Friberg Castle (Siat)

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Friberg Castle
Friberg Castle

Friberg Castle

Creation time : around 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Noble Free
Construction: Rubble stones
Place: Siat
Geographical location 46 ° 47 '30 "  N , 9 ° 9' 42"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '30 "  N , 9 ° 9' 42"  E ; CH1903:  731 546  /  183722
Height: 1340  m above sea level M.
Friberg Castle (Canton of Graubünden)
Friberg Castle
South side

The ruins of Friberg Castle are located in the municipality of Siat in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

location

The ruin of the hilltop castle is 1340  m above sea level. M. on a mighty boulder above Siat and can be reached from the village in a few minutes.

investment

Wall remains from the south

Only a few remains of a tower or a fortified palace made of rubble stones over a floor plan of around 11 by 18 meters have survived. The wall thickness is 1.5 meters. A transverse division of the former building observed by Poeschel can no longer be determined.

About seven meters lower lies a wide plateau in the south-east, which does not show any traces of overbuilding, but remains of a curtain wall following the edge of the terrain .

history

The lords of Friberg belonged to the nobles of the Vorderrheintal, the castle was the center of their rule. It is attested from 1255 to 1289 by Friedrich von Friberg, who fought in 1255 near Domat / Ems together with other Rhaetian lords against the bishopric of Chur . Apart from Friedrich, only Rainger is known, who appears to have died in 1343. Apparently he transferred the rule of Friberg to Austria and received it back as a fief .

After the Freiberg family died out around 1330, the ownership status is somewhat unclear. Either the castle was lent to Donat von Vaz and after his death around 1337 it came to his daughter Ursula and her husband Rudolf von Werdenberg , or Donat von Vaz made claims to the castle that his daughter could not enforce later, and in 1342 renounced it and for this the castle was given a fief by Austria.

After a feud with the Rhäzünsians , Ursula and her husband had to do without Friberg and Jörgenberg , both castles came into the possession of the Rhäzüns in 1343. After an inheritance dispute between Georg von Rhäzüns and Jos Niclaus von Zollern in 1458 - Ursula von Vaz had ceded her rights to the son from his first marriage, Niclaus von Zollern - the latter received the lords of Friberg and Jörgenberg with the villages of Waltensburg , Andiast , Siat , Rueun and Schlans .

A contract signed on June 1, 1472 between the lords of Jörgenberg and Friberg to Bishop Ortlieb von Chur (1458–1491) came about for unknown reasons, because on June 6 of the same year Jos Niclaus sold the castles to the Disentis monastery . Friberg Castle was probably abandoned in the course of the 15th century.

literature

Web links

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