Allmendingen Castle (Switzerland)

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Allmendingen Castle

The Schloss Allmendingen is a castle from the 16th century in the municipality Allmendingen bei Bern in the Swiss canton of Bern .

history

Judging by the architectural style, the castle seems to have been built in the 16th century. A door on the tower bears the year 1607. In the 18th century the castle was expanded into a campaign by the mayor Isaak Steiger and his son Franz Ludwig Steiger .

On September 17, 1946, Winston Churchill visited Allmendingen Castle.

literature

  • Heinrich Türler and Emanuel Jirka Propper: The community center in the canton of Bern, Part II , Zurich 1922, p. LVIII and plate 76.

See also

Web links

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Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '59.7 "  N , 7 ° 31' 20.3"  E ; CH1903:  606,374  /  196168