Meienberg Castle

Meienberg Castle is a spacious castle-like complex on Meienberg in Jona Rapperswil, parts of the Swiss municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen.
With the increasing industrialization, the majority of manufacturers settling in Rapperswil became citizens of Jona, where they could still acquire sufficient land, leading to the development of the manufacturers' villas Grünfels and Meienberg. Johann Jakob Staub acquired a piece of land on Meienberg, built an elegant country estate in Neoclassical style starting in 1828, and combined it with other plots to create a vast landscape park. Staub's daughter married the industrialist Jakob Braendlin-Näf, who was already living on Meienberg. In 1824, the monastery of Pfäfers sold the Meienberg terrace to the Braendlin brothers and the innkeeper Heussi. In the first half of the 19th century, the lower Meienberg belonged to the Helbling family. In 1912/13, the Swiss expatriate Albert Meyer-von Reutercrona acquired the Meienberg estate.

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