Wartegg Castle (Rorschacherberg)

Wartegg Castle is a 16th-century castle in Rorschacherberg. It is not to be confused with the nearby Wartensee Castle.

Wartegg Castle was built around 1558 by the Blarer von Wartensee family. At the time of the French Revolution, members of the noble Bombelles family lived in the castle. Madame Angélique de Bombelles corresponded from there with Madame Elisabeth de France, the sister of King Louis XVI in the Tuileries in Paris.

Monseigneur Leclerc de Juigné sought refuge from the French Revolution in Wartegg Castle and Constance in August 1793.

In 1822, it passed into the possession of the von Thurn family, and in 1860 to the Regent of Parma, who was descended from the French King Louis XIV. Her granddaughter, Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, temporarily lived in exile at Wartegg Castle in 1919.

In 1924, the Bourbon family sold the castle, and a phase with different owners followed. In 1994, Wartegg Castle was finally bought by Christoph and Angelika Mijnssen and converted into a holiday and seminar hotel.