En un regard
Le château en bref
Overlooking the Gürbe valley, on the eastern slopes of the Längenberg, Rümligen Castle is built around a slender medieval keep of about seven storeys, crowned by a belvedere pavilion. The hipped-roof residential block bears the traces of the Baroque remodelling of 1709: paired windows and a central doorway with a double staircase. A raised terrace, flanked by two corner pavilions, opens onto a geometric Baroque garden of basins and avenues, among the earliest of its kind in the Bernese countryside. Owned by the barons of Rümligen in the Middle Ages, then by Bernese patrician families, notably the Frisching family, the estate is private and closed to the public.