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Centuries – history castle

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Centuries – history castle

Once upon a time

Just take a stroll through the walls.
Really, we are 777 years old.
Honestly, you always discover something new.
Experience the real castle atmosphere.

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The most important cornerstones of the
History of Schloss Wartensee

The castle located high above Lake Constance – the Wart am See – is a testimony to an eventful structural past. Its current form is strongly influenced by its previous owners and their social relationships. This applies in particular to the Blarer von Wartensee families, who, as owners of the castle, expanded the castle into a triple residence from 1377 to 1719, as well as the English composer Robert Lucas Pearsall de Willsbridge, whose son from 1843 to 1853 turned the outdated buildings into today’s representative castle in neo-Gothic style Appearance remodeled.

2020777 years of Wartensee Castle

Just simple. Just honest. Just true. Just experience.
The Wartensee invites you to the castle festival.

Hotel of Opportunities2013

The engineer Urs Räbsamen becomes the new owner of Schloss Wartensee and has been running the castle as a hotel of possibilities ever since.

2011Closure of the meeting center

The conference and meeting center closes its doors in mid-December.

A new west wing in2008

Conversion and redesign of the studio as a tower lounge, renovation of the furnishings and artistic design of the castle chapel, redesign of the guest rooms in the west wing.

2007Certified and Awarded

Redesign of the guest rooms in the east and middle wing. Renewal of fire protection certification by the Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety. Renewed award with the quality seal level II from Switzerland Tourism. Awarded by Gastrosuisse with the hotel certification “Hot 3C garni”.

Castle park certification2004

Fire protection certification by the Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety. The castle park is certified as a nature park by the Nature and Economy Foundation.

2003Quality seal

Second level of the quality seal for Swiss tourism.
The most popular conference venue

The Most Popular Conference Venue2002

First place in the choice of the most popular conference venue of the year.

2000Swiss Tourism Award

First level of the quality label for Swiss tourism.

Conference and meeting center1984

The castle became the property of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of St. Gallen
over. It has the building in the years 1994-1996 through a generous renovation
adapted to the modern needs of a conference and meeting center and the
Transfer of operations management to a foundation.

1955Home and education center

After many changes of ownership, the property was bought by the Ostschweizerische Evangelische Heimstätte Schloss Wartensee and used as an educational center.

Baron Robert Lucas Pearsall 1843

The English Baron Robert Lucas Pearsall de Willsbridge, Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the property. After the death of his father, his son Robert Lucas redesigned the medieval castle complex into today’s castle with a neo-Gothic style. The park also dates from that era.

1757Sold to St.Gallen Abbey

The St. Gallen Monastery buys the castle from a private owner for 12,000 guilders.

Weddings1377

In that year two heir daughters of Wartensee married the two brothers Walter and Diethelm
von Blarer from St. Gallen. . Walter and Klara became the first parents of the Blarer von Wartensee family,
iwho owned the castle estates until 1719.

1243Heinrich von Wartensee

the western tower was built by knight Heinrich von Wartensee as a residential tower.

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