Castle with former prison tower and garden pavilion

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Schlössli of Kehrsatz, in the canton of Bern, is a former manor house built at the end of the 16th century. Over time, the lordship of Kehrsatz passed into the hands of several Bernese patrician families, notably David Wurstemberger (1692–1695) and Karl Hackbrett (1720–1737). In 1795, Emanuel von Tscharner bought the estate from the family of General Hackbrett; the Tscharners already owned two other properties in Kehrsatz, the Lohn and the Blumenhof, and retained them after the French invasion of 1798. The last Tscharners residing at the castle died without issue in 1862 and bequeathed the property to the Inselspital in Bern. Converted into a boarding school for young women in 1889, the castle saw its barn demolished and replaced by a farm around 1950–1954. It today houses an institution of social and curative pedagogy, which resulted in 1998 from the merger of the Landorf Köniz and Schlössli Kehrsatz institutions. The inventory designation refers to an ensemble comprising the castle, a former prison tower and a garden pavilion.