Waldegg Castle (Lachen)

Waldegg Castle was built around 1475 by the St. Gallen merchants Stefan Grübel and Konrad Enggasser on princely abbey territory outside the city of St. Gallen. As early as 1505, it came into princely abbey possession and thereafter served as the seat of the Landeshofmeister until, due to the dissolution of the princely abbey, like many other buildings, the castle was taken over by the newly founded Canton of St. Gallen. In 1825, the industrialist Jakob Täschler acquired it, who added a red dye works and, among other things, also built the nearby Tröckneturm. In 1901, the castle and the attached factory fell victim to a fire. The glowing walls up to the 2nd upper floor were reused and provided with a new superstructure. The architect of this renewal was the well-known church architect August Hardegger (1858 - 1927).

The renovation of 1997/98, commissioned by an international trading company, included, in addition to an exterior renovation according to monument preservation principles, the complete modernization of the entire building technology. In numerous representative rooms, Hardegger's woodwork and decorative paintings were also uncovered and restored, or partially reconstructed. In connection with the renewal of the facade plaster, the late medieval masonry with various earlier door and window openings was documented by drawing and photography on behalf of the Cantonal Archaeology SG.