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Wartensee Castle

Rorschacherberg

The castle high above Lake Constance.

The congress and meeting centre located high above Lake Constance - the watcher at the lake - is witness to a moving constructional past.

Its current appearance is strongly influenced by its earlier owners and their social relationships. This especially refers to the Blarer von Wartensee family, who, as owners of the castle from 1377 to 1719, remodelled the castle into a three party residence, as well as the English composer Robert Lucas Pearsall de Willsbridge, whose son renovated the castle, from 1843 to 1853, into its modern appearance as a representative neo-gothic style castle.

In 1984, the castle passed into the possession of the evangelical church of the Canton of St.Gallen. It generously renovated the building into a congress and meeting centre to match the needs of the community in the years 1994-1996 and then passed the administration of the building into the hands of a foundation.

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Contact Information

Schloss Wartensee
Postfach 264
9404 Rorschacherberg
Tel. +41 (0) 71 858 73 73
Fax +41 (0) 71 858 73 70
schloss@wartensee.ch
www.wartensee.ch

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How to get there

By public transports:
Rorschach-Heiden-cog railway, get off at Wartensee near the castle

By car:
From St.Gallen

Motorway A1 exit Nr. 84:Kreuzlingen/Arbon/Rorschach
Exit Nr. 3: Rorschach/Mörschwil/Tübach/Goldachround about
First traffic light: turn right into the direction of Untereggen/train station
After railroad crossing: turn left into the direction of Rorschacherberg
At the multipurpose facility: right up the hill to Heiden/Wartensee
Turn off: left to the direction of Thal/Wartensee
Parking next to the castle

From St.Margrethen:

Motorway A1 exit Nr. 85: Rorschach/Rheineck
Turn right into the direction of Rorschach/Altenrhein
Pass the round about into the direction of Rorschach until you get to Staad
150m after the Hotel "Weisses Rössli" in Staad: up the hill to the left and across the railroad crossing into the direction of Buechen/Thal
Through Buechen direction of Thal
At the top of the hill turn right towards Wartensee. Parking next to the castle