Schloss Eugensberg

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Le château en bref

Eugensberg Castle stands in a large wooded clearing in the municipality of Salenstein (Thurgau), within the castle landscape of the Untersee. It is named after Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg and stepson of Napoleon, for whom the central block was built in 1819–1821; the architect is not known. This Empire-style building has three storeys under a hipped roof and a facade of 7 × 3 window axes. Its entrance projection takes the form of a temple pediment with colossal pilasters. In 1916–1918, the owner Hippolyt Saurer had it extended in a historicist style by the Zurich architects Streiff and Schindler, who added single-storey wings that give it its three-wing plan. Bought in 1948 by the Diakonieverband Ländli, which established a convalescent home there, the castle was then owned from 1990 to 2017 by Rolf Erb, who had it restored in 1990–1992 and added a swimming pool and leisure facilities. It was sold in 2019 as part of the bankruptcy of its owner. The park includes an English garden, a French garden and a pavilion with Doric columns dating from 1915. The building is protected and classified as “particularly valuable”.