En un regard
Le château en bref
The Schipf rises on the Herrliberg vineyard slope, facing Lake Zurich. The KGS presents it as the most representative of the Baroque seigniorial residences on the lake shore. A vineyard surrounds the whole, occupying the site of a former fortified house attested in 1398. The main house, built in 1617, stretches parallel to the shore; a terraced garden, created in 1648, faces it, flanked by two symmetrical pavilions. In the eighteenth century a farmhouse with a function hall (1723-1732) and interior decoration of high quality were added: stucco work, ceilings painted with mythological scenes, blue-and-white faience stoves, and a Baroque organ dating from 1694. The estate remained in the hands of major Zurich families, the Werdmüller and then the Escher, and hosted Goethe in 1797 and Winston Churchill in 1946.