Schloss Au

Geschichte

The Schloss Au, literally "Château Au", is a country estate located in Au, a locality of the municipality of Wädenswil in Switzerland. The spacious estate is situated on the Au Peninsula on Zürichsee lake shore in the Canton of Zurich.ArchitectureIn the 1650s Hans Rudolf Werdmüller built a villa in the Venetian style. In 1928/29 it was rebuilt as a neo-baroque villa, constructed by the architect Johann A. Freytag who also integrated the so-called 1720s Werdmüller-Trotte in the north. The main building is characterized by two magnificent loggias on the north and south. To the west the main tower rises, in the eastern courtyard a round tower is situated. The château includes approximately 50 rooms that are partly equipped with marble floors, carpets and objets d'art from the old country house. In the late-1980s its interior partially was renewed to house a conference center. The public access to the château is restricted, but particularly the spacious park and the tower-like Gugger dwelling house on the peninsula's southern slope are further popular points of interest.