Alt-Montfort
| Alt-Montfort castle ruins | ||
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 A wall remnant with loopholes |
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| Alternative name (s): | Altmontfort | |
| Creation time : | before 1208 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | hamlet | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 18 '42.4 " N , 9 ° 39' 57.7" E | |
| Height: | 763 m above sea level A. | |
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Alt-Montfort Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle between Weiler and Fraxern in the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley . Hugo III von Tübingen , who later called himself Hugo I von Montfort, had it built at the end of the 12th century, in 1206 or 1208 the castle was first mentioned in a document.
Surname
“Montfort” is a modification of the Latin terms mons (mountain) and fortis (brave, strong), so roughly “Starkenberg”. The “ Counts of Montfort ” called themselves after this residence .
history
In 1375 Duke Leopold III took over. of Austria the castle. The castle complex was completely destroyed during the Appenzell War in 1405. In 1417 the castle came into the possession of the Toggenburg counts and in 1436 into the possession of Duke Friedrich IV of Austria. From 1679 the Clary-Aldringen family owned the castle. Michael Fink became the owner in 1837. Today only a few remains of the wall are preserved and recognizable.
literature
- Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg castles . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7030-0953-2 , pp. 162–168.
- Joseph Zösmair: About the castles Alt- and Neu-Montfort in Vorarlberg , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 10th year 1880, pp. 123-144 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blumenegg (by Alois Niederstätter) ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 49 kB)
- ↑ Burg Alt-Montfort on burgenwelt.org
- ↑ Alt-Montfort, Untere Borg (hamlet) ( Memento from May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
