The tower in the water
A tower rising from the lake itself — the image you know from the region.
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The park is free and gives you the building from outside and the mountain view, which alone justifies coming. The ticket adds the furnished rooms and the Turkish smoking room, which is what sets this castle apart. If interior history interests you, go in; if you came for the scene, the park is enough.
Yes — the two are on the same shore about a kilometre apart and you can walk between them. Hünegg is preserved with its original late-nineteenth-century furnishings and Oberhofen is older and more layered, so they complement rather than repeat each other.
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A castle standing directly on the shore of Lake Thun, with a water tower rising out of the lake itself, and among the most photographed buildings in the Bernese Oberland. Its origins are thirteenth century, rebuilt and altered over the centuries, so you read successive layers of style in it. Today it is a historical museum showing furnished rooms from different periods, from medieval halls to nineteenth-century salons. Its strangest feature is a Turkish-style smoking room in one of the towers, added by a nineteenth-century owner: ornament, divans and windows thrown open to the lake, a testament to Europe's fascination with the East in that period. Around the castle is a large lakeside park with old trees and an open view across the water to the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. The park alone is worth the time, and it is free. It is reached by the Lake Thun boats or by bus, and combines easily with nearby Schloss Hünegg into one day on the shore.
A tower rising from the lake itself — the image you know from the region.
Added by a nineteenth-century owner, with ornament, divans and windows on the lake.
The park opens onto all three across the water — entirely free.
Oberhofen on the shore of Lake Thun