Ittigen Castle

During the 17th and 18th centuries numerous Bernese patricians built country estates in Ittigen and surrounding villages. Their proximity to Bern, cleaner air and pleasant climate encouraged construction of estate houses such as Sandhof and Lindenhof in Worblaufen and Thalgut and Mannenberg in Ittigen. Near the old country house is the new Thalgut-shopping center which has replaced the historic Badhaus restaurant and forms a new village center.
In 1367 the knight Johann II von Bubenberg, the Lord of Spiez and former Schultheiss of Bern, granted die Matte Thal lands as a fief to the brothers Cuno and Peter von Seedorf. Niklaus Dachselhofer, the Bernese bailiff of Yverdon-les-Bains as well as the Schultheiss of Bern, bought the estate in the late 17th century and enlarged it until his death in 1670. In 1672 a document, now stored in the State Archives of the Canton of Bern, mentioned that his son, also named Niklaus Dachselhofer or Daxelhofer , bought a demesne and manor house in the valley [German: Thal] near the bath house of Peter Rentsch. In 1677 he traded the Thal or Ittigen estates to Samuel Jenner and received Jenner's estates in Utzigen . His nephew, Samuel Jenner the famed Bernese Baroque architect, renovated and expanded the building to its current appearance.

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