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View of Ober-Salenstein Castle

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View of Ober-Salenstein Castle

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  • Location: Salenstein, Bezirk Kreuzlingen, Thurgau, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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    May 19, 2025

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    View of Salenstein
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    April 25, 2023

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    The castle / fortress was built sometime in or around the early 11th century. It originally belonged to the ministers of the German island Reichenau and the ownership of it has changed several time over the last 900 years. Eventually the castle was given to the City of Winterthur Departement of Culture and Art. It is currently decaying rapidly and one *cannot* go inside the castle.

    May 20, 2025

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    Two castles called "Salenstein" originally stood nearby: the Ober-Salenstein Castle described here, and, on a spur of the same rocky ridge further down, the Nieder-Salenstein Castle, which was destroyed in …
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    Location: Salenstein, Bezirk Kreuzlingen, Thurgau, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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