Schloss Liel

En un regard

Le château en bref

Schloss Liel, or Lieler Schloss, is a Baroque manor house in the village of Liel, which belongs to the municipality of Schliengen in the heart of the Markgräflerland, between Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau. Built around the middle of the eighteenth century, it replaced the medieval residence of the Lords of Baden of Liel, a moated castle situated below the church, which has since disappeared. The building, designed by the Basel architect Johann Jacob Fechter for Franz Benedikt von Baden, rises two storeys beneath a mansard roof. A pediment bears the joined coats of arms of the von Baden and von Rotberg families. The estate also included a park, a building known as the Kavaliersbau, outbuildings, a small Baroque theatre, and a house that later served as the village town hall. After the extinction of the Barons von Baden in 1830, the house changed hands several times: the von Türckheim and von Schweickhard families, then various owners, among them the singer Beatrice Sutter-Kottlar, who died there in 1935. It is today privately owned and is not open to the public. The estate’s mineral spring is bottled by the company Lieler Schlossbrunnen, which is housed in the former Kavaliersbau.