New Oberdiessbach Castle

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New Oberdiessbach Castle

The New Oberdiessbach Castle is a castle in Oberdiessbach , Canton of Bern , Switzerland .

It was a few meters south of the Old Castle , built in 1546 and owned by the von Wattenwyl family since 1647 , as a country seat in the style of the late French Renaissance from 1666 to 1668 for Albrecht von Wattenwyl (1617–1671), a colonel in French service King Louis XIV , built and still owned by the von Wattenwyl family.

The central wing has a high hipped roof , long chimneys and loggias . Rudolf von Tavel describes the sight of the castle with syne proud archers, de beautiful lattice and de Chemi, where, like chlyni towers, mighty roof waxes syne , Rudolf von Tavel describes in his German novel Der Frondeur . In front of the main facade is a baroque garden with a wrought-iron gate in the Régence style, to which avenues with a total length of 1 km lead. The interior of the castle from the construction period was supplemented by tapestries in the late 18th century .

Diessenhof country estate

Oberdiessbach Castle is the first purely French country residence in the canton of Bern and is considered the most important work of Bernese profane architecture in the middle of the 17th century.

The Diessenhof country estate was built around 1728 for a side branch of the family; both seats remained the property of von Wattenwyl.

bibliography

  • Jürg Schweizer (dir.), Armand Baeriswyl, Hans Braun, Georges Herzog, Barbara Studer Immenhauser, Die Schlösser in Oberdiessbach , Swiss Art Guide, Series 104/1033, Society for Swiss Art History 2018, ISBN 978-3-03797-367-7 , 100 pp.

Web links

Commons : Neues Schloss Oberdiessbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 50 '20.1 "  N , 7 ° 37' 33.9"  E ; CH1903:  614298  /  one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-eight