En un regard
Le château en bref
The Herrenhaus of Grafenort stands in the hamlet of the same name, in the municipality of Engelberg (Obwalden), at the entrance to the Engelberg valley. A three-storey stone manor house topped with a hipped roof with dormer windows, modelled on the patrician residences of Schwyz, it was built at the end of the 17th century for the Benedictine abbey of Engelberg, serving as a baroque holiday residence for the abbot and the monks and as a relay station on the valley road. The carved coat of arms of Abbot Ignaz II Burnott, dated 1690, adorns the entrance. Inside, the panelling and ceilings received a mythological and allegorical decoration by Johann Martin Obersteg in 1777, restored in the 1990s; there is also a faience stove dating from 1699. An octagonal garden pavilion stands in a garden of baroque inspiration. Together with the Chapel of the Holy Cross and the convent inn of 1778, the house forms the site's ensemble. Today it is used for receptions and seminars.