Ebenrain Château, Late Baroque manor house in Sissach, Switzerland.
Ebenrain Château is a late Baroque country estate built in 1774–1776 in Sissach for the Basel silk ribbon merchant Martin Bachofen, designed by architect Samuel Werenfels. The building stands within gardens laid out by Bernese architect Niklaus Sprüngli, and parallel rows of lindens still line the drive to the house.
A Basel merchant named Martin Bachofen commissioned architect Samuel Werenfels to design this residence between 1774 and 1776 as a summer retreat and hunting lodge. The construction period coincided with an era when wealthy Basel traders invested in substantial country estates outside the city.
The château houses temporary art exhibitions and concerts while maintaining its status as a Class A Swiss cultural property of national significance.
Since a 1967 highway embankment, the château and park sit apart from Sissach town, but the site remains reachable on foot or by bicycle, with signposts marking the route from Sissach train station. The whole building has been wheelchair accessible since 1989. The farm is run separately as the Landwirtschaftliches Zentrum Ebenrain agricultural school.
The linden avenue along the drive is the one garden element that survived the 19th-century conversion of both parterres into English landscape parks; it is essentially unchanged since Niklaus Sprüngli laid it out in the 1770s. Look for the parallel rows of lindens on the central axis.
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