Castell Castle

Castell Castle is a castle in the municipality of Tägerwilen of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. East of the present-day castle can be found the ruins of the 12th-century Castell Castle, one of the largest defensive structures from the medieval period in the Lake Constance area.

Castell Castle, also known as Upper Castell , overlooks the village of Tägerwilen from a vantage point on the Thurgau Seerücken ridge. It dates back to the time of the Junker Konrad, Vogt of Wartenfels, an inhabitant of Konstanz, who in 1585 replaced an existing farmhouse with a manor house in late Renaissance style; this still forms the heart of the castle complex today. Before 1635, the castle passed into the possession of Beat Jakob Segesser von Brunegg, the Obervogt of Klingnau and Arbon. In 1661 the estate changed hands again, this time passing to the brothers Zollikofer von Altenklingen of St. Gallen, who had the castle remodelled in 1725.

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