Von Rütte-Gut

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Le château en bref

The Von Rütte-Gut is a country estate located in Sutz, on the southern shore of Lake Biel, in the Bernese municipality of Sutz-Lattrigen. Its origins date back to the fifteenth century, when it belonged to a Bernese patrician family; it is today presented as the last large intact agricultural and wine-producing estate among some thirty comparable properties once owned by the Bernese patriciate. The built core, dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was substantially transformed around 1870 by the architect Friedrich Ludwig von Rütte (1829–1903), who acquired the estate that year and turned it into a summer residence of baroque character, with small towers and a rural section. On the upper floor, decorative floral paintings were produced towards the end of the nineteenth century by members of the Benner family of painters. The Jura water correction (1868–1891) having lowered the lake, von Rütte laid out a landscape park inspired by the English garden, adorned with a Chinese pavilion, along the water's edge. The site adjoins the Rütte prehistoric pile-dwelling remains, listed by UNESCO. Since 1988, the von-Rütte-Gut Foundation has owned the estate and carried out restorations until 2004. The estate today hosts concerts, wine tastings, open days, weddings and seminars.