Elgg Castle

Schloss Elgg is a castle in the municipality of Elgg in the Swiss canton of Zurich .

history

Elgg Castle 2011

Elgg Castle 1740

The castle was originally built as a castle and is located on an elevation in the south of the settlement. It was first mentioned in 1166 and until 1289 was the seat of the Meier Elggs under the St. Gallen Abbey . The Habsburgs held court here until 1425 , before jurisdiction passed to the people of Zurich, who used the building for this purpose until 1798.

In 1576 the castle was acquired by the Zurich banner owner Hans Heinrich Lochmann, who rebuilt it in 1580 and expanded it into a palace. He died childless in Padua in 1590. The Augsburg patricians Hans Heinrich and Hans Ludwig Heinzel von Tägernstein acquired the castle, but had to sell it in 1599 through their mother-in-law, Mrs. Magdalena Neidhart. In that year, the imperial council Bonaventura Bodeck acquired the castle and its jurisdiction. He died in 1629 and was buried in Elgg. Through his son Melchior Bodeck, the castle was sold to the governor Peter Sulzer von Winterthur in 1637. His sons got into severe financial distress due to speculation and guarantees, so that the castle was in a precarious condition in 1665.

With the help of a bogus promissory note, the abbot of St. Gallen succeeded in taking possession of the castle. A long-standing dispute broke out over this with the city of Zurich, which was only ended in 1670 when Hercules von Salis- Marschlins acquired the castle , who was accepted into Zurich's citizenship.

In 1712 the castle came to the Dutch major general Felix Werdmüller. This in his will in 1712 that the castle and reign as inalienable Fideikommiss remains in possession of the family Werdmüller. It is still owned by the castle today.

Today an inn is housed in the castle's former tithe barn.

Elgg Castle from the north
Gravestones of the Bodeck family, which were placed in the castle chapel after the church in Elgg was renovated in 1896

Web links

Commons : Schloss Elgg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Castle world: Elgg Castle

Individual evidence

[1] Neue Zürcher Zeitung

↑ Festschrift about Schloss Elgg, Elgg in July 1918 with numerous references to sources, u. a. K. Hauser: History of the city, rule a. Elgg municipality. Elgg 1895.

47.483416666667 8.8658333333333Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '0.3 " N , 8 ° 51' 57" E ; CH1903: 707,565 / two hundred sixty thousand one hundred sixty-one

[1] Festschrift about Schloss Elgg, Elgg in July 1918 with numerous references to sources, u. a. K. Hauser: History of the city, rule a. Elgg municipality. Elgg 1895.