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Le château en bref
The Herrenhaus at the Neuhof, in Birr in the canton of Aargau, is a two-storey Neoclassical building with a central projecting bay under a pointed pediment, segmental-arched openings and a bowed hipped roof. Begun in 1821–1822 by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi as an institutional building, it was completed by his grandson Gottlieb. It forms part of the Neuhof estate, where Pestalozzi acquired a model farm around 1770 and founded, in 1774, an institution for poor children; he returned there and died there in 1827. Since 1914 the site has housed a Pestalozzian home, today the Berufsbildungsheim Neuhof.