Heinzenberg Castle

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Heinzenberg Castle
Heinzenberg ruins

Heinzenberg ruins

Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Construction: Rubble stones
Place: Prec
Geographical location 46 ° 44 '23 "  N , 9 ° 24' 31"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '23 "  N , 9 ° 24' 31"  E ; CH1903:  750,541  /  178393
Height: 1130  m above sea level M.
Heinzenberg Castle (Canton of Graubünden)
Heinzenberg Castle

The castle Heinzenberg is the ruins of a hilltop castle at 1,130  m above sea level. M. on a rocky hill below the village of Präz in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

investment

On the mountain side, the hill is protected by a natural incision, on the southeast side a ditch has been artificially dug . Remnants of the wall have survived only in the western part of the impressive castle complex. From a pentagonal tower a wall tooth still stands up to the third floor. Inside, remains of smooth plaster are visible on the second floor, bar holes show the position of the floors. The red chalk inscriptions that Clavadetscher / Meyer could still see are no longer recognizable today. In 1930 Erwin Poeschel saw a door to a balcony on the third floor of the west wall, a door to an arbor on the fifth floor and a window niche in the south wall of the fifth floor. The sixth floor was closed off with battlements , Poeschel suspected a tent roof above it . In 1956 the tower collapsed on what is now what is left; a large fallen section of the wall lies at the foot of the hill.

A curtain wall was attached to the tower in the west up to the fifth floor ; Wall joints indicate that it was built in several stages. Of the buildings leaning against the Bering on the inside, only the remains of the wall remain, the lower parts are heavily overgrown.

To the west, walls of an outbuilding have been preserved. The bar holes visible on the north side indicate other buildings, but the architectural context is no longer recognizable. To the west, on a lower terrace, lay a wide outer bailey . The remnants of bering mentioned by Poeschel and Clavadetscher / Meyer are barely recognizable.

history

Written documents about the construction of the castle are missing. It is conceivable that the name Heinzenberg was transferred to the castle as a field name and later to the entire valley side . 1384 is mentioned for the first time on the mountain ze Haintzemberg .

The Heinzenberg belonged to the domain of the barons of Vaz , who had jurisdiction here; probably the castle was built by them around the year 1200. Via Ursula von Vaz, the castle came to the von Werdenberg-Sargans family as an inheritance in 1337 . In 1383 Johann von Werdenberg sold his rights to Heinzenberg to his brother-in-law Ulrich Brun von Rhäzüns . Even if the castle is not mentioned by name, it was in the hands of the Rhäzünser in 1394, but according to an interest sledge, interest that came into the vesti sint towards Haintzenberg had to be paid .

In an inheritance dispute, Ursula von Hohenheim geb. Rhäzüns 1450 Anleite (the right) to rule and property of the outlawed Georg von Rhäzüns. In the shame feud in 1451 the castle was captured, but unlike many others, it was not destroyed. Via Anna von Rhäzüns, the castle came to her husband Georg von Werdenberg-Sargans in 1461, who from then on called himself Herr zu Ortenstein and Heinzenberg. In 1475 he sold his goods on Heinzenberg to Bishop Ortlieb, but kept the slos and burgstal on Haintzenberg . In 1482 Heinrich Grass was the Werdenberg bailiff at the Heintzenberg castle . In 1523 the castle came to Ludwig Tschudi von Glarus. It was abandoned in the course of the 16th century.

  • gallery

  • Remnants of the plaster

  • inner wall corner

  • View from the east

  • Facing south

  • Inside of the residential wing, view to NE

Web links

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

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