Wartegg Castle
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
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.
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Web links
- Web presence of Schloss Wartegg
- Lorenz Hollenstein: Wartegg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Arthur Kobler: The Schloss Wartegg - history, residents, guests, St. Gallen 2005, (first edition 1995), ISBN 3-9523018-0-9 , p. 53f.