Brestenberg Castle

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Brestenberg and Hallwilersee on a color lithograph from 1865

The Brestenberg Castle is a small hotel in the baroque style castle south of Seengen in the Swiss canton of Aargau, about 200 meters from the shores of Lake Hallwil away. This is an original country home of the Lords of Hallwyl, which was 1625 generated by the development of a built already in the 16th century house.

1622 sold Samuel Dean Gruner from Seengen the property Brestenberg for 4500 florins to Hans Rudolf von Hallwyl, who gave a completely new construction in order three years later. 1710 was a stately farm buildings on the east side of the court. The castle was also owned by the family of May After several changes of ownership, the castle was purchased in 1844 by the physician Adolf Erismann. This transformed the facility into a Wasserkuranstalt and ordered to build for this purpose a hall building, were housed in the lounges and bathrooms.

The institution was known in Europe until after the Second World War in operation and then served up in the 1980s as a hotel. Today, a house owned by the Winterthur, the castle is the "Foundation for Art, Culture and History " by Bruno Stefanini and not accessible to the public again.