JACOB JR. MY JEWISH WORLD. OBERHOFEN CASTLE. OBERHOFEN/SWITZERLAND.

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Thrusday, Cheshvan 27, 5778. November 16, 2017.

Shalom! World.


According to the oficial version,  the history of the Schloss Oberhofen is calculated from 1130. Of  course, not all the historians agree on this date, and i alsso think it fair to say that the "Castle on the Lakke" appeared later. In the ancient chronicles, 1130 is set the year of foundation of the monastery, around which the village of Oberhofen am Thunersee began to grow, The monastery was built half a kilometer above the present location of the fabulous Oberhofen Castle, but not even its ruins were preserved. 


The oldest preserved building of the Oberhofen Castle was built only a hundred years later, at the beginning of the 13th century on the order of  the ruler of the land, the Duke Walter von Eschenbach. The tower-dungeon, 11 to 12 meters in diameter with two-meter walls, was able to withstand the attack of any weapons of that era. I emphasize: any, because several centuries remained before the invention of explosives, and nothing else could break such a stone giant. So, this tower has stood here for nearly nine centuries.


Years passed. The First World War broke out in Europe and affected many countries, cities, and people. the Oberhofen Castle also fell into disrepair. Surprisingly, the castle was given a second life thanks to the US citizen, William Maul Measy, who acquired it in the 1930s. The successful  American  lawyer never lived in Switzerland, but did a lot to restore this impressive monument of architecture and history. 


Any guide will tell you that the castle has a unique collection of paintings whose cost is impossible to calculate. Maybe it would be so, if it had the Isleworth Mona Lisa presumably by Leonardo da Vinci (the youngest of the "three sisters") which was shown to the public in 1212 and then returned to the safe of one of  the Swiss banks.

Shalom! Aleichem.

Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz .

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