Documentary
Freienstein Castle

 Freienstein Castle: Robber Barons and Swords

Running time: 22 minutes

Language: German/Swiss-German

Available subtitles: German / English / French / Italian / Spanish 

Myths and legends, excavations and finds, the history of the castle and its destruction: 

We get to the bottom of all these things in this documentary. 

For the documentary we had archaeologists and historians in front of the camera and a reconstruction of the castle as an animation is also available. 

We hope you enjoy watching it.

Credits:

Producer, Camera, Editing & Direction - Gregor Bächi 

Drone shots - Lukas Schuler, Stephan Roos, Daniel Hager 

Animations - Pascal Willi 

Music - Kel Amrûn (www.kelamrun.ch)

Narrator - Roy Gablinger

Assistant director - Susanne Bächi

Additional sound editing - Philipp Böhlen

French subtitles editor - Karen Torres

Italian subtitle editor - Mark Rossi

Spanish subtitles editor - Hatay Sanchez

English subtitles editor - Trevor Franklin

Youtube thumbnail - Tolis Dokianos

Photography - Martin Meier 

Research - Gregor Bächi, Martin Meier 

Werner Lienhard - Local historian

Werner Wild - Archaeologist

Christian Winkel - Excavation Technician

Peter Niederhäuser - Historian

Cantonal Archaeology Zurich - Website

Winterthur City Archives - Website