Grünenfels Castle (Ruin) (Waltensburg)

The origins of Grünenfels Castle date back to the late 12th century when it was built. During the first half of the 13th century, the complex was expanded with a main tower. The castle served as the ancestral seat of the Grünenfels family, first documented in 1257 with Conrad von Grünenfels. The family, belonging to the free nobility, could not ascend to the higher stratum of the noble freemen of the Vorderrheintal. After the extinction of the direct Grünenfels line, the castle passed through marriage and pledge into the possession of the Montalt family and later to Ulrich Walter von Belmont. In 1378, Grünenfels was sold to Ulrich Brun von Rhäzüns and integrated into the Jörgenberg dominion.