Schadau Castle

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Schadau Castle on Lake Thun
Schadau Castle from the air

The Schadau Castle is a castle south of the outflow of the Aare from Lake Thun in the city of Thun , Canton of Bern , Switzerland .

It is located in the Schadaupark , an English garden , in which the Wocher Panorama is also set up, and was built for the banker from 1846 to 1854 according to plans by Pierre-Charles Dusillon in a historicist mixed style of Tudor Gothic and the New Renaissance based on the Loire castles Abraham Denis Alfred de Rougemont built on the site of an old country house.

It has belonged to the city of Thun since 1925 and housed the Swiss Gastronomy Museum until the move to Schloss Hünegg in Hilterfingen at the end of 2017 . Between 1972 and 1992, the palace facades were extensively renovated by the city's own stone carving team.

After one and a half years of renovation, Schadau Castle will reopen its doors in June 2019. The castle currently offers nine individual rooms, a restaurant and a wine and port wine bar.

A garden railway has been operating in the park since 2009 .

literature

  • Steffen Roth: "The Riviera on Lake Thun". The Schadaupark near Thun and its importance for the region in the 18th and 19th centuries . In: Die Gartenkunst  9 (2/1997), pp. 349–368.

Web links

Commons : Schadau Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schadaubahn


Coordinates: 46 ° 44 ′ 46 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 14"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred seventy-five  /  177233