Schwarzenburg Castle

The Black Castle is a castle from the 16th century in the town of Schwarzburg in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is a pattern valid manor house of the 16th and 17th century architectural monument of national importance. For 430 years, the castle serves as the seat of the district administration Schwarzburg.

History

The reign grass castle was sold in 1423 by the Counts of Savoy to the cities of Bern and Fribourg. As they left in place the remote castle in the village 1573-1575 Schwarzburg for their Vogt, alternately a Bernese and Freiburg, build a new comfortable chateau. 1798 was the previous " mean (sam ) e" rule of Bern alone.

Architectural and art history

Schloss Schwarzburg is characterized by the three -story, brick floor under a hipped roof that emphasized gable facade and eaves polygonal stair tower. As a special dignity and as an architectural character, the chateau was a gevierten walled courtyard with two distinctive corner turrets, the defensibility only symbolize front of the main facade. Schwarzburg thereby embodies the canonical in the 16th and 17th century manor house type, supplemented by features of the then-popular " castle romanticism." The house has been untouched by gross interference with facade, basic structures and features, not least thanks to particularly sturdy construction.