Ittigen municipality 1998, ISBN 3-7272-9277-6 .
  • Wolf Maync: Bernese residential castles. Your owner story. Bern 1980, ISBN 3-7280-5328-7 .
  • Wolf Maync: Small Bernese country houses. Your owner story. Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7280-5361-9 .
  • Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen : Report on local history of the canton of Bern .
  • Heinrich Türler and Emanuel Jirka Propper: The community center in the canton of Bern, Part II , Zurich 1922, p. LXVII − LX and plate 80.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne-Marie Duble: Ittigen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ The Schermenmühle and the Thalgut , watercolor, Johann Ludwig Aberli, Bernisches Historisches Museum .
  3. ↑ Surveying excerpt from geometer R. Fisch from 1824 for the Juker brothers , private property.

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '29.9 "  N , 7 ° 29' 1.7"  E ; CH1903:  603 436  /  202 658