Tellenburg Castle

Tellenburg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Frutigen inside the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The fort was constructed around 1200 through the Lords of Kien.After the Lords of Kien, the Lords of Wädenswil became the owners of the fortress. They had been observed by using the Lords of Turn in 1312 and then later via the metropolis of Bern. The original citadel was increased and repaired within the thirteenth or 14th centuries.

Under Bernese rule, the citadel served because the administrative seat of the encircling location until the creation of the Helvetic Republic in 1798. After 1798 it turned into used as a poor residence. In 1885, the citadel was gutted in a fireplace. It changed into in no way rebuilt and has slowly fallen into wreck. Tellenburg Castle turned into built as an place of business and toll station. Telle at beginning of the name likely comes from the German phrase for toll, Zoll, whilst burg certainly way citadel.