Münsingen Castle

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Münsingen Castle

The Castle Münsingen is a castle from the 16th century in the town of Münsingen in the canton of Bern .

Today's castle stands on the site of the former castle of the knight Johann Senn von Münsingen from the 13th century, which was destroyed by the city ​​of Bern . In 1550, Hans Franz Nägeli and his wife Rosina Wyttenbach had today's castle built and the old castle removed up to the level of the first floor. The course of the curtain wall can still be seen today from the semicircular shape of the floor plan and the garden walls. The castle was later rebuilt several times. The room known today as the “ von Steiger room” was furnished around 1770 with a sepia tiled stove by Wilhelm Emanuel Dittlinger , painted by Peter Gnehm . In 1826 Peter Vollmar Vissering bought the castle from the couple Franz Ludwig Sigmund von Steiger and Elisabetha von Steiger. In 1830 the castle was acquired by Alfred de Rougemont, who had the lower castle demolished in 1838. After two further changes of ownership, the castle passed to the State of Bern in 1877. From 1893 to 1895 the cantonal psychiatric clinic was built on the area belonging to the castle . A large farm provided food (milk, grain, meat) for this "madhouse" with 1,000 places. At the same time, he offered jobs for residents and patients. When the dairy farm and jobs were cut in 1977, the Münsingen community took over the entire area of ​​the castle estate.

literature

  • Ernst Burkhard: Village and rule Münsingen in the old days. A look back , Münsingen 1962.
  • Bernhard von Steiger (Ed.): Genealogy of the family von Steiger, Weiss, von Bern , Bern 1906.
  • Heinrich Türler and Emanuel Jirka Propper: The community center in the canton of Bern, Part II , Zurich 1922, p. LVII and plates 73–74.

Web links

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Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '30.8 "  N , 7 ° 33' 36.7"  E ; CH1903:  609268  /  191575