Girsberg Castle

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Le château en bref

Girsberg Castle stands on a drumlin, a moraine hill, overlooking the Stammheim valley in the canton of Zurich, north of the hamlet of Girsberg. Its oldest part is a residential tower of elongated rectangular plan, built around 1250. In 1253, the knight Niklaus von Girsberg takes the name of the site, to which no seigneurial right of jurisdiction was attached. Farm buildings were subsequently added to the west of the tower, while a residential wing was erected to the east; a well 40 metres deep ensured the water supply. After the extinction of the lords of Girsberg in the 14th century, the castle passed to the lords of Schwandegg, then to various noble and bourgeois families, including the Giel von Glattburg, the Stockar and the Im Thurm. The residential wing, partly destroyed by a fire in 1756, was rebuilt. The estate has belonged to the Bodmer family since 1919.