En un regard
Le château en bref
Hünigen Castle stands at Stalden, in the Bernese municipality of Konolfingen, at the gateway to the Emmental, between Bern and Thun. A place named Villa Hünigen is mentioned in the 12th century in a bull of Pope Eugenius III, and an early medieval castle, seat of the Senn ministerials of Münsingen, stood at Niederhünigen. In 1501, Hans Rudolf von Scharnachthal acquired the lordship; his grandson Niklaus had the present building erected in 1554 near the Stalden mill, reusing the stones of the former castle. In 1588, the lordship passed to the Bernese patrician family von May, who retained it until 1922 and governed the village until the French invasion of 1798. In 1892, César Ritz acquired an adjacent plot to found the Berner Alpen Milchgesellschaft. The Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern bought the castle in 1922 for 193,000 francs and turned it into a convalescent home, then a hotel; it was renovated in 1997–1998 as the Parkhotel Schloss Hünigen. Bought back in 2011 by Lark Hill AG, it reopened in May 2013 and has belonged since 2019 to Bernese entrepreneurs, who operate it as a four-star hotel-seminar and boutique hotel with 49 rooms, set in a park.
- Époque de construction
- XVIᵉ siècle (1554)
- Localisation
- Konolfingen, canton de Berne
- Accès au public
- Propriété privée
- Usage actuel
- Hôtel-séminaire et boutique-hôtel quatre étoiles (49 chambres, onze salles de réunion, espace bien-être).
