Sonnenburggut

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Le château en bref

The Sonnenburggut (also known briefly as the Sonnenburg) is a country estate with a castle-like character, expanded in the 16th century, located within the city of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. The estate and its associated park are privately owned and not open to the public. The estate is first mentioned in records in 1589. At that time, the originally modest buildings were extended into an imposing Renaissance-style country residence on the initiative of its owner, Johann Conrad Meyer, who was also mayor of Schaffhausen. In 1676, the Baroque interiors, now still described as the showpieces of the house, were created, with stucco work by Samuel Höscheller and tiled stoves by David Pfau. The estate was owned in turn by several prominent Schaffhausen patrician families, including the Peyer (im Hof), Stokar and Peyer (mit den Wecken) families. In 1869, the estate passed by marriage to the industrialist Johann Conrad Neher, whose son Arnold Neher operated the first landscape gardening business with a tree nursery on the site from 1870 to 1885.