Schloss Oberhofen am Thunersee
Lakeside castle with a spired water tower, medieval keep, oriental smoking room and gardens.
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This guide to Schloss Oberhofen, on Lake Thun near Interlaken, asks a simple question about the slender tower standing in the water: how old is it really? It moves from a fifteenth-century chapel to the Bernese bailiffs who ran the castle from sixteen fifty-two, and to the Pourtalès counts who bought it in eighteen forty-four. Best heard from the lakeside path, with the water tower and the square keep both in view.
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