Sälischlössli

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Sälischlössli

The Sälischlössli (formerly Neu-Wartburg or Schloss Wartburg-Säli ) is a small castle with an excursion restaurant in Starrkirch-Wil near Olten in Switzerland , which was created in 1870/71 through the expansion of a castle ruin. The building is located on a platform with a terrace and presents itself as a romanticized residential tower cube with a crenellated wreath and oriel tower as well as a slim staircase tower. The castle ruins from around 1260 and the restaurant from 1870 are classified as B objects under cantonal monument protection .

history

Around the year 1260, the Lords of Ifenthal, one could Ministerialengeschlecht serving the Counts of Frohburg , on the Engelberg high above the Aare Valley , the castle built New Wartburg. About 150 meters further south, the Alt-Wartburg was built around half a century earlier . The new building was probably related to the split into two lines of Ifenthaler. In the middle of the 14th century, Neu-Wartburg came into the possession of the lords of Büttikon , who were related to them , and from 1379 it belonged to the Hallwylers .

When the Confederates conquered Aargau in 1415, Bernese troops burned down the two Wartburgs. The Hallwylers let the old Wartburg fall into disrepair, but repaired the new Wartburg. In 1539 the city of Solothurn acquired the Neu-Wartburg and the associated lordship from the Hallwylers. From 1547 to 1846 the Neu-Wartburg was used as a fire station. The popular name Sälischlössli comes from the Sali fire watchdog family, who were in office until 1774. The castle fell into disrepair and was bought by the Olten community in 1863 .

On the initiative of Niklaus Riggenbach , the "Säliclub" was established in 1869, with the aim of rebuilding the ruins. According to plans by Paul Reber , the Sälischlössli was built in 1870/71, in accordance with the fashion taste of the time and without regard to the existing building fabric in a historicizing, late-classical Picturesque style. During the Second World War, there was an aircraft observation post in the Sälischlössli.

From 2001 to 2003 the restaurant was run by Anton Mosimann . Since 2006 it has been possible to get civil weddings in several castles in the canton of Solothurn. One of these castles is the Sälischlössli. Since March 2016, the Sälischlössli has been open again from Wednesday to Sunday after it was temporarily closed.

literature

  • Bruno Amiet : The castles and palaces of the canton Solothurn: The castles and palaces of Switzerland, Bd. III. Basel 1930.
  • Thomas Bitterli-Waldvogel: Swiss Castle Guide. Basel, Berlin 1995.
  • Eduard Fischer, Otto Allemann: Solothurn castles. 1962.
  • Andreas Hauser: Inventory of Newer Swiss Architecture (INSA), Volume 7: Montreux, Neuchâtel, Olten, Rorschach . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-280-02320-3 , p. 381 .
  • Gottlieb Loertscher: Säli-Schlössli and monument preservation. In: Heimat und Volk 7 (1964), No. 5/6.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles of Switzerland, Vol. 8: Cantons of Lucerne and Aargau. Zurich 1982.
  • Max Studer: On the recent architectural history of the Wartburg-Säli Palace. In: Heimat und Volk 7 (1964), No. 5/6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Studer: A military observation post on the Säli. In: Heimat und Volk , 7 (1964), No. 5/6.
  2. ↑ Castle weddings . Canton of Solothurn, civil registry office. Retrieved February 14, 2019.

Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '5.9 "  N , 7 ° 55' 9.1"  E ; CH1903:  636 321  /  242791