Burgstelle Gamser

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Le château en bref

The Burgstelle Gamser is an abandoned earthwork fortification with no visible masonry, built on a spur of the Eschenberg, about 4 km south of Winterthur, within a bend of the Töss. The spur drops more than 100 m on three sides. The complex comprises two ditches, two ramparts and an almost circular plateau some twenty metres in diameter at its tip, probably the core of the fortification, with a small plateau to the west that may have served as access. No written source mentions the site and no lord is documented. An older hypothesis links it to the wood-and-earth phase of Kyburg before its destruction in 1027, and a connection with the Gans/Ganser family remains uncertain. In the mid-nineteenth century, A. Nüscheler reported traces of tower foundations near the outer rampart, which have since disappeared.