En un regard
Le château en bref
The Burgstelle Unterer Wolfsberg is the site of a small medieval castle, now vanished, on a promontory at about 777 m above sea level, overlooking the Töss valley in the municipality of Bauma (Pfäffikon District, canton of Zurich). The mound, still clearly recognisable, is cut off from the slope by a ditch (Halsgraben) some 6 m deep and carries a central trapezoidal platform measuring about 26 × 27 m, with no visible masonry remains. The site is thought to have been the residence of the lords of Wolfsberg, a ministerial family first attested in 1233 by a charter naming H. de Wolvesberg and Baldebreth de Wolfsberg, under the authority of the counts of Rapperswil. Specialists are divided between this site and the neighbouring Wolfsberg upper mound, a simple motte, as the seat from which the lineage originated: if the family only became ministerial at a later date, the Lower Wolfsberg appears to be the more plausible candidate. The structure corresponds to the type of fortified house of noble retainers, very common in the Töss valley at that period. The site is open to the public free of charge and can be reached via a waymarked hiking trail from Bauma.
