Campagne Diemerswil

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Le château en bref

The Campagne Diemerswil, also known as the ‘château’ of Diemerswil, was a patrician country house in Diemerswil, a former municipality in the canton of Bern that is now part of Münchenbuchsee. In the Middle Ages the village belonged to the Münchenbuchsee Commandery, which depended on the Order of St John, before being attached to the Münchenbuchsee bailiwick after 1528. The estate, which dates from the eighteenth century, belonged to the von Fellenberg family, whose name is linked to the Hofwil educational establishments: in the nineteenth century the neighbouring estate of Mettlen was run as a model farm by the Hofwil Institute. The coat of arms of the former municipality bears the cross of the Hospitallers, lords of the place before 1528, and the rose of the Fellenbergs. A peristyle adorned the residence, photographed around 1900. The building was demolished in 1969; today it survives only in archives and old illustrations.