Schwarzenburg Castle

Schwarzenburg Castle.

The Black Castle is a castle from the 16th century in the town of Schwarzenburg in the Swiss canton of Bern . As an exemplary manor house of the 16th and 17th centuries, it is a monument of national importance. The castle has served as the seat of the Schwarzenburg district administration for 430 years .

history

The Grasburg rule was sold in 1423 by the Counts of Savoy to the cities of Bern and Freiburg in Üechtland . In place of the remote castle in 1573–1575 in the village of Schwarzenburg, they had a new, comfortable castle built for their bailiff, alternately a Bernese and a Freiburg resident. In 1798 the previous common rule came to Bern alone.

History of architecture and art

Schwarzenburg Castle (northwest view)

Schwarzenburg Castle is characterized by the three-storey, brick floor under a cripple hipped roof , the accentuated gable facade and the eaves-side polygonal stair tower . As a special feature and as an architectural mark of dignity, the palace was given a square walled courtyard with two striking corner turrets in front of the main facade, which only symbolize defensibility. Schwarzenburg embodies the canonical type of manor house in the 16th and 17th centuries, supplemented by features of the " castle romanticism " popular at the time . The house has been spared major interventions in facades, basic structures and furnishings, not least thanks to its particularly robust construction.

Web links

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

Official website of Schwarzenburg Castle
Photos and information about Schwarzenburg Castle on swisscastles.ch

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Text and images are partly taken from the public domain ( Art. 5 URG) divestment concept of October 26, 2007 of the Office for Land and Buildings of the Canton of Bern, p. 24.

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