Uster Castle

Uster Castle is a hill fortress which turned into built probable around 1200 AD through the House of Rapperswil in the Swiss municipality of Uster inside the Canton of Zurich. Since 1995 it houses a boarding faculty. It is unsure who constructed the tower of Uster round 1200 AD, or maybe a good deal earlier, but it's secured that the House of Rapperswil had the proper of patronate of Uster church due to the fact approximately 1099 AD, in addition to lands in the present locality of Oberuster.

Some historians advocate a fief of the St. Gallen abbey to the lords of Winterthur after disputes in 1027 AD; the feud later might also belonged to the Kyburg family, and no longer, as tons of the encircling place, to the House of Rapperswil. It is not acknowledged whether the knights of Uster cited as ministerials of the lords of Schnabelburg in 1249, have had a dating with the citadel.

In 1267 the fort of Uster turned into claimed by the lords of Bonstetten which had been carefully associated with the ones of Schnabelburg. In 1267 seems Hermann von Bonstetten, referred to as von Uster respetively Ustra, in a document; in 1268 licensed Ita von Teufen, spouse of Johann von Wetzikon, two times on the Uster castle. In one of the documents, Hermann von Bonstetten is known as as a witness.