Cagliacha Castle

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Cagliacha
Cagliacha Castle

Cagliacha Castle

Creation time : around 1265
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Construction: Blocks in stock, corner stones with chipped edges
Place: Other
Geographical location 46 ° 36 '50 "  N , 9 ° 25' 20"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '50 "  N , 9 ° 25' 20"  E ; CH1903:  751,934  /  one hundred and sixty-four thousand four hundred thirty-five
Height: 1182  m above sea level M.
Cagliatscha Castle (Canton of Graubünden)
Cagliacha Castle

The Cagliatscha Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the municipality of Andeer , fraction Clugin , in Schams in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

location

The ruins of Cagliatscha Castle are 1182  m above sea level. M. between Andeer and Clugin on a ledge high above the valley. It can be easily reached from Clugin via a hiking trail in a good twenty minutes. In front of the ruins is a picnic area with a fireplace and a fountain.

investment

From the originally five-story defense tower, only the approximately 8.5-meter-long southeast wall has survived, as well as the approaches to the adjacent walls. On the inside, the division of the floors can be read off from the plaster. The wall thickness is 2.3 meters below and tapers towards the top to 1.75 meters. The different colored stones from which the tower was built are striking. The corner stones, long bosses , have a precise edge.

The mighty keep was surrounded on the top two floors by a wide wooden defensive arbor. The original high entrance to the tower was on the second floor of the north-east wall and was probably moved to the third floor for strategic reasons. Half of it has been preserved at the demolition edge. There were no traces of a ring . A dendrochronological examination of a roof beam showed that it was built in 1266. This makes the roof of Cagliatscha the oldest original roof structure in Switzerland.

history

Documentary evidence about the origin and history of the tower of Cagliatscha is completely missing. A local sex of ministerials of the barons of Vaz is to be assumed as the builder ; possibly the respected Schamser family Panigad, who owned goods in Clugin and whose coat of arms, along with others, is carved into the plastering on the third floor. A dendrochronological examination of a larch beam showed that it was built around 1265. It can be assumed that the tower was destroyed in connection with the shame feud ; Rock debris still lies in the ravine below the ruins. Ulrich Campell mentions it around 1570 as Castellatsch, i.e. as a bad, destroyed castle.

In 1984/85 the tower was secured by the Graubünden Castle Association and a bridge was built over the neck ditch . In the spring of 2009 a plaque was set up near the ruins with extensive information about the construction and history of the castle.

The area in the northwest of the ruin is called Padnal, which indicates a prehistoric settlement.

gallery

  • View from the west

  • Wall from the east

  • inside

  • Schartenfenster, Rasa-Pietra with grouting

  • Rasa-Pietra on different colored stones

  • SW corner with flanged edge

  • South wall

Web links

Commons : Cagliatscha Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Otto P. Clavadetscher , Werner Meyer : The castle book of Graubünden . Zurich / Schwäbisch Hall 1984.
  • Fritz Hauswirth : Castles and Palaces of Switzerland. Volume 8: Graubünden . Kreuzlingen 1972.
  • Middle Ages. In: Journal of the Swiss Castle Association 2009/4.