Langenberg Castle

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Langenberg Castle
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Hill castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Followers of the Counts of Kyburg
Place: Winterthur
Geographical location 47 ° 28 '20.8 "  N , 8 ° 42' 55.2"  O Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '20.8 "  N , 8 ° 42' 55.2"  E ; CH1903:  696 242  /  258747
Height: 539  m above sea level M.
Langenberg Castle (Canton of Zurich)
Langenberg Castle

The castle Langenberg is an Outbound castle in Winterthur , which was probably built in the 12th century and ministerials of the Counts of Kyburg belonged.

history

Emil Stauber suspects that the castle was built by Hartmann IV von Kyburg , who then handed over the Castrum Langenburg to Margareta von Savoyen in 1241 as a marriage estate.

Location question

In Winterthur there used to be two places known as Langenberg that are spatially close to one another. On the one hand these are the now suspected as a location Langenberg in the city forest Esch Berg ( six hundred ninety-six thousand two hundred and forty-two  /  258747 ), and secondly, to the hill Lampergrain ( 695 553  /  258388 ), formerly bore the name of Langenburg, near the mouth of Kempt in the Töss was and today is overbuilt or tunnelled by the Winterthur-Zurich railway line and the A1 motorway .

While the castle was entered on the historical map (see below) on the Eschenberg, the historian Emil Stauber suspected in his local history of the formerly independent municipality of Töss , published in 1926 , that the castle was more likely to be located on the Lampengrain and referred to, among other things the chronicler Johannes Stumpf , who reported in the 16th century that the castle was “due to the influence of the Kempt in the Töss”, and the chronicler Dürsteler, who provided a similar description of the location. He also argued with the Langenberg farm that existed for several centuries and belonged to the Töss monastery and was located near Lampengrain. He also cited traffic-related reasons that made a location on the Lampengrain appear more sensible.

This assumption was then followed up in the context of the construction of the A1 motorway : in 1963, investigations were carried out at Lampengrain using the phosphate method and in September 1965 the Archaeological Central Office for National Road Construction of the Swiss Society for Prehistory and Protohistory carried out new explorations, but without any small finds let alone find the remains of the wall. In its activity report for the years 1968/69, the Monument Preservation of the Canton of Zurich concluded that the location originally drawn on the map by Jos Murer was probably the correct location. However, this has not yet been archaeologically examined.

The ruins of Langenberg Castle on historical maps

literature

  • Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 285 ). Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1953, p. 139-142 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Stauber: History of the community of Töss (=  New Year's Gazette of the City of Winterthur . No. 240 ). Geschwister Ziegler printing house, Winterthur 1926.
  2. ^ Zürcher Denkmalpflege (Ed.): 6th report 1968/69 . Zurich 1973, Langenberg. Castle ruins, S. 162–163 ( are.zh.ch [PDF; 7.7 MB ; accessed on October 2, 2018]).