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Le château en bref
Werdegg Castle was a spur-type fortification, now vanished, built on a wooded, elongated hill at the entrance to Hittnau, in the Zurich Oberland, at an elevation of about 705 m. It is said to have been the residence of the knights of Werdegg, attested from 1229 to 1312, who served the Abbey of St Gallen and the counts of Rapperswil. Around 1322, a branch of the Landenberg family settled there. It then passed to the Breitenlandenberg (1383), to Zurich burgher Hans Göldi (1413), and then to the knights of Hinwil; it was destroyed in May 1444 by the Confederates during the Old Zurich War. Sold in 1486 to a peasant, the ruin served as a quarry. Only three ditches remain.