Contact & Arrivals
You can reach us comfortably by train, bus or car.
If you arrive by car, you can drive to the castle for a maximum stay of 15 minutes for loading and unloading. For hotel guests, 5 parking spaces (with parking fee) are available within a 3-minutes’ walking distance. Restaurant guests are requested to use the public parking spaces "Scherzligen-Schadau".
One of our 5 parking spaces has an E-Car charging station for hotel guests.
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opening hours
Our hotel is open 7 days per week.
Vacation from middle of February until end of February
Our restaurant opening hours:
Monday - Saturday: 08.30 a.m. - 11.00 p.m
Sunday: 08.30 a.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Vor spontaneous visits after 10.00 a.m. please call us before for making sure we are still open. If the park is quite, we close sometimes earlier.
Jobs
Career Steps instead of Career Ladder?
Thank you, that you have chosen our hotel to be your stepping stone for your next career step. Here you will find our vacancies. We are also happy to accept spontaneous applications at any time. Roger Lehmann, Host & Managing Director is looking forward to receiving your application.
At present, our team is complete.
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Team management Schadau Castle Thun
Roger Lehmann
Host & Manager
Born on 14 May 1981 in Wimmis, a small village 10 minutes from Thun, he completed his apprenticeship as a cook at the Erlenbach hospital. Various journeyman years in Zermatt, Gstaad and Bangkok followed, up to the position as chef at the Grill Le Cervin in Zermatt. After completing his studies at the Hotel Management School Thun in 2008, Roger worked in various management positions in Zermatt, Lucerne and Ascona. Since 2010, he has been co-owner of Solbad Gastronomie AG, which runs also the restaurant Schlüsselzunft in Basel, the Gasthof Solbad and the Sommerpark am Rhein in Pratteln.
Anja dossenbach
Assistant manager
Anja Dossenbach joined the Schadau team at the beginning of 2023 and is responsible for the entire event area. She is also Roger Lehmann's deputy. Anja comes from the canton of Nidwalden and is a qualified event manager and HR assistant. She has now moved from her parents' bakery to Lake Thun and is there to answer all your questions about parties, weddings and events.
In her free time she enjoys traveling, sports and a good glass of wine.
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norbert patsch
head chef
Norbert Patsch has been sous-chef at Schloss Schadau since May 1, 2020 and took over the management of the Schadau kitchen with its up to 15 employees on October 1, 2024. Norbert comes from Slovakia, is married and the father of two sons. He has been in Switzerland since 2013 and previously managed a small hotel in Slovakia and worked as a chef and waiter in Germany, Ireland and England. In addition to his work as a chef, his young family is at the center of his life.
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martina ludwig
restaurant manager
Martina is born in Magdeburg - Germany and is working in Switzerland since 2005. Since the opening of Schloss Schadau in June 2019, Martina is part of the team and if you have any questions concerning wine, Martina knows the answer. Her daugther was born in 2019 and she manages the family and her job in an excellent way with a lot of joy.
History
Schadau Castle and its surroundings have a history that ranges back to 1348, the first written reference to the House of Schadau. At that time it was still a house, but in 1638 it was rebuilt as a manor house.
In 1838 work began on the landscaped park in the English style. The construction of the new castle building, as we know it today, took place in 1852 under Denis Alfred de Rougemont.
During the construction work, the base area was raised about one meter and then later the manor house and barn were demolished.
The park was first opened to the public on Sundays in 1860, and later daily. In 1871 work on the park (English landscaped garden) was completed. In 1925, the Schadau consortium sold the Castle Park of some 3,6 ha to the city of Thun for CHF 380,000. The city carried out replanting and reconstructions and asphalted the Seestrasse in 1931.
During the war, the castle was used as a military museum and sanitary station. In addition, several vegetable fields were planted in the well-maintained park.
In 1949 the restoration of the Castle Park was started, and the cemetery gardener made numerous changes. In 1961 the Wocher panorama (today Thun-Panorama) to the west of the castle was opened with a new path through the Schadau grove. In 1974 Schadau Castle was placed under protection, but without the park, and the restoration work on the castle building was completed in 1996.
As the chronicle shows, both Schadau Castle as well as the park have changed over and again due to the successive owners. However, some elements have remained, such as the tree garden, the view of the Alps and the spacious meadows. Schadau Castle is an important national monument that was renovated between 1954 and 1996 for more than CHF 20 million.
In October 2017, the castle was closed for urgently renovation work with the aim of sustainably positioning Schadau Castle as a restaurant and hotel with nine guest rooms and unified use from June 2019. The investments amounted to approximately CHF 10 million.
(Text: Dürrenast Leist, www.duerrenast-leist.ch and supplemented by Solbad Gastronomie AG)
(Picture on the right: Copyright Verlag Christian Krüsi, Basel)
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