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Le château en bref
Schloss Steinhof is a patrician residence in Lucerne, begun in 1759 on the ‘zum Stein’ estate, which the Sonnenberg family had owned since 1674. The plans were drawn up by Jakob Anton Thüring von Sonnenberg (1718–1805), a Lucerne patrician and amateur architect, who created what the Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse considers the most important 18th-century building in Lucerne. The Sonnenberg family, drawn from the city's patriciate, kept the château until 1924, when it was sold to the Swiss province of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help (Frères de la Miséricorde de Marie-Auxiliatrice). The building has undergone an exterior restoration carried out in several stages, including a second stage documented from 1980 to 1986 in the restoration archives. It now forms part of a complex that houses a nursing home, the Steinhof Pflegeheim, whose restaurant, the Gastwirtschaft zum Steinhof, is open to the public and sits directly behind the historic château.