Villa Wenkenhof, Historical villa in Riehen, Switzerland.

Villa Wenkenhof is an estate on the eastern edge of Riehen comprising two villas, the Old Wenken and the New Wenken, with a 6.3-hectare park around them. The New Wenken is a single-storey Baroque villa built in 1736, later raised in 1860 and remodelled in Neo-Baroque style between 1918 and 1921. The park includes a French Baroque garden and an English landscape section.

The estate was first recorded in 751 as 'Wahinhofen' during the era of Charlemagne. Over the centuries, it underwent numerous transformations and changes of ownership that shaped its current form.

The New Wenken villa and its baroque garden passed to the Alexander Clavel Foundation in 1954, and the estate has been publicly owned since 1969. The baroque garden opens to visitors on several Sundays a year, while the villa's ground floor is rented out for social occasions. The landscape park, owned by the municipality of Riehen, has hosted concerts of the Stimmen festival.

Parts of the park are open to visitors, and events are held throughout the year, making visits more rewarding during event dates. It is worth checking ahead to learn which areas are accessible and what activities are scheduled.

The two gilded lead-cast stags on the gate pillars at the cour d'honneur were added in 1922, when Alexander Clavel-Respinger had the New Wenken rebuilt in neo-Baroque style by Bern architect Henry Berthold de Fischer. The landscape architect Adolf Vivell then extended the English park between 1925 and 1930.