Rümligen Castle

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Rümligen Castle
Rümligen Castle from the southeast (2011).

Rümligen Castle from the southeast (2011).

Creation time : around 1100
Conservation status: receive
Standing position : Noble
Place: Rumbly
Geographical location 46 ° 49 '45.4 "  N , 7 ° 29' 23.6"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 49 '45.4 "  N , 7 ° 29' 23.6"  E ; CH1903:  603,911  /  186461
Rümligen Castle (Canton of Bern)
Rümligen Castle

Rümligen Castle is a castle in the municipality of Rümligen , Canton of Bern , Switzerland . The castle, estate and park are privately owned and not open to the public.

history

Rümligen Castle was built at the end of the 11th century as the seat of the Barons von Rümligen on the eastern slope of the Längenberg above the upper Gürbetal . The oldest part is the keep , which is now crowned by a mansard roof. In 1515 Rümligen came to Burkhard Schütz and in 1634 to Hans Rudolf von Erlach.

In 1684 Rümligen was acquired by Bernese mayor Samuel Frisching from the Frisching patrician family. He had the residential buildings built around 1710 and the castle converted into a baroque palace. Since then, Schloss Rümligen has always been passed on in the family to this day. Johann Rudolf von Frisching (1761–1838), son of Franz Rudolf Frisching (von Schlosswil), came into possession of Schloss Rümligen through marriage to Elisabeth Sophie von Frisching (von Rümligen) (1773–1813). After his death in 1838 it fell to his daughter Sophie Rosine von Frisching and her husband Friedrich Ludwig von Wattenwyl .

From 1927 to 1980 the castle belonged to Elisabeth de Meuron-von Tscharner , daughter of Ludwig von Tscharner and Anna (née von Wattenwyl), from 1980 to 2012 her granddaughter Sibylle von Stockar-Scherer-Castell . At the end of 2015 it became known that Rümligen Castle was for sale.

construction

The building rises on an irregular quadrilateral, the northern tower, partly from the High Middle Ages, with seven floors, also has a rectangular floor plan. The plastered residential block from the late Middle Ages is attached to the keep, with a modern pent roof extension from 1615 . Rümligen Castle was first redesigned in the Baroque style in 1650 and its present-day appearance in 1709. The interior of the house was completely renovated in 1882, but it has retained surfaces from the Middle Ages and, in particular, wallpaper from the early 19th century on the third floor.

swell

Rümligen rule

literature

  • Barbara Braun-Bucher: The Bernese mayor Samuel Frisching (1605–1683). Literature, education, constitution and politics of the 17th century based on a biography . Stämpfli, Bern 1991, ISBN 3-7272-0495-8 (= Diss. Bern 1987).
  • Wolf Maync: Bernese residential castles. Your owner story . VDB, Bern 3. verb. A. 1981, ISBN 3-7280-5337-6 .
  • Bernhard Schmid and Franz Moser: Castles and Palaces of Switzerland , Vol. 10, Basel 1942, pp. 14-17.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Rümligen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rümligen rulership archives, court statutes from 1615 (privately owned)
  2. ↑ Hans-Ueli Schaad: The lady of the castle has died. In: Berner Zeitung of January 25, 2012, accessed on May 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Christoph Lenz: Lord of the castle wanted. Bernese Baroque Palace goes under the hammer. in: Blick from December 29, 2015, accessed on May 13, 2018.
  4. ^ Rümligen rulership archives, court statutes from 1615, title page (privately owned)