Schloss Ebenrain

Schloss Ebenrain is a former U.S. house in Sissach, within the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland. Built in 1774-1776, it's miles considered the maximum good sized late baroque house in northwestern Switzerland. It is now a public facility and the web site of an agricultural school. It is indexed as a Swiss cultural belongings of national significance. Schloss Ebenrain turned into built as a summer time house for the rich Basel silk ribbon manufacturer and trader Martin Bachofen and his family.

The Basel architect Samuel Werenfels designed the building.Bachofen meant in the beginning to build a modest U.S.A. house, but modified his plans and built a pricey estate. The gardens to the north and south of the residence had been designed by Bernese architect Niklaus Sprüngli. Both gardens were transformed to fashionable English parks within the early 19th century, but one panorama function, particularly the parallel rows of lindens lining the force to the residence, has remained basically unchanged to the contemporary.

Elite Basel households normally stayed within the U.S. from May to September, but Bachofen frequently extended his remains at Ebenrain until the cease of searching season in January or February. Bachofen died in 1814, and in 1817 his widow, Margaretha, offered Schloss Ebenrain to some other Basel merchant, Johann Rudolf Ryhiner-Streckeisen. Seven years later the estate's new proprietor committed suicide at Ebenrain. Ryhiner become going through fees of bigamy, and on 29 July 1824 he took his personal lifestyles with a pistol.