Halengut

Halengut, or Lentulusgut in Herrenschwanden

Viktor Karl von Büren with family

The Halengut , also called Lentulus-Gut , is a small country house in Herrenschwanden , Kirchlindach municipality on the main road 236 Bern - Aarberg. It is noted on historical maps with the nearby farm with the name on the Vorderen Halen .

history

The house was built around 1770 as a mansion for the farm by its owner Viktor Karl von Büren , Baron von Vaumarcus, bailiff of Aarberg and mayor of Aarberg and mayor of Unterseen, and named Sonnhalde. His widow sold the property to the captain and notary Franz Ludwig Küpfer in 1780 . His son inherited it in 1814 and sold it to Anna Esther von Rodt in 1817 , who sold it to Captain Samuel Friedrich Zehender a year later . In 1831 Rupertus Scopio Lentulus (1775–1845), captain in the French service and his son Karl Rudolf von Lentulus (1806–1884) acquired the property. The general of the same name, Frederick II of Prussia, the owner of the Bern Monrepos Campagne, comes from the older line. The widow of Rupertus, the bourgeois Maria Magdalena Eymann, sold in 1846, one year after his death, to the notary Johann Hähni and subsequently the now Lentulusgut, now called Lentulusgut , came to the farmer Gottfried Leuenberger after many changes of ownership in 1918. In 1930 it was bought by his son-in-law Johann Eichenberger who sold it to his nephew Alexander Ruchti-Leuenberger in 1965. Since then, the property has remained in the family ownership of the Ruchti family. The associated farm belongs to the Sahli family.

The main road to Aarberg, which runs close by, separates the Halengut from the new construction zone to the south of it. In the years after 1938 the painter Max von Mühlenen lived and worked there . In the novella Gotte und Götteli , Rudolf von Tavel describes the Halegut as the old seat of the Rittmeister Lentulus.

literature

Wolf Maync: Small Bernese country houses. Your owner story. Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7280-5361-9 . Pp. 42-43.
Rudolf von Tavel: Gotte and Götteli. Bern German Novelle, Bern, Verlag Francke AG, 1906
Helene von Lerber: Bernese country estates from Rudolf von Tavels works , Bern 1943. Page 9, 29.

Web links

Commons : Halengut - collection of images, videos and audio files

Anne-Marie Dubler : Herrenschwanden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Christoph Zürcher: Karl Rudolf von Lentulus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Genders of the Lentulus families from bernergeschlecht.ch accessed on March 9, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ The sources in Maync, von Tavel and Zürcher in the HLS contradict one another. Maync incorrectly calls General Robert Scipio L. the grandfather, he was rightly the son of great-uncle Caesar Josef L. (1683–1744). Von Tavel confuses the Rittmeister Rupertus Scipio L. with that of the younger line.

46.974884 7.420431Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '29.6 " N , 7 ° 25' 13.6" E ; CH1903: 598615 / 202646

[1] The sources in Maync, von Tavel and Zürcher in the HLS contradict one another. Maync incorrectly calls General Robert Scipio L. the grandfather, he was rightly the son of great-uncle Caesar Josef L. (1683–1744). Von Tavel confuses the Rittmeister Rupertus Scipio L. with that of the younger line.