Schloss Gottlieben TG, opposite Constance (D), with a direct connection to Seerhein connecting the Upper and Lower Lakes, is looking for new owners.
In the ad, “a new mansion that wants to restore the old substance with love and joy and live in a dream place. Owners were sought to make the property shine with new splendor.
mysterious castle
However, shopping tourists and Thurgau fans who find a bargain here will be disappointed. The purchase price is steep. Its owner wants 15-20 million francs for it. After all, there is still room for a new building of up to 1319 square meters. The castle has 32 rooms. However, it needs a serious renovation.
According to the Swiss Office of Monument Conservation, the construction of the castle was undertaken in 1251 by Bishop II of Constance. It was built by Eberhard. On Ginesta Immobilien’s real estate portal in Küsnacht ZH you can read that various ownership changes were tracked, up to the purchase of the property by Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), brother of Napoleon I (1769-1821). And in the 19th century he rebuilt the castle into a chateau in the neo-Gothic style.
Moat castle with Venetian magic
In 1950, Swiss opera singer Lisa Della Casa (1919-2012) and her husband Dragan Debeljevic (1921-2014) bought the castle. Lisa Della Casas died for the tenth time this Saturday.
The German regional newspaper “Südkurier” knows that today his only daughter, Vesna, lives in the historic estate in Seerhein. Almost no one is allowed to look behind walls more than 700 years old. This is probably why the building is also referred to as a water castle, mysteriously shrouded in Venetian magic. (euro)