Schloss Burg

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Le château en bref

Burg im Leimental, or Schloss Burg (formerly Burg Neu-Biederthal), crowns a narrow rocky spur above the village, close to the French border in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. It was built around 1250 as the fortress of Biederthal, east of the old tower of Alt-Biederthal, which is mentioned as early as 1168 and was abandoned in the 13th century. After the lordship was sold to the Prince-Bishop of Basel in 1269, the castle became the seat of the lordship, which the Wessenberg family held as a fief from 1401 to 1793. Captured by the men of Basel in 1520 and later returned, the castle was converted into a manor house (Schloss) after 1600, while the village was plundered and burned during the Thirty Years' War. The castle chapel passed to the municipality as an endowment in 1784 and was enlarged in 1787; the castle church now belongs to the Roman Catholic parish. Sold to private owners in 1810, the complex is listed in the cantonal inventory of protected monuments (Schlossberg 3, 4, 5, 9) and is classed as cultural property of national significance. Its history is distinguished by an unusually continuous occupation.