Dättnau Castle

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Dättnau Castle
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: departed
Standing position : Knight
Place: Winterthur - Dättnau

The Dättnau Castle is a high medieval castle that was lost in the Dättnauertal near the intersection of the Brüttem footpath and the path through the Dättnauertal at that time. It was located in what is now the Dättnau district of the city of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

history

A knight from Dättnau belonging to the ministeriales of Habsburg is mentioned for the first time on June 9, 1271 or 1272. Fifteen years later, between 1282 and 1288, a knight Peter von Dättnau is mentioned by name, probably the same as the one mentioned above who has his seat in the Dättnau Castle, which, according to Emil Stauber, was probably a pond or swamp castle in the form of a residential tower or a permanent house . This Peter von Dättnau also served as Ammann von Zug from 1282 to 1294 . Another well-known representative of the family whose son was Welti of Dättnau , of 1339 to the people of Zurich belongs citizens who the Knights Wisso, Heinrich Stagel and their allies in the introduction of Zürich's guild constitution have captured 1336 and kidnapped. He is also the last known representative of the von Dättnau family.

There are no more traces of Dättnau Castle today. Not far from Dättnau Castle on the Dättnauerberg , the Buch Castle of the von Brütten family, whose castle stables are still visible today, was built at the same time .

The ruins of Dättnau Castle on historical maps

literature

  • Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families (=  New Year's Gazette of the City of Winterthur . No. 285 ). Winterthur 1953, p. 49-51 .