Isenringen Castle

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Isenringen Castle
Isenringen Castle (drawing by JF Wagner)

Isenringen Castle (drawing by JF Wagner)

Alternative name (s): Isenring Castle
Creation time : around 1250
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Castle site
Place: Beckenried , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Geographical location 46 ° 58 '8.6 "  N , 8 ° 28' 16.5"  O Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '8.6 "  N , 8 ° 28' 16.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred and eighty-one  /  202514
Height: 435  m above sea level M.
Isenringen Castle (Canton Nidwalden)
Isenringen Castle

The Isenringen castle in Beckenried in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden is the site of a late medieval castle .

location

The castle is located on the southern edge of Lake Lucerne in Beckenried, today on the plain northwest of the Beckenried-Emmetten mountain railways at around 435  m above sea level. M. There are only remnants of walls also under the house Isenringen mentioned Nidwaldner town house preserved.

history

The castle was built in the middle of the 13th century by the lords of Isenringen . In 1262 a Heinrich von Isenringen was mentioned in a document. The remains were demolished around 1860.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Isenringen . In: Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2, 1904, p. 637. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  2. ^ House Isenringen . Website of the municipality of Beckenried , accessed on August 13, 2016.
  3. a b Entry on the Isenringen residential tower in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved October 13, 2016.