Gottlieb Castle

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Gottlieb Castle seen from the Seerhein

The Gottlieben Castle is a castle on the eastern outskirts of the village Gottlieben on the banks of Seerhein in Canton Thurgau , Switzerland .

history

construction

The former moated castle with two towers was built in 1251 by Bishop Eberhard II von Waldburg from Constance , together with a wooden bridge over the Rhine. The bishop wanted to compete with the nearby city of Constance, with whose citizenship he was in dispute. The two landside corner towers from the middle of the 13th century together with the palace added in 1346 and partly destroyed again in 1352/1355, the east wing from 1434 to 1446 and the north wing from 1475 to 1491 formed a mighty moated castle surrounded by a battlement.

Jan Hus prison

View of Gottlieben Castle from 1836
Reconstruction drawing of the medieval castle (Ludwig Leiner, 1885)

During the Council of Constance , the reformer Johannes Hus , Hieronymus von Prag and the fled and deposed Pope Johannes XXIII were in the prison of the west tower . who had originally called the council and invited Hus. The inaccessible Hussenkerker is located in the attic of the western tower. From 1499 to 1798 Gottlieben Castle was the seat of the bishop's chief bailiff.

Other owners

After the death of his mother Hortense de Beauharnais , Prince Louis, who later became Napoleon III, thought . moved to an alternative residence to Arenenberg Castle and bought Gottlieben Castle, which he only lived in for a very short time. In the 19th century the castle was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style. During the renovation, tracery windows from the cloister of the Constance Minster , which burned down in 1824, were used.

In 1926, the German diplomat Wilhelm Muehlon, who emigrated to Switzerland in 1916, acquired Gottlieben Castle. In 1932 he brought the castle into the "Schloss Gottlieben AG". In the long run, however, the proximity to the border seemed too dangerous for Muehlon and he gave up this residence in September 1939 in favor of a domicile in Klosters in the Graubünden mountains.

In 1950 the Swiss opera singer Lisa della Casa and her husband Dragan Debeljevic acquired “Schloss Gottlieben AG” and thus Schloss Gottlieben. It is not accessible to the public.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board on the Lake Constance circular route at the castle
  2. ↑ Gottlieben Castle. In: Ulrich Büttner and Egon Schwär: Konstanz Council story (s). Stadler Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2014, pp. 49–51.
  3. ↑ Sandra Pfanner: The secret tower in Thurgau. In: Südkurier , April 14, 2015.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '50 "  N , 9 ° 8' 10"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred and ninety-eight  /  280629