 Their proximity to Bern, cleaner air and pleasant climate encouraged construction of estate houses such as Sandhof and Lindenhof in Worblaufen and Thalgut and Mannenberg in Ittigen.Near the old country house is the new Thalgut-shopping center which has replaced the historic Badhaus restaurant and forms a new village center.In 1367 the knight Johann II von Bubenberg, the Lord of Spiez and former Schultheiss of Bern, granted "die Matte Thal" lands as a fief to the brothers Cuno and Peter von Seedorf.