Thun Castle

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View of the donjon from the southeast
Aerial view

The Thun Castle is a castle above the town of Thun , Canton of Bern , Switzerland .

The huge donjon was built around 1190 by Duke Berthold V von Zähringen . Around 1218 it went to the Counts of Kyburg , who added the top floor to the tower. Since 1375 it was the official seat of Bern and since 1888 it has housed a historical museum . The water well in the courtyard is 31.6 meters deep.

The so-called New Castle was built on the walls of older predecessor buildings east of the donjon in 1429 . This late Gothic building housed the offices and living quarters of the Bernese mayors . The Bernese Oberland Regional Court had its seat here until the end of 2009.

On September 21, 2006, the city council (legislature) decided to buy Thun Castle and a large part of the castle hill from the canton of Bern . At the end of June 2014, the facility was reopened after extensive renovation work . In the New Castle hotel with a restaurant and a conference center have been set up, the Knights' Hall in the tower can be rented for events.

literature

  • Anna Bähler, Jürg Schweizer: Thun Castle (= Swiss Art Guide. Volume 825, Series 83). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-85782-825-6 .
  • Gabriel Heinrich, Andres Moser: Castles of the Canton of Bern. Edition Ovaphid, Lausanne 1976.
  • Hans Gustav Keller: From the life of a Bernese bailiff. Karl Manuel, Schultheiss in Thun 1686–1692. In: New Berner Taschenbuch for 1931. pp. 143–194. doi: 10.5169 / seals-130049 .
  • Volker Herrmann, Leta Büchi, Regula Gubler: Thun, Castle. Prehistoric and medieval settlements and fortifications on the Schlossberg. In: Archäologie Bern / Archéologie bernoise 2015 (Yearbook of the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern 2015), Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-907663-48-6 . Pp. 98-101
  • Armand Baeriswyl, Heinz Kellenberger: Thun, castle. The Zähringische Donjon from around 1200. In: Archäologie Bern / Archéologie bernoise 2015 (Yearbook of the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern 2015), Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-907663-48-6 . Pp. 102-104

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell to the court of Thun Castle. In: Bernese Oberland. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  2. ↑ Thuner Schlossberg: Now the gates are opening. In: Berner Zeitung. June 27, 2014.

Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '36 "  N , 7 ° 37' 48"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred twenty  /  178775