Weinfelden Castle

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Weinfelden, Storchenstrasse. Weinfelden Castle in the background (Apr. 2011)
Weinfelden Castle
Weinfelden Castle on Ottenberg

The Schloss Weinfelden is located on a hill of the Ottenberg above the town of Weinfelden in the Swiss canton of Thurgau .

history

The builders of the first castle, Castrum Winvelde, are not known, but in 1180 Hartmann von Kyburg handed over the third part of the castle to the Bishop of Constance, Berthold von Bussnang . This third division made it difficult for the successors to agree on a uniform line. In 1339 the castle came into the possession of Friedrich Bussnang (noble family) as a Habsburg fief . However, he did not live in the castle, but like his son Albrecht (1359) in Neuchâtel Castle. He made Weinfelden Castle a widow's residence for his wife Kunigunde. The expansion of the castle goes back to the Lords of Bussnang.

After the destruction of the ancestral castles Bussnang and Neuchâtel Castle, the descendant Hans von Bussnang sold the Burg and Herrschaft Weinfelden to Berthold Vogt von Konstanz in 1435. When the Swiss became the owners, he paid the 2,000 guilders pillage in order to be able to keep shares. In 1466 he sold to Christian Kornfeil from Wiler. He exercised his rights particularly strictly so that he quickly became unpopular, so, among other things, he was allowed to run out of wine without further ado ... he sold to Ulrich Muntprat von Salenstein and emigrated to Austria. In 1514, Muntprat allowed the parish to appoint a parish council, and in 1519 he demanded the delivery of 50 logs a year. In 1542 the Muntprat united the entire property and sold it in 1551 to Hans Dietrich von Gemmingen , who then in 1555 to Jakob Fugger from Augsburg who, however, immediately resold it. He wanted to have the archive removed, but lightning struck the loaded wagon and the documents burned. In 1572 Arbogast von Schellenberg acquired the rule. In 1577 Eberhard , Reinhard and Hans Walter von Gemmingen acquired the rule and had it administered by the reformed Obervogt Thomas Kesselring.

In 1644 the city of Zurich acquired the castle and the Weinfelden estate from the barons of Gemmingen . The castle became the seat of the bailiff again . In 1798 the subject relationship was canceled and the village of Weinfelden bought the extensive forests on the Ottenberg. Later the castle changed hands several times.

In 1972 the Munich heir August von Finck senior (1898–1980) renovated the castle. He was one of Adolf Hitler's supporters at the secret meeting of February 20, 1933 , his private bank Merck Finck & Co owned the Jewish banking house SM v. Rothschild " Aryanized ". On December 1, 1972, Finck received approval from the Federal Department of Justice and Police to purchase it - although it was criticized throughout the country because the “ Lex von Moos ” forbade the sale of properties to foreigners. He paid 340,000 francs for the castle, land and forest. In the 1980 estate, the property was valued at 4,747,000 francs; after his death, the son of the same name August von Finck junior (* 1930) took over the castle. The tower was given a pointed helmet again and the main building was made habitable. In a new renovation in 1997, the interior was redesigned.

Bachtobel Castle is also located on the Ottenberg .

literature

  • Heini Giezendanner: Castles and palaces in Thurgau. Huber, 1997
  • Fritz Hauswirth: Castles and palaces in Thurgau. Gaisberg Verlag, Kreuzlingen 1960
  • The castles and palaces of Switzerland, Canton Thurgau I and II. Birkhäuser and Cie, Basel 1931–1932

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JA Pupikofer , Geschichte Des Thurgaus, p. 516
  2. ↑ Without author: Weinfelden, presented according to its current state and previous fate. In: Volume 6 of the Thurgauisches Neujahrsblatt, 1829, p. 10
  3. ^ Roman Sandgruber : Rothschild. Glory and decline of the Viennese world house. Molden Verlag, Vienna, 2018 ISBN 978-3-222-15024-1 .
  4. ↑ https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/arbon-kreuzlingen-weinfelden/das-erbe-des-schlossherrn-ld.880230

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '37 "  N , 9 ° 6' 31.4"  E ; CH1903:  725647  /  270921