Neu-Süns Castle

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Neu-Süns Castle
Canova above piping

Canova above piping

Alternative name (s): Canova
Creation time : around 1250 to 1300
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Piping
Geographical location 46 ° 44 '39 "  N , 9 ° 26' 52"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '39 "  N , 9 ° 26' 52"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred fifty-three thousand five hundred and twenty  /  one hundred seventy-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-two
Height: 815  m above sea level M.
Neu-Süns Castle (Canton of Graubünden)
Neu-Süns Castle

The Castle Neu-five , including Canova called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle between the villages Almens and Paspels in the Domleschg in the Swiss canton of Grisons .

location

The old Canova castle was 815  m above sea level. M. on a low and wooded hill above a property of the same name in today's municipality of Paspels. Their remains are now on private land, but a short tour is still possible. The ruin can be reached on foot either from Paspels or Almens in around a quarter of an hour (no car driving).

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plan

The castle area was on a plateau, surrounded by a curtain wall. A neck ditch served as an obstacle. The exact location of the access gate is not known, it may have been on the south side, where a breach opens today. In the western corner of the curtain wall , heavily weathered windows indicate a building. In the northern section there are the remains of a cistern, which is now filled with rubble and carved into the rock . Presumably it was fed by eaves water.

At the top of the plateau are the ruins of the round residential tower ( keep ), of which the northern half-shell has been preserved up to the original height of five floors. It is not known why the locally unusual round shape was chosen. The floors were separated from each other by wooden intermediate floors, the living rooms were on the third and fourth floors. Two toilet bay windows, windows with seating niches and smoke outlets from an open fire and a stove have been preserved. The high entrance was on the second floor. The wall thickness is approximately 1.5 meters throughout.

The tower was closed with a slightly protruding battlement with a narrow battlement . A gently sloping gable roof was hung into the tower so that it was protected from enemy arrows. Little traces of the kennel that once surrounded the tower at a distance of three meters are left.

history

The round floor plan and other structural details suggest that it was built in the middle of the 13th century. In a document from 1392 Canova Neu-Süns is mentioned (... uff der Nüwen Sünns ...), which points to a more recent establishment of the Vaz house in Domleschg .

At that time ministerials from the Barons of Vaz were probably sitting at the castle . In 1337 there was a Simon von Bärenburg Vazischer ministrate. It is not clear whether the "de Canofa" gentlemen, first mentioned in 1271, could already be associated with the complex at the time; Their property was more in Oberhalbstein and Chur. In 1295 the "Canofa" appear as servants of the von Vaz.

When Donat von Vaz, the last of the family, died, the castle fell to the Counts of Werdenberg after 1338 . Anna von Rhäzüns , who was married to Johann von Werdenberg-Sargans, lived on Canova towards the end of the 14th century . According to an arbitration ruling by Ulrich Brun von Rhäzüns between his sister Anna and her husband Johann Werdenberg-Sargans, Anna was supposed to be at home on the Nuwen Sunss and be there. You should improve your buwen a parlor, ain chamber, ain kuchi and the stegan . Their jewelry chest, which the Scheidner captured, is now in the Rhaetian Museum in Chur.

In 1452 it was destroyed in the shame feud . Because the Werdenberg-Sarganser had no male descendants, the remains of Neusins ​​Castle probably went to their Canofa ministrals. In 1574 their descendants Jan and Wilhelm de Canaua and a Felix Fyn von Almens Neu Sins sell to Herttly von Salis zu Rietberg and his son Andreas zu Neuwensins, who in 1636 sold Canova (Neu Sins) to Rudolf von Travers and his wife Lucretia Catarina, who Daughter of Pompejus Planta from Rietberg Castle .

  • gallery

  • Tower facing west

  • Chimney of the hearth

  • Canova on a drawing by F. Küpfer, around 1880

literature

  • Fritz Hauswirth: Castles and palaces in Switzerland . Volume 8. Neptun Verlag. Kreuzlingen, 1972
  • Otto P. Clavedetscher, Werner Meyer : The castle book of Graubünden . Zurich / Schwäbisch Hall, 1984
  • Anton von Castelmur: "The castles and palaces of the Canton of Graubünden", Volume I, Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel 1940
  • Lukas Högl: Four main functions of the residential tower , in Bündner Monatsblatt 2/2015, pp. 179–184

Web links

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