Friberg Castle (Trun)

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Friberg Castle
Location Fribergs ob Trun. The cistern is visible through the trees.

Location Fribergs ob Trun.
The cistern is visible through the trees.

Alternative name (s): Color range
Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Ruin, rubble
Construction: Rubble stones
Place: Trun
Geographical location 46 ° 44 '53.5 "  N , 9 ° 0' 9"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '53.5 "  N , 9 ° 0' 9"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred ninety-three  /  178635
Height: 980  m above sea level M.
Friberg Castle (Canton of Graubünden)
Friberg Castle

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

location

The few ruins of the former hilltop castle are located on a moraine hill directly on the road from Trun to Schlans on the west side of the ravine.

investment

Friberg's 1894 plan

Apart from the remains of a considerable tank cistern on the northern edge of the site, practically nothing has survived from the castle . The foundations of a strong tower at the highest point with a side length of 10 by 11 meters can only be guessed at. A mighty wall tooth on the north wall, which rose to a height of five storeys, collapsed on November 16, 1911; the stump that Clavadetscher mentioned is no longer recognizable. Isolated wall remains in the saddle of the foreland were removed when the road was built.

history

Whether the Friberg Castle in Trun is related to the Friberg Castle of Siat is conceivable, but not proven; There are no written documents about the origins and history of the castle. It is conceivable that Friberg was built by Distentiser bailiffs . In 1249 the administrator Antonius der Carnisio is said to have handed over or sold the monastic castle to his brother Lanfrancus.

There were disputes about the castle between the monastery and Vogt Hugo von Werdenberg , who had to return the castle to the monastery in 1327. In a judgment in 1469, the gutt called Fryberg appears in Trunser kilchspell (= parish), which concerned a water pipe. It is unclear whether it was about a courtyard or the castle. It has not been established when the castle was abandoned.

  • gallery

  • Tank cistern

  • Cistern wall

  • Location of the tower

  • Drawing of the wall tooth, as it was in 1894

  • Wall tooth shortly before its collapse in 1911

literature

  • Otto P. Clavadetscher, Werner Meyer : The castle book of Graubünden . Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01319-4
  • Castle map of Switzerland, Federal Office of Topography, 2007 edition
  • Anton von Castelmur: The castles and palaces of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume II, Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel 1940

Web links

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