Gottlieben Castle
That God loves Castle is a castle on the eastern edge of the small community on the banks of loving God Seerhein in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland.
History
The former water castle with two towers was built in 1251 by the Bishop of Constance Eberhard II, together with a wooden bridge over the Rhine. Thus the bishop wanted the city of Constance, with the city's governors he was in dispute compete. The two land-side corner towers of the middle 13th century, formed together with the dazugefügtem 1346 and 1352/55 partially destroyed palace, the east wing of 1434-46 and the north wing of 1475-91 a powerful, from a battlement umzogene Wasserburg.
During the Council of Constance was the reformer Jan Hus, Jerome of Prague and later deposed Pope John XXIII in the prison of the west tower. imprisoned. From 1499 to 1798 Gottlieben Castle was the seat of the Bishop's senior bailiff.
After his mother Hortense de Beauharnais death thought Prince Louis, later Napoleon III. to an alternative residence to the castle arenas mountain and bought castle God loving, but he lived only briefly. In the 19th century the castle was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style. When remodeling tracery windows were used from the 1824 spent cloister of the Cathedral of Constance.
1926 acquired in 1916 emigrated to Switzerland Wilhelm Muehlon that God loves Castle. In the long run Muehlon seemed the proximity to the border too dangerous and he gave this residence in September 1939 in favor of a domicile in Klosters in the Grisons mountains on.
1950 acquired the Swiss opera singer Lisa Della Casa with her husband Dragan Debeljevic that God loves Castle. It is not accessible to the public.