Wandelberg Castle Site

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Le château en bref

Wandelburg (Burg Wandelberg) was a marshland castle, now entirely vanished, about 600 m south of the church of Benken (canton of St Gallen), at an altitude of 423 m. It occupied a sandstone outcrop some thirty metres wide and about a dozen metres high, which formed an island or a peninsula on the shore of Lake Tuggen, which was filled in during the 16th century. A sketch from 1864 shows an elongated building at the western end of the outcrop and a larger structure, protected by a shield wall, at the foot of the mound. The last remnants of masonry disappeared in the 19th century, and the north-eastern half of the rock was quarried.