Sonnenberg castle ruins
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| Alternative name (s): | Nüziders Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Nüziders | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 10 '36 " N , 9 ° 47' 57" E | |
| Height: | 614 m above sea level A. | |
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The Sonnenberg castle ruins , also known as Nüziders Castle , are the ruins of a medieval hilltop castle in the Bludenz district in Austria and are located on a steep rock head above the municipality of Nüziders . It was the seat of the lordship and county of Sonnenberg .
history
This former castle above Nüziders, built before the Montfort division of property in 1258, passed to the Counts of Werdenberg-Sargans .
During a feud between the Bishop of Chur, Count Hartmann von Werdenberg-Sargans and the Duke Friedrich IV of Austria , the castle and town of Nüziders were burned down.
The castle complex was rebuilt by Bishop in 1409/10 and the name was then changed from "Burg Vorteiliders" to "Sonnenberg".
In 1455, the Sargans castle and rule ceded for 15,000 guilders to Eberhard I from the Waldburg family , who already held the rule of Bludenz with the Montafon valley as pledge. When Eberhard's son, Andreas von Sonnenberg , seriously injured a citizen of Bludenz and a subject of Duke Sigmund von Tirol in 1472 , a conflict arose which the Duke took advantage of and Feldkirch mercenaries under Burkhard von Knöringen captured and destroyed Sonnenberg Castle after a three-day siege in 1473 let. Andreas escaped in time. The dispute was settled in 1474 and the county was sold to the duke for 35,000 guilders. This united it with Bludenz, which had already become Austrian in 1418, and had it co-administered by the Bludenz bailiffs.
The Habsburgs now had a continuous territory from the Arlberg to the Rhine.
Werdenberg-Sargans
Counts of Sonnenberg
Habsburg
today's coat of arms of the municipality of Nüziders
investment
The floor plan is based on an irregular polygonal surface, at the highest point of which you can still see the remnants of the north wall of the former donjon-like residential tower above a vertically sloping rock face .
The castle was not rebuilt after it was destroyed in 1473 and remained in ruins. The castle ruins were restored in 1934/35.
literature
- Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg castles . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7030-0953-2 , pp. 142–146.
- DEHIO-Handbuch Vorarlberg, Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 (1983).
Web links
- Entry over Sonnenberg castle ruins on Burgen-Austria
- Manfred Tschaikner: The county in Walgau, Blumenegg, Guggais and Sonnenberg (PDF; 59 kB)
- Sonnenberg ruins (with pictures)