Frauenberg Castle (Ruschein)

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Frauenberg Castle
Frauenberg Castle from the outside, before the archway was renewed in 2014

Frauenberg Castle from the outside, before the archway was renewed in 2014

Alternative name (s): Frundsberg
Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Intoxication
Geographical location 46 ° 47 '2.8 "  N , 9 ° 11' 18.6"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '2.8 "  N , 9 ° 11' 18.6"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-three thousand six hundred and thirteen  /  182927
Height: 1205  m
Frauenberg Castle (Canton of Graubünden)
Frauenberg Castle

The Castle Frauenberg is the ruins of a hilltop castle in Ruschein (municipality Ilanz / Glion ) in the Surselva in the Swiss canton of Grisons .

The term “Frundsberg” sometimes used today goes back to an idea of ​​the chronicler Ulrich Campell after 1570, who thought he read the ancestral seat of the mercenary leader Georg von Frundsberg in the name of the castle ( vrôvinberc ) . However, this theory is now considered untenable and apparently went back to a reading error. The Frundsberg castle was in Mindelheim in Germany, Georg von Frundsberg himself lived in southern Bavaria.

location

The ruin is 1205  m above sea level. M. on the hill Plontabuora southwest of the village and can be easily reached in a few minutes from the village center.

investment

The remains of a square of about 21 by 16.5 meters have been preserved from the former castle complex, the wall thickness is around 1.5 meters. The walls are built using the continuous Opus spicatum technique. The gate is in the north-western wall, the trimmings have broken out. On the plateau there are small remains of an enclosing wall . An exact dating of the building is not possible without excavations. The opus spicatum technique and the gate construction point to a time around the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries.

Up until a closer examination in 2013, ideas about the appearance of the castle were based on residential buildings leaning against the wall and less on a roof, comparable to the system in Valendas Castle . However, the analysis from 2013/2014 with a partial exposure clearly postulated a wooden structure on the wall square. It was hardly a fortified castle.

In 2014, the renovation of the castle gate was completed and the barrier beam channel restored.

history

The griffin as the coat of arms of the Freiherren von Wildenberg , Freiherren von Greifenstein and Frauenberger

The Lords of Frauenberg were probably a branch of the Barons of Sagogn , who had formed around 1250 after an inheritance had been divided. The castle was the ancestral seat of the Herren von Frauenberg, first attested in 1257. Its first representative mentioned in a document was Heinrich von Frauenberg, who is mentioned from 1257 to 1266. He was probably identical with Heinrich von Sagogn. In addition to Frauenberg, the family owned Felsberg Castle as well as goods and rights in Luzein , Castrisch and Falera .

Heinrich von Frauenberg in the Codex Manesse

In the history of Raetia , the Frauenbergs played an important role and often appeared as witnesses. The most important representative of the sex was probably Heinrich II (occupied from 1284 to 1305), the last male Frauenberg. He made an alliance with Valais gentlemen with the Bishop of Chur and the Abbot of Disentis and negotiated in place of the absent bishop. In 1298 he was in the retinue of King Adolf of Nassau and was defeated with him in the battle of Göllheim in 1297 . He was also known as a minstrel . In 1290 he moved his residence to Gutenberg Castle in Liechtenstein, where he died in 1314.

Heinrich II remained without a male successor. His daughters Katharina and Margareta married in Austria and into the Werdenberg family . While Austria fell to Gutenberg, the castle of Ruschein came to the Werdenbergs. Since the 15th century, the castle was partially demolished and the stones used for other buildings.

Documented the castle is mentioned only once: in a land register of Pfäfers in 1450 a field was called in Ruschein, the nebenzuo gen of vesti to the Almain (Allmend) pushes.

gallery

  • Western wall

  • Detail of the western wall

literature

  • Otto P. Clavedetscher, Werner Meyer : The castle book of Graubünden . Zurich / Schwäbisch Hall 1984

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frauenberg information on Pro Castellis
  2. ^ Frauenberg ruins - description of the renovation 2013/2014