Country house / Schlössli Utenberg with garden complex and garden pavilion

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Schlössli Utenberg is a patrician country house in the Rococo style, built around 1757 on the heights of the Utenberg, on the flank of the Dietschiberg, with views over the city of Lucerne, Lake Lucerne and the Alps. The estate comprises a pleasure garden, a terrace, a stone pavilion facing the lake and a more recent orangery; the interior was restored in the Rococo taste. In 1931, the collector Charles B. Hoyt gave the whole ensemble to the City of Lucerne, on condition that public use be guaranteed. From 1950 to 1995, the building housed a costume museum (Trachtenmuseum). In 1996, the City granted a superficies right over the building to private operators, who ran a public restaurant there until 2016. In 2017, the superficies right passed to the company Rokoko AG, which fitted out a café and an events venue (weddings, seminars, meetings). Under heritage protection, the Schlössli is one of the major historic sites of the city of Lucerne.