Ramschwag Castle
| Ramschwag Castle | ||
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 Ramschwag castle ruins in the hamlet of Bazul |
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| Alternative name (s): | Welsch-Ramschwag | |
| Creation time : | around 1270 to 1290 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Nenzing | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 11 '3 " N , 9 ° 41' 25" E | |
| Height: | 651 m above sea level A. | |
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The castle Ramschwag even Welsch-Ramschwag called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle in Nenzing in Vorarlberg .
Surname
Since the population spoke Romansh at that time, it was called "Welsch-Ramschwag" in contrast to the Swiss ancestral castles Alt- and Neu-Ramschwag in Häggenschwil .
history
Welsch-Ramschwag Castle was built between 1270 and 1290 by the Lords of Ramschwag , a noble family from the canton of St. Gallen .
The plant should not have long been in the possession of the junkyard. There is also no written record of whether junk men ever lived here.
In the memories of the Habsburgs , the name “Ramschwag” remains associated with gratitude: it was one of them, Heinrich Walter von Ramschwag , the 1278 Rudolf von Habsburg , the ancestor of the Habsburg dynasty, in the battle on the Marchfeld against the Bohemian king Ottokar who saved life. As a thank you, the junkers received the Reichshof Kriessern, to which the municipality of Mäder also belonged, as well as other goods and rights, such as the customs in Lindau.
As a pillar of the Habsburg-Werdenberg party, the junkmen were certainly involved in the violent conflicts with the Montforters around 1300. The castle served as an outpost against Feldkirch.
A few years later the ramshackers sold the castle and in 1352 it passed into the possession of Count Rudolf III. from Montfort-Feldkirch over. In 1360 Hartmann von Prasberg was from an Allgäu noble family Burgvogt. In the same year, on the occasion of an inheritance feud, attackers came under Count Albrecht III. from Werdenberg-Heiligenberg-Bludenz to the forecourt - but could be successfully sold again.
In 1360 the castle of Welsch-Ramschwag came to the Habsburgs. In 1391 it became a member of the " Vorarlberg Confederation ".
The castle did not last long, because angry Walgau farmers destroyed on St. Michaelmas evening on 28/29. September 1405 in the Appenzell War the complex - as well as Jagdberg , Blumenegg and the "Veste zu Bürs" on the same evening . Since then, Welsch-Ramschwag has been in ruins.
In 1947, when a ski jump was built, parts of the facility were destroyed. From 1997 to 2000 the ruins were restored.
Building history
The complex was built from 1270 to 1290 on a hill made of flysch rock that slopes steeply to the north and south .
In the west, two artificial wall and ditch systems were built to prevent the approach. The stones for the construction were removed here. In the east, like today, was the staircase to the main gate.
A 1.20 meter thick curtain wall encompassed the courtyard with an area of about 42 × 38 meters.
literature
- Ruin Welsch-Ramschwag (documentation published on the occasion of the completion of the restoration by the archive of the market town of Nenzing)
- Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg castles . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7030-0953-2 , pp. 137-141.
Web links
- Entry via Wälsch-Ramschwag to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Burg Alt-Ramschwag (in Häggenschwil , St. Gallen)
- ↑ Alois Niederstetter: Peasant revolt and broken castle (PDF; 344 kB)
- ^ Castle Welsch-Ramschwag. Marktgemeinde Nenzing, accessed on October 22, 2018 .