Vorder-Bleichenberg Castle

Experience art and enjoy culture together.
The historic ambience provides an atmospheric setting for inspiring art exhibitions, concerts, readings, guided tours, private events and festive occasions.

Children, young people, school classes and adults can experience art at Schlösschen Vorder-Bleichenberg in a variety of ways. Guided tours and workshops promote "seeing" and creative access to the works. They create a link between contemporary art and everyday life.

The small Vorder-Bleichenberg castle was originally the stately summer residence of Solothurn's patrician Von Roll family. Between 1607 and 1609, Hieronymus von Roll and his son Johann II built the baroque Türmlihaus. It remained in the family until 1816. After several sales, the canton took over the small Vorder-Bleichenberg castle and handed the dilapidated building over to the municipality of Biberist in 1970.

In 1968, Erika and Fritz Moos-Flury bequeathed an important collection of 192 masterpieces to the municipality of Biberist. The collection contains important works by Swiss artists of the 20th century, including Cuno Amiet, Maurice Barraud, Hans Berger, Alois Carigiet, Max Gubler, Hans Jauslin, Ernst Morgenthaler, Werner Miller and Albert Schnyder. The pictures from this collection are regularly exhibited in the Foundation Hall. The small castle Vorder-Bleichenberg was the summer residence of the Von Roll family and was built in 1609 in the style of the French manoirs. The Association of Friends of the Castle organizes six art exhibitions with contemporary artists every year.


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