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Le château en bref
Hof Mayenfels is a Baroque country estate in Pratteln, on a north-facing slope to the west of the village. Built in 1726/27 by Johann Rudolf Faesch, it was designed by Emanuel Büchel in 1735. Friedrich Forcart-Faesch took it over in 1762, and then Peter Burckhardt-Forcart, in 1775, lengthened the main residence, added a small belfry and enhanced the terraces and garden. The main building, long and two storeys high, has a mansard roof; the wrought-iron staircase railing, in the Régence style, is rare in the region. Lukas Burckhardt-Lang, owner from 1827, remodelled the façade in the Neoclassical style (1828). In the twentieth century, the site housed a boarding school and then the Rudolf Steiner School.