Schauensee Castle

Schauensee Castle is a fortress within the municipality of Kriens of the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It changed into first referred to in the 13^th century in reference to the Knight Rudolf von Schauensee and changed into in all likelihood built within the 13th century. By the beginning of the 14th century it become already in ruins. At the stop of the 16th century, Johannes von Mettenwyl received the complicated and rebuilt it, retaining simplest the tower from the original fortress.

In 1750 it was rebuilt to its current look below the "Meyer von Schauensee" family. The municipality of Kriens turned into able to acquire the "Schlössli" in 1963. Today, the castle is used for cultural occasions and as a reception corridor. The picturesque Schauensee Castle stands on a steep rocky promontory south of Kriens. To the south-east, it's far separated from Kriens Hill by way of a ditch dug artificially in the rock.

Current constructions, most effective the imposing round tower, made from carefully squared stones, dates again to the Middle Ages. All the other medieval factors having been demolished in the direction of the quit of the XVIth century already, it isn't always any more possible nowadays to make an precise concept of what this work changed into. The tower, whose walls are nearly two meters thick, turned into erected around the middle of the 13th century. It can handiest be entered from inside the most important constructing.