The first record of the word “Homberg/Homburg” is from 1363 as “Honberg”, which means “Hohenberg” or high mountain. The hill there is worthy of this name - it is the highest hill in the region.

The famous Homberg family from the Oberland region certainly has its roots here. Even before the first official record of the Homberg family, the families of Wolf, Halbheer and Grüter were recorded as living in Homberg and they worked as servants in the Bubikon knight’s mansion. However these servants were not downtrodden and enslaved. As the owners of a monastic fiefdom, they were practically their own masters and were able to accumulate substantial wealth with this type of court.

In 1642, Heini Gysling zu Homberg resided in and ran a house, a barn, a storage barn, a garden with herbs and trees, 25 Mannwerch (medieval Swiss term for the amount of land one man could work in one day) pastures, 52 acres of fields, 3 acres of forest and 2 acres of hemp.

The Baumann family worked the court for almost 100 years, from 1650 onwards.

The Homberg house itself is an early gable-end building. This type of building became prevalent from around 1750, and spread into the area from the neighbouring pre-alp region. Together with the “Trottenspeicher” (attic) from the same period and the huge barn and the lower house built in the neo-classical style in 1882, it forms an impressive group of buildings. The Guyer family has lived here since 1849, and the fifth generation of the family are now working on the farm.

Bature and Environment/ Bubikon – Wolfhausen 1997
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