Salenstein Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Salenstein Castle lies in the municipality of Salenstein, in the district of Kreuzlingen, canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. Originally, two castles bearing the name ‘Salenstein’ stood in its immediate vicinity: the castle described here, Ober-Salenstein, and, further down the same rocky ridge on a spur of land, Nieder-Salenstein. The latter was broken in 1599 (indicated on David Herrliberger's engraving as a broken wall tooth behind a tree) and has since disappeared completely above ground; it lay near a farmhouse in the Hinderburg field. Roughly on the same line, on the other side of the ravine, stands the Mannenbach Chapel, which still exists and is also depicted by Herrliberger. It is said to have been founded in 1155 by the lords of Salenstein and contains medieval frescoes.