Elgg Castle

Elgg Castle is a castle in the town of Elgg, in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

The castle was originally built as a castle, situated on a hill in the south of the settlement. The first mention of it was in 1166 and was until 1289 the seat of the Meier Elggs under the Abbey of St. Gall. Until 1425 this kept the Habsburg court, before jurisdiction over went to Zurich, which until 1798 used the building for this purpose.

In 1576, the castle was acquired by Zurich Banner Hans Heinrich Lochmann, who expanded it in 1580 and rebuilt the castle. He died childless in 1590 in Padua. The Augsburg patrician Hans Heinrich and Hans Ludwig Heinzel of Tägernstein acquired the castle, had to sell it in 1599, however, by a mother of two, wife Magdalena Neidhart. This year, the Imperial Council Bonaventura Bodeck bought the castle, together with the jurisdiction. He died 1629 and was buried in Elgg. Through his son Melchior Bodeck the castle was sold in 1637 to the Governor Peter Sulzer of Winterthur. Sons of Peter Sulzer came through speculation and guarantees into severe financial distress, so that the castle in 1665 was in a precarious condition.

WIth the help of a bogus debt certificate succeeded the abbot of St. Gallen, to come into the possession of the castle. In kindled with the city of Zurich a long-standing dispute, which was only in 1670 when acquiring the lock by Hercules von Salis - Marschlins, who was admitted to the Zurich civil rights terminated.

1712 the castle came to the Dutch Major General Felix Werdmüller. This in his will in 1712 that the castle and the rule remains as inalienable Fideikommiss in possession of the Wertmueller family. She is in possession of the castle until today ..

Grave stones of Bodeck family, which were erected in the chapel after renovation of the church in Elgg 1896