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Le château en bref
Bachtobel Castle stands on the southern slope of the Ottenberg, west of Weinfelden (Thurgau), amid vineyards. Together with a few farms, it formed the former jurisdictional lordship of Bachtobel, also called Oberboltshausen, and it may occupy the site of an earlier residence of the lords of Boltshausen. Passing from the Göldlin family to the Ebinger von Steisslingen in 1659, it was sold in 1784 to Landrichter Johann Ulrich Kesselring, whose family still owns it. The present building, dating from the sixteenth century, was remodelled around 1820 into an elegant small château in the Biedermeier style, under a Mansard roof; dendrochronological analysis dates the roof timbers and a half-timbered section of the second floor to 1795–1796. The farm building of 1804 houses large tree presses, over ten metres long, dated 1584 and 1729. The Schlossgut Bachtobel, a flagship of the Ottenberg wine region, is a renowned wine estate; the castle itself serves as a residence. Listed as protected, it is among the Swiss cultural properties of national importance.