Hotel DuPeyrou
The Hôtel DuPeyrou is a mansion in the city of Neuchâtel in Switzerland .
Pierre-Alexandre DuPeyrou
The builder of the Hôtel DuPeyrou was Pierre-Alexandre DuPeyrou (1729–1794), born in Suriname in 1729 , the last offspring of a Protestant family from the south of France who , like many others, fled to Holland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . In 1748 DuPeyrou acquired Neuchâtel citizenship and from then on maintained close contact with the intellectual pioneers of the French Revolution . The wealth of DuPeyrou came from its two plantations in Suriname, where his father in high position at Court was. After the father's death, his mother married Monsieur de Chambrier from Neuchâtel, after which DuPeyrou and his mother moved to Neuchâtel. DuPeyrou was married to Henriette Dorothée de Pury (1750-1818). The marriage remained childless. DuPeyrou deserves the credit of having made the first edition of the writings of his friend Jean-Jacques Rousseau possible.
Hotel DuPeyrou
His manor house was built in the years 1764–1772. The plans were provided by the Bernese architect Erasmus Ritter (1726–1805). In 1799, five years after the death of Pierre-Alexandre DuPeyrou, the heirs sold the property to the de Pourtalès brothers , who sold the house to the Prince of Neuchâtel, Louis-Alexandre Berthier , in 1813 . The property then belonged to the banker Denis de Rougemont. In 1858 the city of Neuchâtel bought the manor house and had a museum set up in it in 1860 . While the art collection was housed in the residential building until it was transferred to the new museum, which was completed in 1885 , the building erected north of the manor house in 1862 was used for temporary exhibitions. Today the archaeological museum is housed there. A restaurant is now located on the ground floor of the Hôtel DuPeyrou . The most richly furnished rooms are used by the city of Neuchâtel for representational purposes.
External arrangement of the system
The Hôtel DuPeyrou, which once stood in the midst of vineyards and whose gardens reached as far as the Lac de Neuchâtel , and its outbuildings form a typically Baroque complex of functionally and aesthetically aligned parts, framed and summarized by the symmetrically designed garden . The courtyard above the main building is bordered by the former horse stable to the west and by the coach house and cellar building to the east. On Avenue Du Peyrou no. 12 a designated pavilion in the style of Louis XVI nor the former Ostabschluss of the garden, the slightly older style pavilion on the Faubourg whose southern corner points. The heavily rebuilt house across the street, on Rue de l'Orangerie No. 3, is the former greenhouse from which you once reached the shores of Lac de Neuchâtel , where DuPeyrou had the first trees planted on the lake promenade.
The architectural quality of the Hôtel DuPeyrou is best demonstrated on the three-storey south front. Erasmus Ritter managed to achieve a high degree of clarity and restrained elegance - based on the local, French-inspired building tradition - with rich orchestration of the facade with structural elements and architectural decoration.
Interior layout of the main building
The organization of the interiors corresponds entirely to the palace construction scheme that had developed in France in the course of the 17th century. In the axis of the vestibule is the salon facing the garden . The connection to the adjoining rooms on the side is formed by doors lying on an axis , following the example of French locks , which when opened allow a view through all rooms ( enfilade ). The side arrangement of the stairwell is also typically French . The showpiece of the interior is the "Grand Salon", a testament to the Rococo . The parquet floor is decorated with plant motifs and numerous mirrors on the walls create an illusionistic expansion of the space. The stucco ceiling was created by artists from the Bregenz Forest and the paneling with Louis XVI motifs was obtained from Paris . The faience tiled stoves in the manor house come from the Faience Manufactory Frisching .
literature
- Christian Renfer, Eduard Widmer: Castles and Country Seats of Switzerland , Zurich 1985.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Christian Renfer / Eduard Widmer: Castles and country seats of Switzerland. Ex Libris Verlag AG, Zurich, 1985, p. 87
- ^ Christian Renfer / Eduard Widmer: Palaces and country seats of Switzerland. Ex Libris Verlag AG, Zurich, 1985, p. 88
- ^ A b Christian Renfer / Eduard Widmer: Castles and country seats of Switzerland. Ex Libris Verlag AG, Zurich, 1985, p. 89
Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '38.1 " N , 6 ° 56' 0.6" E ; CH1903: five hundred sixty-one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight / 204886