Oberhofen - Historical Museum

(Local Name: Schloss Oberhofen) The feudal castle of Oberhofen was built in the 12th C. by the Lords of Oberhofen but had to be surrendered to the Austrians in 1306. In 1844 the Prussian Count Friedrich von Pourtales de Castellane Norante gave the castle a romantic aspect by adding numerous turrets, balconies and dormer windows. Regularly patterned flower-beds were laid out on the lakeside terrace and exotic trees were planted. An American, W. M. Measy, inherited the castle in 1926 and had a branch museum of the Bernese Historical Museum installed.

The castle houses rooms furnished in the 15th - 19th C style, including a billiard room and a Turkish smoking room. In the park is a children's chalet with a toy collection