Wartensee Castle

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Wartensee Castle, aerial photo from 1931
View of a window in the western residential tower

The Wartensee castle is a historical building complex in Rorschacherberg . It goes back to a residential tower from the 13th century and is now privately owned as the Schloss-Hotel Wartensee. It should not be confused with Schloss Wartegg , which is also located in the municipality of Rorschacherberg.

history

The western tower was built in 1243 by knight Heinrich von Wartensee as a residential tower. With the marriage of two female descendants, the tower passed to the brothers Walter and Diethelm Blarer from St. Gallen in 1377. The Blarer von Wartensee family owned the Wartensee Castle until 1719 and expanded the castle into a triple residence. She sold her ancestral castle to Kaspar Jakob Segesser von Brunegg. 1757 sold his sons Franz Josef, Chur Bavarian Chamberlain and Franz Anton, Baden-Baden Colonel equerry Wartensee the pins St. Gallen to 12,000  fl. Characteristic of today's appearance was also the tags by the son of the English composer Robert Lucas Pearsall de Willsbridge between 1843 and 1853: This gave the castle its current neo-Gothic character and the surrounding park.

South facing room

After further changes of ownership, the property was taken over by the Ostschweizerische Heimstätte Schloss Wartensee association in 1955 and used as an educational center. In 1984, the Wartensee Castle became the property of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of St. Gallen, which - after extensive renovations between 1994 and 1996 - continued to operate it as a conference and meeting center until the end of 2011.

On March 11, 2012, the voters of Rorschacherberg approved a rezoning of the Wartensee property into a green zone. In the summer of 2012, the castle was finally sold to a private sponsor who reopened the Schloss-Hotel Wartensee in 2013.

literature

  • Peter Albertin: Wartensee Castle above Rorschach SG. A contribution to the historical development and significance. In: Middle Ages. Journal of the Swiss Castle Association. Vol. 2, No. 1, 1997, ISSN  1420-6994 , pp. 1-30, doi: 10.5169 / seals-164653 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schloss Wartensee historical overview on encounterplus.com (accessed on July 19, 2018)
  2. ↑ Everyone wants green on Wartensee St.Galler Tagblatt Online from February 9, 2012 (accessed on July 4, 2012)
  3. ↑ Three offers for Schloss Wartensee St.Galler Tagblatt Online from May 24, 2012 (accessed on July 4, 2012)

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '18.2 "  N , 9 ° 31' 51.7"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred twenty-four  /  two hundred and fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-six