Belp Castle

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Belp Castle (2011).

The Belp Castle or as Old Castle Belp known, a castle in the town of Belp in the canton of Bern .

history

Johann Ludwig Aberli , Belp Castle (1757).

After the Bernese had captured Belp Castle (on Belpberg ) in 1298 , sacked it and seized the Belp rule , they forced Ulrich von Belp into Bernese citizenship and allowed him to build a new dwelling entirely out of wood. This building, which was demolished in 1783, was called the wooden castle. The rule of Belp went to the Bernese Petermann von Wabern in 1383 . From the 15th to the 17th century, partial owners of the estate were members of the Gruber, vom Stein, Scharnachthal , Luternau and Moratel families. Johann Rudolf Stürler (1597–1665) finally becomes the sole baron of Belp. The later Bernese mayor Karl Emanuel von Wattenwyl acquired the baronial rule including the castle from Hans Georg von Muralt in 1720 . Wattenwyl's grandson Salomon Albert Karl von Wattenwyl sold the castle and the rule in 1810 to the newly created canton of Bern , after the rights of rule had already expired in 1798. Bern set up the office building for the newly created Seftigen district . Belp Castle served as such until December 31, 2009. It housed the government governor's office , the judicial authorities of the judicial district IX Schwarzenburg-Seftigen as well as an office of the district land registry IX and the debt enforcement and bankruptcy office.

Current usage

In June 2012 the community of Belp bought the castle from the canton of Bern. In the summer of 2014, the Gürbetal region music school was able to leave its old location (Hohburg school building in Belp) and move into the partially renovated castle. The school management as well as various rehearsal and concert rooms are housed in the castle. In addition, the old courtroom is located in the castle, which can be used for representative occasions. The culture commission as well as the local museum Belp used the premises for annual special exhibitions about local history.

Since spring 2019, there has been a telephone booth in the public palace garden that has been used as a swap library. The public bookcase is operated by the Belp Community Library .

construction

The manor house is described at the beginning of the 16th century as a stone huss on the Gürben in a tree garden . The alterations from 1554, 1631 to 1636/44 with extensions and towers are characteristic, and the manorial seat gradually became a palace. Belp Castle bears testimony to the importance of the private rulers who held the high and low jurisdiction here. The late Baroque expansion of two late medieval mansion buildings and their connection by means of the peristyle , which has been expanded today, make the entire Belp Castle complex. Remarkable components in the interior testify to the luxury of the private builders.

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Baron Belp:

literature

  • Manuel Kehrli: From the village to the civic community of Belp . Ed .: Burgergemeinde Belp. 2007, p. 9-15 .
  • Wolf Maync: Bernese residential castles. Your owner story . Bern 1980.
  • Bernhard Schmid, Franz Moser: Castles and palaces of Switzerland . tape 10 . Basel, 1942.
  • Friedrich Emil Welti: The barons of Belp-Montenach . In: Bern journal for history and local history . No. 7 , 1945, doi : 10.5169 / seals-240900 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Schloss Belp  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Mantel: Belp: A clear yes for your own castle with a public park. In: derbund.ch . Tamedia , June 18, 2012, accessed October 5, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Music school in Belp Castle - music school in the Gürbetal region. Accessed April 12, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Belp parish - Belp marketplace museum. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ From the phone booth to the book booth. In: Bäup.ch. April 2, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Maync 1980, p. 67.

Coordinates: 46 ° 53 '30.6 "  N , 7 ° 29' 57.2"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and four thousand six hundred and seventeen  /  193415