Rapperswil Castle

Rapperswil Castle (Swiss German: Schloss Rapperswil) is a castle, built in the early 13th century by the House of Rapperswil, in the formerly independent city of Rapperswil.

The castle is located on the eastern Lake Zurich's western Obersee lakeshore in Rapperswil, a locality of the Rapperswil-Jona municipality in Switzerland's canton of St. Gallen.

Since 1870 the castle has been home to the Polish National Museum established by Polish émigrés, including the castle's lessee and restorer, Count Wladyslaw Broel-Plater. Schloss Rapperswil and the Museum are listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as Class A objects of national importance.

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Rapperswil Castle ranks #2,553 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #26 of the 91 mapped in Switzerland. Founded 1220, it is older than 78% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 356 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Switzerland compares in the castle statistics.

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