Schiedberg Castle

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Schiedberg Castle
Schiedberg Castle - hill of ruins

Schiedberg Castle - hill of ruins

Alternative name (s): castrum Sagogn
Creation time : around 1000
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Edelfrei
Place: Sagogn -Vitg Dado
Geographical location 46 ° 47 '30 "  N , 9 ° 16' 0"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '30 "  N , 9 ° 16' 0"  E ; CH1903:  739 561  /  183903
Height: 822  m above sea level M.
Schiedberg Castle (Canton of Graubünden)
Schiedberg Castle

The Schiedberg Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle southeast of the village part Vitg Dado the community Sagogn in the Swiss canton of Grisons .

location

The ruin is 822  m above sea level. M. on the Schiedberg, a gravel hill. The name Schiedberg did not appear until 1570. The hill was always called casti locally , and castrum in Roman and early medieval times .

investment

The center of the elongated castle complex was a tower, along the southern perimeter wall there were various residential buildings.

history

An emergency excavation in 1964 and further investigations in 1968 show that the place was already populated in prehistoric and Roman times as well as in the early Middle Ages . The excavation findings (iron tools, oven ceramics, non-ferrous metal, glass, bones) suggest that the Schiedberg is identical to the Sagogn castrum mentioned in Bishop Tello's will , where the family owned a stately stone house. West of Schiedberg, in Sagogn, was the center of rule of the Victorids , to which Tello belonged , in the 8th century . In his will, Tello bequeathed a manor house with accessories, farms, fields, meadows, vineyards and the Alps to the Disentis Monastery in 765. The goods were in the inner village, in the courtyards around Sagogn, on Bregl da Heida , where there was a manor house and a Carolingian hall church consecrated to St. Columban .

The noble castle was built around 1000; The complex was last expanded around 1250. The castle was the seat of the noble lords of Sagogn ; Chuno de Sagannio is mentioned in 1137 , one of the first noble Churrätiens .

After the Sagogn-Wildenberg family died out , the castle was inherited from the Counts of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg in 1320 .

Castle and lordship probably went under in the war between the barons of Belmont and those of Werdenberg ( Belmonter feud ) around 1352 . Other landowners were the monasteries of Disentis, St. Luzius and Churwalden , the diocese of Chur , the lords of Belmont and Montalt, and free farmers. After a fire in the second half of the 14th century, the castle was no longer rebuilt and began to crumble. Today the ruin is owned by the municipality of Sagogn.

  • gallery

  • Aerial view, to the west

  • North

  • eastward

  • to the northwest

  • Plant plan

literature

  • Fritz Hauswirth: Castles and palaces in Switzerland . Volume 8. Neptun Verlag. Kreuzlingen, 1972
  • Werner Meyer : Castles of Switzerland . Volume 3. Silva Verlag. Zurich, 1983
  • Anton von Castelmur: The castles and palaces of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume II, Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel 1940
  • Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden : Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008
  • Thomas Bitterli: Swiss Castle Guide , Friedrich Reinhard Verlag Basel / Berlin, 1995
  • Martin Bundi among others: Contributions to the historical conference in Sagogn 25./26. April 2008: Medieval rule and settlement in Churrätien using the example of the barons of Sagogn / Schiedberg ; Supplement No. 12 to the Bündner monthly newspaper ; Institute for Cultural Research Graubünden; Chur 2010
  • Martin Bundi, Urs Clavadetscher, Werner Meyer, Wolfram Kuoni: Schiedberg, Bregl da Heida and Aspermont Castle in Sagogn. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 829, Series 83). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-85782-829-4 .

Web links

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