Seeburg Castle

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Le château en bref

Seeburg Castle, in Kreuzlingen (Thurgau), stands in the park of the same name on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance; until the banks were built up in the 1960s, it stood directly on the lake's edge. It originated as a country residence called Neuhorn, built in 1598 for a family from Konstanz. Set alight by the Swedes in 1633, it was rebuilt in 1664 by the Kreuzlingen monastery, whose abbots made it their summer residence. From 1833 to 1850, the building housed the first teacher-training seminary of the canton of Thurgau. In the 1870s it was extended to the south and converted into a Historicist villa, then restored in the early 1980s. A gabled house with stepped gables and corner turrets on corbels, the castle is listed as a cultural property of national significance. It now belongs to the town of Kreuzlingen, which rents it out for a restaurant and events.