Rotzberg castle ruins
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 Rotzberg castle ruins |
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| Alternative name (s): | Rotzburg castle ruins | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Rotzberg near Ennetmoos | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 57 '51.1 " N , 8 ° 20' 11.3" E | |
| Height: | 672 m above sea level M. | |
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The Rotzberg castle ruins , also known as Rotzburg castle ruins , are the ruins of a spur castle on the Rotzberg in the municipality of Ennetmoos in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden . It lies at an altitude of 672 m above sea level. M. on the Rotzberg, a ridge west of Stans and east of the Alpnachersee , a side bay of the Vierwaldstättersee .
description
The castle ruins are listed under KGS no. 4178 is registered as a B object in the list of cultural assets of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and is therefore a listed building.
history
The polygonal curtain wall , which is still visible today, was probably built in the 12th century. There are reports from chroniclers of this time, according to which barons from Rotenburg (from Rothenburg in Lucerne ) could be regarded as builders, as well as from Habsburgs who used it as a fortress. In later years the Nidwalden kept a high watch on the Rotzberg during wartime . In the 17th and 18th centuries, hermits lived on the site in wooden huts. In 1864 a pension was built.
In the early years of Swiss tourism, there were plans in 1909 to build a hotel on the Rotzberg and to open it up with a funicular from the Rotzwinkel . The project was prevented and in 1910 the Swiss Confederation bought the site for 18,000 francs and placed the castle under protection after conservation work. In 1988 exploratory excavations took place. The castle ruins were last extensively renovated by the federal government in the 2010s. In 2015 it became known that the federal government wanted to sell the castle ruins to the canton of Nidwalden.
literature
- Werner Meyer : Rotzberg NW: Results of the 1988 survey . In: News from the Swiss Castle Association. 61st century / no. 6. Zurich 1988. doi : 10.5169 / seals-163625
- Robert Durrer : The art monuments of the canton Unterwalden. Reprint, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1971, pp. 449-460.
- Werner Meyer: Rotzberg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Burgenwelt: Rotzberg Castle
- Nidwald: Rotzberg Castle , on swisscastles.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ B objects NW 2018 . Canton of Nidwalden KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (no changes compared to previous year). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on February 18, 2015 (PDF; 220 kB, 2 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).
- ↑ The federal government wants to sell the Rotzburg . In: Neue Nidwaldner Zeitung , April 24, 2015