Schloss Ueberstorf hosts residential seminars, day meetings, banquets and weddings for up to 120 guests, with bedrooms in the castle itself. Its rooms range from a 30 m² corner room for a small board to a former church that seats 100, or 120 with the ground-floor rooms added. The castle stands at Schlossstrasse 14 in Ueberstorf, in the canton of Fribourg, and belongs to the Burkhalter Group.
Seminars and company events
The castle sells a residential seminar package that includes a meeting room set up for the group, standard equipment, paper and pens, a night in a single or double room with breakfast, two coffee breaks a day, two two-course lunches or lunch bags and a four-course dinner, with meat or vegetarian options. Day-guest packages, full or half day, welcome coffees and aperitif packages can be added. Standard equipment covers a projector and screen, a flipchart, a pinboard and a facilitation kit, and Wi-Fi reaches the whole building. For breaks or evenings, the team suggests a storyteller, a historical talk on the Tinguely Clique, visits to exhibitions and a nearby gallery, and the Swiss Bike Park. The castle was named Midena seminar hotel of the year 2019.
Weddings and receptions
The chapel and the garden serve as ceremony settings, and dinner moves into the former church or the salons. The castle can be booked exclusively on selected summer Saturdays; for 2027 the dates run from May to September, and Fridays, Sundays and off-season dates can be requested. The venue placed second in the Swiss Location Award 2019 for wedding venues. Site visits and tastings are by appointment.
Rooms and capacities
The former church, 75 m², seats 100 and has a stained-glass window and two windows facing the vineyards. The Leuchterzimmer, 38 m², takes 24 on the ground floor and opens to the winter garden. The Weisser Salon, about 27 m², takes 18 to 20. The Cheminéeraum, 55 m², reached by a spiral staircase, seats 20 at one long table or 38 at five tables, and the fire is lit in winter. The glazed Art Nouveau Gartenlaube takes 40. The freestanding chapel, 33 m², holds 25 standing or up to 17 seated. For seminars, the Saal on the third floor has light from three sides, and the Eckzimmer suits a meeting at a round table. The garden can host seated meals, buffets or an outdoor workshop.
Accommodation
The bedrooms are themed after the castle's past: rooms for the lord and the lady of the house, an artist's room facing south and east, a canopy-bed room, rooms named after the former storeroom and herb pharmacy, a room on the theme of superstition and former servants' rooms.
Catering
The castle restaurant cooks for meetings and banquets. Banquet menus, aperitif proposals and the wine list are available from the venue, and wedding cakes come from a partner bakery.
History and setting
The castle counts about 520 years of history, and its tradition links it to the Englisberg family; Theodor Sebastian von Englisberg remains its house legend. The motto of the house is tafeln, tagen, träumen: dining, meeting, dreaming.
Getting there
Ueberstorf lies between Bern and Fribourg, close to the A12 motorway. Flamatt station, on the Bern to Fribourg line, is the nearest rail stop, and Bern Airport is the closest airport.
