Alt-Süns ruins

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Alt-Süns
Alt Süns Lage.jpg
Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Piping
Geographical location 46 ° 44 '58 "  N , 9 ° 26' 21"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '58 "  N , 9 ° 26' 21"  E ; CH1903:  752848  /  one hundred seventy-nine thousand five hundred and thirty-two
Height: 784  m above sea level M.
Alt-Süns ruins (Canton of Graubünden)
Alt-Süns ruins
Alt-Süns ruins

The Alt-Süns ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the western edge of the village of Paspels in Domleschg in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

location

The remains of the former castle are at 784  m above sea level. M. on a small hill in the municipality of Paspels and can be reached from the village via a short, steep footpath. Not far from the Alt-Süns ruins are the remains of Neu-Süns or Canova Castle in the south .

Castle complex

Only small remains of the strong Bering that once surrounded the elongated castle area have survived. On the lower lying plateau covered with rubble to the southwest, stables or farm buildings could possibly have stood. At the highest point of the complex in the northeast stood the imposing, massive residential tower ( keep ) with a square floor plan. The current state of preservation is unusual: two and a half pages are still at their original height, the rest has been removed to the ground. This image can also be found , for example, in the neighboring Canova Castle and is the sign of violent destruction in which the entire building was rendered unusable by tearing down one side of the tower.

Traces of the former high entrance can be seen on the trailing edge in the southwest . At the beam holes, three upper floors can be made out, which were separated from each other by wooden floors. The living rooms were on the third and fourth floors. Each storey was equipped with a toilet bay on the north side , some of the bay windows are still there. The bottom one was later bricked up. The different types of walls are interesting: on the lower floors Pietra Rasa , further up with grouting and at the top rubble stones and pebbles. Traces of a wooden arbor on the top floor can still be seen.

The inside of the walls shows traces of the former plaster. On the west side of the tower is a younger part of the curtain wall, which was built from large pebbles in a grain association .

history

No information is available about the origins of the castle; the visible walls are likely to have been built around 1200. The castle is believed to have been founded by the powerful barons of Vaz , whose possession it is documented in 1285 as castrum Sunnes . After the death of the last Vazer, Donat von Vaz, in 1337, the castle passed to the Lords of Werdenberg-Sargans . In 1365, Ursula von Werdenberg, b. Vaz and her son Johann were temporarily pledged to the House of Matsch ( … burg and vesti die old suns… ) and at the end of the century they returned to the Werdenbergers.

In 1452 the Alt-Süns castle fell victim to the shame feud, the revolt of the valley people against the rule of the Werdenberg family, like many other castles. The counts refrained from rebuilding, as this would have required a permit from the horror and the church association .

  • gallery

  • Beginning of the bering in Opus spicatum

  • North face

  • Aborterker

  • East wall

literature

  • Fritz Hauswirth: Castles and palaces in Switzerland . Volume 8. Neptun Verlag. Kreuzlingen, 1972
  • Otto P. Clavedetscher, Werner Meyer : The castle book of Graubünden . Zurich / Schwäbisch Hall, 1984
  • Werner Meyer: Castles of Switzerland . Volume 3. Silva Verlag. Zurich, 1983

Web links

Commons : Burg Alt-Süns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files