Burgistein Castle
The Burgistein castle is a castle in the municipality Burgistein in the canton of Bern .
history
The castle was built after 1260 by Jordan I von Thun , the founder of the von Burgistein family . In 1339 the castle was destroyed by the Bernese after the Battle of Laupen . According to the Bernese chronicler Konrad Justinger , Jordan III. Shot from Burgistein in the castle by the rifleman Ryffli .
The newly built castle came from the von Burgistein family, who died out in 1397, to Werner Münzer . In 1493 the castle came into the possession of the von Wattenwyl family . After Juliana von Wattenwyl's marriage to Emanuel von Graffenried , the castle passed into the possession of the von Graffenried family in 1714/15 .
The current facility was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. The castle is dominated by the mighty west building with a high hipped roof . A pillar-supported gallery is attached to it and a fountain flows through it. The smaller east building, built in the 16th century, follows. There is a library in this and the ballroom on the 2nd floor.
literature
- Hans Braun: Notables, patricians, citizens. History of the von Graffenried family , Bern 2012, pp. 73–75, 130–131.
- André von Graffenried (Ed.): Burgistein Castle. Back in the Gürbetal and in the middle of Europe, a documentary , Bern and Burgistein 2018.
- Wolf Maync: Bernese residential castles. Your history of ownership , Bern 1980, pp. 109–112.
- Heinrich Türler and Emanuel Jirka Propper: The community center in the canton of Bern, Part II , Zurich 1922, p. LIX and plates 77–78.
See also
Web links
- Holdings (pictures) in the Burgerbibliothek Bern
- Burgistein Castle at www.swisscastles.ch
- Pictures on www.andre-born.ch
- History of the Burgistein community
- History of Burgistein Castle
Coordinates: 46 ° 47 ′ 13.7 " N , 7 ° 30 ′ 18" E ; CH1903: six hundred and five thousand and sixty-seven / 181776