Oberdiessbach Castle

The New Castle Oberdiessbach is a castle in Oberdiessbach, Canton Bern, Switzerland.

It was a few meters south of the 1546 -built Old Castle from 1666 to 1668, built as a country home in the style of the late French Renaissance Albrecht von Wattenwyl ( 1617-1671 ), a colonel in the French service under King Louis XIV and is still owned by the family of Wattenwyl. The middle section has a high hipped, long chimneys and loggias. The sight of the castle with syne proud Bogefänschter, de fine grid and de Chemi where as chlyni Türm usem powerful roof ufgwachse sy portrays Rudolf von Tavel in his novel The bernese frondeur.

Prior to the main facade is a baroque garden with a wrought iron gate in the Regency style, lead to the avenues with a total length of 1 km. The interior of the castle from the construction period was complemented by tapestries in the late 18th century.

The Oberdiessbach Castle is the first purely French-influenced country estate in the Canton of Bern and is considered the most important work of the Bernese secular building in the mid- 17th century.