Alt-Tierstein castle ruins
| Alt-Tierstein castle ruins | |
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 Alt-Thierstein castle ruins (aerial view) |
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| Creation time : | around 1100 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | ruin |
| Place: | Gipf-Oberfrick |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 29 '48.9 " N , 7 ° 58' 21" E |
The Alt-Tierstein castle ruins are the ruins of a low -lying castle complex in the municipality of Gipf-Oberfrick in Aargau .
Older finds show that the place dates back to around 1000 BC. Was visited.
The castle was the seat of the Thierstein family . It has been rebuilt several times and was inhabited from the 11th to the 15th century. The castle was then abandoned because the Thiersteiners had relocated their headquarters to Neu-Thierstein Castle near Büsserach in the 12th century . There is no evidence that Thierstein Castle was destroyed by the Basel earthquake in 1356.
Web links
- Maria-Letizia Boscardin: Alt-Thierstein. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Castle world: Alt-Thierstein Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board of the Cantonal Archeology Aargau
- ↑ Christoph Reding: The castles to the left of the High Rhine (Fricktal and the surrounding area - Canton Aargau, Switzerland) in the late Middle Ages and modern times , in: Burgen und Schlösser , magazine for castle research and monument preservation, ed. from the European Castle Institute of the German Castle Association , 4/2015, pp. 277–288, there p. 285