PAINTED, PAINTED OVER AND UNCOVERED
No one knew that the wall in the Landvogtstube was once painted until the plaster flaked off at one point during the renovation of the castle in 2014, exposing parts of an old script. In 2016 an uncovering project was financed by the Friends of Werdenberg Castle and the Canton of St. Gallen.
Behind the layer of paint, which was probably applied immediately after the last bailiff in Werdenberg left around 1798, a moving story came to light during: in the decorated text banderoles, the Glarus bailiff Johann Peter König (1711-1713) laments the loss of his son Fridolin, who was killed in 1712 on his way to Lake Constance.
