Wartenfels Castle (Lostorf)
The Wartenfels Castle is an old manorial group of buildings with a small park on the hill west of the village of Lostorf in the canton of Solothurn .
history
The core of the small palace complex consists of the masonry of a medieval tower castle , which was built in the early 13th century as the residence of the Lords of Wartenfels , an important noble family in the Buchsgau county . The rule of Wartenfels was under the Habsburgs in the 14th century .
From the descendants of the Lords of Wartenfels, the castle and the rule passed to the Lords of Tengen , the Lords of Roseneck and in 1458 to Heinrich IV. Von Bubenberg , mayor of Bern . In 1465 Adrian I. von Bubenberg sold Wartenfels and Lostorf to the city of Solothurn , which assigned the area to the Bailiwick of Gösgen and set up the seat of the bailiff at Wartenfels Castle.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the owner families Aregger, Greder and Grimm from Solothurn built smaller extensions that gave the former castle the shape of a manorial country house. A castle chapel was also built .
Modern times
In the 19th century, Wartenfels came into the possession of Georg Meidinger (1867–1933), who carried out further expansion work. Johannes Georg Fuchs (1925–1990) from Basel gave the facility to the Canton of Solothurn, which runs it as a foundation together with the city of Olten and the community of Lostorf.
use
Exhibition programs will be implemented in the palace rooms under the direction of Foundation Council President Peter André Bloch .
literature
- E. Heman: Wartenfels Castle . In: The work. Architecture and Art 9/4, 1922 pp. 77–78.
- Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio . Published by the Castle Friends of both Basels on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. Klingental printing works, Basel 1981, pp. 222–223.
- Karin Zaugg: Wartenfels Castle near Lostorf, Canton Solothurn (= Swiss Art Guide 941). Bern 2014.
- Erich Meyer: A baroque showpiece at Wartenfels Castle. A Greder rug . In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter Vol. 63, 2005, pp. 65–68.
- Hans Brunner: From the history of Schloss Wartenfels . In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter Vol. 72, 2014, pp. 26–29.
