En un regard
Le château en bref
The Unteres Schloss (lower castle) of Turbenthal, in the Zurich Tösstal, was built around 1665 by the Breitenlandenberg, a branch of the von Landenberg family, following an inheritance division. The building changed purpose at the beginning of the twentieth century: from 1905 it housed a home for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, which was the starting point of the Schloss Turbenthal foundation and of the ‘deaf village’ (Gehörlosendorf). The workshops and businesses that grew up in this village were brought together in 1981 under the foundation, which today provides a place to live, train and work for some seventy deaf or hard-of-hearing people, often with associated disabilities. The castle thus remains a social landmark as well as an architectural one in the valley, and the foundation is among the major employers in the municipality.