List of castles and palaces in the canton of St. Gallen

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Castles and palaces in the canton of St. Gallen

The list of castles and palaces in the canton of St. Gallen shows all castles and palaces in the canton of St. Gallen .

There are ten palaces and five fortresses in the canton of St. Gallen . Most are open to the public. Sulzberg Castle and Heerbrugg Castle are still privately owned. The first buildings were built around 1200, but most of them in the middle of the 13th century. The last ones were built in the 16th century.

All information was taken from the respective articles. Other information is supported by individual evidence.

Explanation of the list

• Name: Provides the official name of the building.
• Town: Shows the town in which the building is located.
• Year: Shows the year of manufacture. But mostly imprecise.
• Type: A distinction is made between the following building types: castle and palace .
• Condition: Describes the condition of the building. A distinction is made between “preserved”, “ruin” and “decayed”.
• Entrance: Tells of whether the building is publicly accessible.
• Image: Displays a picture of the building if possible.
• Noteworthy: Name a special feature of the building.

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Surname	Locality	year	Type	Status	access	image	Remarkable
Bibiton Castle	Kaltbrunn	1200	Castle	ruin	Yes		In 1444 the castle was destroyed in the Old Zurich War and abandoned in the 15th century.
Brochna Castle	Wartau	1150	Castle	ruin	Yes		Only in a story from 1552 is "the broken castle, as there are still quite a few old walls" mentioned for the first time.
Dottenwil Castle	Wittenbach	1302	lock	receive	Yes		Between 1807 and 1997 the castle was first a health resort and then a retirement home. Today it is used as a club and museum.
Forstegg Castle	Sennwald	1210	lock	ruin	Yes		Built around 1200 by the barons of Sax, who sold Sax-Forstegg and the castle to the city of Zurich in 1615. Between 1622 and 1627, Zurich expanded the castle with entrenchments and an armory. Seat of the Zurich bailiff until 1798, sold to the canton of St. Gallen in 1804. In the 19th century, privately owned, fell to ruin.
Freudenberg Castle	Bad Ragaz	1253	Castle	ruin	Yes		There is a legend that tells about a virgin.
Frischenberg Castle	Sax		Castle	ruin	Yes
Gräpplang Castle	Flums	1249	Castle	ruin	Yes		It was not until the 20th century that the preservation of the still stately ruin began.
Heerbrugg Castle	Heerbrugg	1775	lock	renovated and inhabited	No		Was first built in 1077/78 as the Hêrburch fortress , probably on the ruins of a Roman fort . Destroyed in 1280 and rebuilt in 1775 by Bartholomäus Schlumpf , a merchant from St. Gallen on the foothills of the Balgacher Berg. The castle is privately owned by Peter von Rotz . It was renovated in 2006 and furnished with apartments that are rented out.
Herrenberg castle ruins	Sevelen	1250	Castle	ruin	Yes		In his in the 16th century. The historian Aegidius Tschudi reports on Henry III from the Helvetic Chronicle in 1255. von Montfort, the Bishop of Chur: "He also built the Vesti Herrenberg in the village of Sevelen in the district of Werdenberg."
Hohensax Castle	Sennwald	1210	Castle	ruin	Yes		Built around 1200 by the barons of Sax, first called Burg Sax, from 1393 referred to as Burg Hohensax. Destroyed in 1446 in the Old Zurich War. Today owned by the local community of Gams.
Iberg Castle	Wattwil	1230	Castle	ruin	Yes		Originally built as a castle by servants of the St. Gallen Abbey , destroyed in 1405, after 1408 it was rebuilt as a castle for the abbot bailiff in Toggenburg . Disintegrated in private ownership after 1805, the keep was renovated and partially reconstructed in 1902/65.
Luetisburg Castle	Luetisburg	1214	lock	ruin	Yes		Around 1214 the Counts of Toggenburg founded a new castle with a church. 1468–1798 it served as the bailiff's seat of the prince abbey of St. Gallen, demolished in 1810/11 and stones reused in the construction of the Catholic parish church of St. Michael, parts of the building integrated into the new schoolhouse. The castle has disappeared apart from a few remains. The building history has hardly been researched to this day.
Oberberg Castle	Gossau	1262	lock	receive	Yes		The castle was renovated in 1954/55. The building burned down on October 27, 1955 and was not reopened until the summer of 1958.
Rapperswil Castle	Rapperswil	1230	lock	receive	Yes		In the castle there is a restaurant next to the Poland Museum , which also serves guests in the small knight's hall on special occasions .
Rosenberg castle ruins	Berneck SG	1210	Castle	partially preserved / ruin	No		In 1811 19 Berneck residents bought the Rosenburg and the hated building was torn down to the ground. In 1817 Johann Jakob Ritz took over the Rosenburg and had the bell tower built on the garden house, which is known to this day under the name "Schlössli Rosenberg".
Sargans Castle	Sargans	1282	lock	receive	Yes		In addition to a restaurant, the castle houses the Sarganserland Museum, which was named European Museum of the Year in 1983 .
Schwarzenbach Castle	Jonschwil	1275	lock	receive	Yes	[1]	The oldest parts of the complex include the keep as today's castle building, as well as the western part of the curtain wall with the former granary .
Sulzberg Castle	Untereggen	1230	lock	receive	No	[2]	A noble Graubünden family owned the Salishof in Rorschach, a much more comfortable domicile and therefore rarely lived in the castle. In 1713 the castle had fallen into ruin.
Uznaberg ruins	Slim	1234	Castle	ruin	Yes		The castle is said not to have been rebuilt after its destruction in the spring of 1267 or 1268 - which has not yet been archaeologically proven beyond doubt.
Wartau Castle	Wartau	1225	Castle	ruin	Yes		The castle should actually have been awarded to St. Gallen when modern Switzerland was formed. However, since the canton of Glarus had already sold the building to private customers in 1818, it could not be handed over to Wartau until 1911 .
Wartegg Castle	Rorschacherberg	1558	lock	receive	Yes		Napoleon's friends lived in the castle. In addition, French nobles and diplomats, who had served the French king from the Bourbon family , fled to the Wartegg .
Wartensee Castle	Rorschacherberg	1243	lock	receive	Yes	[3]	In 1955, after many changes of ownership, the property was bought by the Eastern Swiss Evangelical Homestead and used as an educational center.
Wartenstein ruins	Pfäfers	1206	Castle	ruin	Yes		Abandoned from the middle of the 16th century.
Werdenberg Castle	Werdenberg	1240	lock	receive	Yes		In 1956 Frieda Hilty donated the castle and its furnishings to the Canton of St. Gallen. It has been open to the public ever since.

See also : List of castles and palaces in Switzerland  and history of the canton of St. Gallen

Web links

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• Castle world: Canton St. Gallen

Comments and individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Burgenwelt - Procha Castle - Switzerland. Retrieved January 8, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} first mentioned in a document
3. ↑ ^{a b} Burgenwelt - Herrenberg - Switzerland. Retrieved January 8, 2020 . 
4. ^ Regula Anna Steinhauser-Zimmermann: Iberg (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 22, 2008 , accessed April 30, 2009 .
5. ↑ «The church under the chapel. News on the building history of the Lütisburg church ». In: Toggenburger Jahrbuch 2004. ( MS Word ; 58 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 28, 2007 ; Retrieved May 13, 2004 . 
6. ↑ Saint Gall Sankt Gallen: Schwarzenbach Castle - Le château de Schwarzenbach, Jonschwil. Retrieved April 29, 2009 . 
7. ↑ The most important cornerstones in the history of Schloss Wartensee. (PDF; 32 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 11, 2006 ; Retrieved April 29, 2009 . 
8. ^ Wartenstein ruins on www.burgseite.ch. Retrieved April 29, 2009 . 
9. ↑ Brief history of the castle and town of Werdenberg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 26, 2003 ; Retrieved April 29, 2009 .