Holligen Castle

The Holligen Castle is a castle in the Holligenstrasse 44 in Bern.

The area around Holligen was first mentioned in 1257 as a possession of the German Order of house Köniz. Already at that time there must have been a castle there. The oldest part of today's plant is the Built in 1500 on behalf of the Berner Schultheissen William of this Bach Donjon.

It made ​​further modifications under Hans Rudolf Tillier (1552-1573), whose son Paul Wyer (1573-1631), possibly Johann Jacob Thormann, who had taken over the castle in 1648 by his father Abraham Wurstemberger, and in 1680 under Johann in baroque style Rudolf Bucher.

Other owners were Johann Rudolf Bucher junior (1719-1742) and Daniel Fell mountain. His son Johann Jacob Fellberg managed the estate, together with his brother Gabriel Herport (1742-1764), and in 1764 it was finally about to Herport. This let to rebuild the keep and put on an avenue whose trees had to be felled in 1992.

About Herports son, the castle came in 1783 to the family of Mutach. Carl Ludwig von Mutach (1794-1807) built on the west wing, a peristyle, Abraham Friedrich von Mutach built from 1816 to 1819, a laundry and a family tomb, and his son Arnold Ludwig von Mutach there were further modifications in the 1830s.

A comprehensive renovation took place from 1991 to 1994, and since 1995 part of the Donjon Tower Castle Foundation Holligen.

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