Sonnenberg Castle

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Le château en bref

Perched above Stettfurt, in the canton of Thurgau, Sonnenberg Castle is the former seat of a lower seigneurial jurisdiction. Its present form dates from the reconstruction that followed the fire of 1595: a large main building with stepped gables, extended to the west by a horseshoe-shaped wing around a courtyard dominated by a lion fountain, with a round tower to the south-east and a square oriel tower to the north-east. On the upper floor, a stuccoed and painted state room adjoins a vaulted private chapel. Long held by noble families (Ramschwag, Landenberg, Knöringen, Zollikofer), the estate passed in 1678 to a group of Catholic monasteries and then to the Abbey of Einsiedeln, which installed an administrator there. Protected by the canton, the castle now houses a restaurant.