Schlössli Heimenhaus
The Schlössli Heimenhaus in the municipality of Kirchlindach is a country house on the road from Herrenschwanden to Kirchlindach, near the Krebsbach Bridge. The building is considered an early example of a horseshoe-shaped mansion in the French style, almost unique among the small Bernese country estates.
construction
Already in the 12./13. A massive stone house stood there in the 19th century. Remnants of it can still be seen on the north-east corner of the house. Walls pierced by loopholes, up to 80 centimeters thick in the basement, have been preserved from the original building. The simple residential tower was extended to the west with an annex in the 16th century and covered with a hipped roof. The next conversion to a campaign in 1637 brought the two side wings, also provided with a hipped roof. This created a small courtyard enclosed on three sides. Today's vestibule was rebuilt around 1730 . The courtyard was built over on the ground floor and the southern front was closed. Inside, there is the open staircase with the gallery and banisters in the Regency style. On the mezzanine floor , Italian-style sandstone columns form a kind of loggia that serves as access to the apartments and the stairs to the upper floor. With the associated farm from 1831, the small castle is the most distinctive part of the Kirchlindach hamlet Heimenhaus.
history
In the 14th century, the von Lindenach family lived in the area of today's Kirchlindach . They owned goods in Herrenschwanden and Kirchlindach. Around 1612 the "Schlössli-Gut" is said to have belonged to one of Werdt , possibly Abraham von Werdt, the lord of Toffen Castle and builder of the Schlössli Zimmerwald . His son Johann Rudolf von Werdt is known as the next owner of the Heimenhaus. His daughters sold the estate, inherited in 1680, to the former governor of Wangen , Hans Konrad von Matthey, and his daughter Maria, the wife of Hans Jakob Lerber, Kastlan zu Wimmis . The estate remained in the possession of the Lerber until 1762 and was then sold to Karl Friedrich Bucher , the owner of the "Taube" country house on the Kleine Schanze in Bern . As security for debts, the property went to Captain Friedrich von Wattenwyl in 1775 , who died unmarried in 1799. He left Heimenhaus with his goods to his cousin Anna Magdalena Margarethe von Wattenwyl from Bremgarten Castle , the wife of Albrecht von Erlach, Herr zu Spiez. In 1800 she sold the property to the notary Johann Jakob Steiger, from whom the property came to the wine merchant Rudolf Walther. His heirs sold Heimenhaus to Christian König in 1824. Since then, the “Schlössli Heimehus” has remained in the family's hands, currently in the fifth generation.
literature
- Wolf Maync: Small Bernese country houses. Your owner story. Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7280-5361-9 . Pp. 50-52.
See also
Web links
- Anne-Marie Dubler : Kirchlindach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Hans Braun: Abraham von Werdt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '29.8 " N , 7 ° 24' 45.3" E ; CH1903: five hundred ninety-eight thousand and eighteen / 204507