En un regard
Le château en bref
Greifensee Castle overlooks the shore of the lake of the same name, at the heart of a small fortified town. A defensive tower, attributed to the counts of Rapperswil, is mentioned there as early as the 12th century; in the 13th century the site became the centre of their estate in the Glatt valley. Pledged in 1300 to the Landenbergs, who fortified the town around 1340, it passed to the Toggenburgs and then to Zurich in 1402, which made it the seat of a bailiwick. Destroyed in 1444 during the former Zurich War, it was rebuilt in 1520 with a two-pitched roof with stepped gables. The seat of the Zurich bailiffs until 1798, it was bought back by the canton of Zurich in 1935; its manorial barn now houses a restaurant.