Lagenberg Castle

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Lagenberg
Lagenberg ruins, north side

Lagenberg ruins, north side

Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Construction: Rubble stones
Place: Laax
Geographical location 46 ° 48 '59 "  N , 9 ° 15' 51.4"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '59 "  N , 9 ° 15' 51.4"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred thirty-nine thousand three hundred fifteen  /  186646
Height: 1127  m above sea level M.
Lagenberg Castle (Canton of Graubünden)
Lagenberg Castle

The ruins of the former Lagenberg Castle lie on a hill north of the village of Laax in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

location

The ruin is 1127  m above sea level. M. between the village parts of Laax-Cons and Murschetg on a wooded hill. It can be easily reached from Cons in just under a quarter of an hour and is easy to find above the water reservoir.

Surname

With the chroniclers Ulrich Campell and Fortunat Sprecher , the castle name appears as Langenberg , which seems quite plausible in view of the elongated hill on which the castle stood. The name Lagenberg appears in a Habsburg land register from the beginning of the 14th century . One explanation for this would be that German owners referred to the nearby settlement of Laax (from lacus , the lake) and referred to their fortress as Laaxer Burg. The conversion from -er to -er could have been based on numerous other castle names.

investment

The sparse remains of the wall no longer reveal the architectural connections, but one can infer an extensive complex. The main castle in the north of the area consisted of a tower in the north, another building in the south and probably a courtyard in between. Wall-like walls made of smaller rubble stones and a lot of filling material have been preserved. To the south of the main castle was a spacious outer castle , separated by a ditch .

history

Written documents about the construction of the castle are missing. The construction of the remains of the wall suggests that it was built in the second half of the 13th century.

Lagenberg Castle formed the center of the Laax rule, which was formed by the free people of the Bündner Oberland . The rule was established around 1280 and awarded to the House of Austria. The castle was first mentioned in 1303 in a Habsburg land register .

The grounds included farmsteads below the grounds, including the square in the south of the hill, which is still called Il marcau today and where a fair ( Il marcau ) used to be held on Gallus Day .

In 1323 the Lagenberg was conquered and destroyed by Donat von Vaz in a feud : because the vest was broken, because it was owned by von Vatz (arbitration ruling of 1348). After Donat's death in 1337, the Lagenberg came into the possession of her husband Rudolf von Werdenberg-Sargans through his sister Ursula von Vaz , but was no longer rebuilt.

  • gallery

  • View from the south

  • South side

  • inner space

  • southern foreland

Web links

Commons : Burg Lagenberg  - 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
  • Anton von Castelmur: The castles and palaces of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume II, Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel 1940

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Boxler, The naming of castles in northeastern Switzerland and in Graubünden ; P. 113