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Seeburg Kreuzlingen
Seeburg Castle (Schloss Seeburg) is a manor-style castle in the municipality of Kreuzlingen, Canton Thurgau, Switzerland, and is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The building now serves as a meeting space and restaurant and sits within formal gardens.
Its prime
1890
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1890
What Seeburg Kreuzlingen looked like in its prime.
A pale plastered, multi-storey manor with a complex roofline: steep slate roofs, small conical corner towers with tall finials, and a pronounced stepped gable with a row of short chimneys. A long, glazed wooden gallery/covered walkway projects from the midsection and connects to a low gate-tower with a bulbous, copper-clad roof. The main façade has regularly spaced wooden shutters and an arched stone entrance at ground level. The house stands behind a balustraded terrace, clipped topiary and an open lawn with a domed pavilion.
Its story
The story of Seeburg Kreuzlingen.
The first schloss on this Lake Constance shore, called Neuhorn, was built in 1598 by Jakob Atzenholz-Zollikofer of Constance and later served as the summer residence of the abbots of the Kreuzlingen Augustinian abbey. It burned out completely in 1633 and was rebuilt in 1664 by Abbot Augustin Gimmi as a plain cube with a gabled roof inside a square enclosure wall.
From 1833 it housed the Thurgau teachers' seminary under the pedagogue Johann Jacob Wehrli, passing to the canton in 1848 when the abbey was dissolved. Sold in 1852, it was rebuilt in its present historicist form in 1870 for Gottfried Ferdinand Amman to plans by the Winterthur architect Ernst Jung, whose son August laid out the lakeside park in 1894–95.
The town of Kreuzlingen bought the Seeburg in 1958, the citizens' vote carried by just twenty-eight ballots, and restored it thoroughly in 1982–84. A restaurant has operated in the schloss since 1993, and each summer since 1990 the See-Burgtheater has staged open-air productions in the park beside it.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1890.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at Seeburg Kreuzlingen, including 1 interior: enclosed glazed wooden gallery (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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