Utzigen château, 17th-century château in Vechigen, Switzerland.

Utzigen is a château built from 1664 to 1670 on a cellar base, two storeys high with three by seven window axes. Its main façade faces the park on the southern valley side, and a double flight of stairs leads from the ground floor through a baroque portal to the living floor. The steep full-hipped roof has two original brick dormers on the south side, and a square stair tower on the higher courtyard side serves the three upper floors.

Samuel Jenner bought the Utzigen estate in 1664 and had a new château built on the cellar base of the old castle between 1664 and 1670. In 1682 he traded the lordship with Niklaus Dachselhofer for the Thalgut in Ittigen; the Dachselhofer family kept it until 1875, when Franz Carl Niklaus Friedrich von Dachselhofer sold it to the Oberländische Armenverpflegungsanstalt for 240,000 francs. The lordship ended with the 1798 revolution.

The château reflects the lifestyle of regional nobility from the 1600s, and visitors can see how the building was designed for comfortable living rather than warfare. The layout and design choices show what mattered to the families who lived there.

The château is located in Vechigen municipality in the canton of Bern and is accessible through marked footpaths in the surrounding area. Visitors should wear sturdy shoes since the terrain is slightly uneven and approaches cross open fields.

The garden's two tulip trees shade a French-style broderie parterre; one of them is about 220 years old. Two allegorical sandstone statues and a central fountain ringed by rose beds complete the terrace, which is enclosed by high walls.