Tössegg ruins

Tössegg ruins
	View from the southwest
Alternative name (s):	Tösseggburg
Creation time :	around 1200 to 1250
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Place:	Tössegg
Geographical location	47 ° 26 '18.8 " N , 8 ° 50' 18.3" O Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '18.8 " N , 8 ° 50' 18.3" E ; CH1903: 705588 / 255137

The ruins of Tössegg , also known as Tösseggburg , are the ruins of a hilltop castle on a spur to the north-west of Turbenthal in the canton of Zurich . It belongs to the site of a farm. It is named after the river Töss , which flows in the north below the castle. The ruins of a tower and two neck ditches can be seen in the area.

history

The small castle was probably built in the first decades of the 13th century. In the 13th century the castle was the seat of the Meier von Turbenthal. They are mentioned in 1266. From 1363 to 1410 the castle was owned by the Lords of Wildberg.

The Tössegger Castle was one of the four castles of the so-called "Nobles of Wildberg". In the village of Wildberg a branch of the family called itself “von Tössegg”.

When the ancestral castle of the Wildbergers burned down in the village of the same name, they bought Tössegg Castle from relatives in the Töss Valley .

Now in private ownership, it apparently served as a quarry when the factory was being built in the Tösstal; the moat was later filled in for agricultural reasons.

Web links

Burgenwelt: Tössegg Castle
Entry on the Tössegg ruins in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved January 24, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ General Secretariat of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport VBS, Federal Office for Topography swisstopo, Swiss Castle Association (ed.): Castle Map of Switzerland - East . Wabern 2007, ISBN 978-3-302-09802-9 .

[1] General Secretariat of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport VBS, Federal Office for Topography swisstopo, Swiss Castle Association (ed.): Castle Map of Switzerland - East . Wabern 2007, ISBN 978-3-302-09802-9 .