Wartegg Castle

West facade with main entrance

The Wartegg Castle is a castle from the 16th century in Rorschacherberg , St. Gallen in the Swiss canton. It should not be confused with the nearby Schloss Wartensee .

history

Elisabeth de France from the Tuileries to her childhood friend at Schloss Wartegg

Wartegg Castle was built around 1558 by the Blarer von Wartensee family. At the time of the French Revolution , members of the noble Bombelles family lived in the castle. Madame Angélique de Bombelles corresponded from there with Madame Elisabeth de France , the sister of King Louis XVI. in the Tuileries in Paris.

Monseigneur Leclerc de Juigné went to Schloss Wartegg and Konstanz in August 1793 before the French Revolution .

In 1822 it passed into the possession of the von Thurn family, and in 1860 to the regent of Parma, who was descended from the French King Louis XIV . Her granddaughter, Empress Zita von Bourbon-Parma , lived temporarily in exile in 1919 in Schloss Wartegg.

In 1924 the Bourbon family sold the castle and a phase with different owners followed. In 1994, the Wartegg Castle was finally bought by Christoph and Angelika Mijnssen and converted into a holiday and seminar hotel.