Hünegg Castle

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Hünegg Castle
Hünegg Castle above Lake Thun.

Hünegg Castle (German: Schloss Hünegg) is a castle in the municipality of Hilterfingen of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.[1]

History

Hünegg Castle was built in 1861-63 for the Prussian Baron Albert Emil Otto von Parpart. However, he was only able to enjoy the castle for a few years since he died in 1869.[2] Ten years after its completion, it was sold to the Berlin commercial judge Karl Lehmann. He owned the property for only six years before it was acquired by Gustav Lemke-Schuckert. Lemke-Schuckert, an architect from Wiesbaden, renovated the interior in the Art Nouveau style. The castle remained in private hands until 1958 when the Canton of Bern bought it. Today it houses the Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau Museum. [3]

Special exhibitions

The castle as well as the castle park are available for changing exhibitions. So the Mountain railways special exhibition in the Hünegg Castel take place for example in 2012, 2013 and 2014 from May to October.

Mountain railways special exhibition in the Hünegg Castel

The Swiss mountain railways exhibition in Hünegg Castle (German: Sonderausstellung Bergbahnen im Schloss Hünegg) by Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland occurred with a budget of Swiss franc 92'000.- from May 13 to October 14, 2012, and again from May 12 to October 20, 2013.[4][5][6]

The temporary exhibition in and in the environment Hünegg Castle is above the pioneer works in mountain railway construction. She is designed by the former village doctor Robert Ganz and the engine-driver Roger Rieker.[7] Due to the great success in the years 2012 and 2013 the exhibition is also repeated in 2014 from 11 May to 19 October.[8]

Loans objects of around 130 individuals and 30 companies provide an overview of funicular railways, aerial cableways, ski lifts, chair lifts, cable cars and mountain railways with rack or/and adhesion traction. Under these loans are approximately 200 models, over 500 photographs, over 100 documents as well as 10 video presentations.

In the models predominate models of standard gauge adhesion Bernese mountain railway company Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon (BLS), models and dioramas of most Swiss mountain narrow gauge railways as example the Rhaetian railway (RhB) or narrow gauge mountain rack railways as example, the Brienz Rothorn railway (BRB), Wengernalp railway (WAB) and the Jungfrau railway (JB). But will also be shown rarities such as different models of the Golden Mountain Pullman Express train of the Montreux-Bernese Oberland railway (MOB).[9]

Bibliography

  • Robert Ganz, Roger Rieker: Bau und Betrieb Schweizerischer Bergbahnen, Historischer Querschnitt, Sonderausstellung im Schloss Hünegg Hilterfingen, authors publisher, Jost Druck Hünibach 2013

External links

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References

  1. ↑ "Kantonsliste A-Objekte". KGS Inventar (in German). Federal Office of Civil Protection. 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Schloss Hünegg website". Retrieved September 06, 2012.  (German)
  3. ↑ "Swiss Castles.ch Bern: Schloss Hunegg". Retrieved September 06, 2012.  (German)
  4. ↑ Urs Nötzi: Robert Ganz und seine Leidenschaft... in Eisenbahn Amateur (Swiss model railway magazine) 11/2013 page 558 (German)
  5. ↑ www.hilterfingen.ch Municipality Hilterfingen, Auszug aus den Gemeinderatsverhandlungen vom 6. Februar 2012 (German) Retrieved January 24, 2014
  6. ↑ www.hilterfingen.ch Municipality Hilterfingen, Thunter Tagblatt from February 14, 2012 newspaper article Beitrag für Ausstellung (German) Retrieved January 24, 2014
  7. ↑ Gesellschaft der Ingenieure des öffentlichen Verkehrs / société des ingénieurs des transports publics Gdl-Bulletin-Adl no 68, 2012, June, Buchrezensionen von Roland Kallmann, Sonderausstellung Bergbahnen im Schloss Hünegg / Recensions de livre de Roland Kallmann, exposition temporaire des chemins de fer de montagne au château de Hünegg (German/French)
  8. ↑ Swiss Radio and Television (Swissinfo), broadcasting of 2013, 25 Mai: Schloss Hünegg: Warum hat der Baron eine Seilbahn im Salon? Retrieved 2014, January 17 (German)
  9. ↑ Schloss Hünegg, Sonderausstellung Bergbahnen vom 12. Mai bis 20. Oktober 2013 in Prellbock (Swiss railway magazine) 3/2013 page 28
Castles and Fortresses of the Canton of Bern

Coordinates: 46°44′16″N 7°39′18″E / 46.737794°N 7.654931°E / 46.737794; 7.654931


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