Ruin
Hohensax Castle
🇨🇭 Switzerland · 12th century
Hohensax (German: Ruine Hohensax or German: Burg Hohensax) is a ruined castle in the Sennwald municipality in the Swiss canton St. Gallen.
The castle was built around 1200 by the barons of Sax, and was destroyed in 1446.
In 1248, the castle passed to Ulrich von Sax, founder of the Sax-Hohensax line of the noble family.
Text adapted from “Hohensax Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hohensax Castle ranks #3,449 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #85 of the 91 mapped in Switzerland. Founded 1200, it is older than 81% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 194 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Switzerland compares in the castle statistics.
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