Campagne Bellevue

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Le château en bref

The Campagne Bellevue is a country estate in the municipality of Bern, in the canton of Bern. The Campagne Bellevue was originally a late-Gothic autumn house. The earliest known owner of the Bellevue estate was David Lerber (1628–1708). The councillor David Lerber (1654–1737) owned the property from 1708. His nephew Hans Jakob Lerber (1682–1741) inherited the estate and bequeathed it, by will, to the Lerber Familienkiste. The Familienkiste sold the Campagne Bellevue in 1759 to Vincenz Bernhard Tscharner, who hosted guests from across Europe there. After his death, the pastor Gabriel Viret owned it until 1780, followed by the banker Ludwig Zeerleder. In 1792, Carl Ahasver von Sinner added the columned peristyle for him. Zeerleder's son-in-law, the postal lessee Ludwig Anton Fischer (1772–1859), owned the Bellevue from 1805 and sold it in 1842 to Fredrich Lüthardt. In 1858, Georg Emanuel Ludwig Ziegler bought the Campagne Bellevue. After his death in 1867, the house served as the first Zieglerspital. Today the Campagne Bellevue houses the Berner Designstiftung (formerly the Bernische Stiftung für angewandte Kunst und Gestaltung).