Wetzikon Castle

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Wetzikon Castle

The Schloss Wetzikon is in Wetzikon in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich .

history

First built by the nobles of Wetzikon as a permanent castle with two towers on a small hill surrounded by an oval moat and which could be flooded by the nearby Ettenhauserbach. Kaspar Schwerter reports on the location of the castle in his chronicle. After the barons of Wetzikon, the castle came to the lords of Breitenlandenberg around 1430. Later it is shown in Gerold Edlibach's coat of arms around 1493. Under the junker Hans Rudolf von Meiß, the castle was redesigned from 1614 to 1617 into a homely noble residence. He had his alliance coat of arms with his wife Maria von Ulm placed above the main portal. In 1755, the bell founder Hans Jakob Koller acquired the castle and the court rulership for 17,000 guilders . After several changes of ownership from 1790 onwards, it has been privately owned since 1907.

literature

  • Fritz Hauswirth: The castles and palaces of Switzerland , Volume 4 Zurich / Schaffhausen, Neptun Verlag Kreuzlingen, 1968

Web links

Commons : Wetzikon Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Wetzikon Castle website

Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '32.6 "  N , 8 ° 47' 55.5"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and two thousand eight hundred twelve  /  242540