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Le château en bref
Blumenstein is a summer residence in the Régence style, built in 1725–1728 for the governor Franz Heinrich von Stäffis-Mollondin on the outskirts of the old town of Solothurn, at the centre of a terraced park. Having passed to the von Stäffis, St. Aubin and Glutz-Ruchti families, the estate was broken up after the bankruptcy of Joseph Glutz-Ruchti, and was then acquired in 1933 by Fritz Hirt-Baumgartner, who sold it to the town in 1951. The Solothurn Historical Museum has been open there since 3 May 1952: baroque reception rooms furnished with period pieces, a historic kitchen, a model of Solothurn, and cantonal archaeology in the farmer's house. Cultural property of national significance.