Schloss Himmelrich with Pavilions

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Himmelrich is a former patrician country house in Lucerne, now enclosed within the Hirschmatt district, between the Obergrundstrasse and the Bundesstrasse. It was built in 1772 by Franz Plazid Schumacher, a member of a patrician family of the city, on the Himmelrich meadow he had inherited from his father. The builder, who was also a man of science, fitted out a small observatory tower there. Described as a witness to late Baroque architecture, the residence counts among the most important secular Baroque buildings in Lucerne; a gardener's house and a chapel complete the estate. The Schumacher family sold the property in 1807 to the patrician Bühler family. The estate, once larger, was reduced over the course of successive sales and railway expropriations, but it retains a park of more than 5,300 m² with old trees. A complete renovation is documented in 1994, and the house appears in the documentation of the federal ISOS inventory for the city of Lucerne.