Castle Hoh-Wülflingen

Castle Hoh-Wülflingen
	Fireplace at the Hoh-Wülflingen castle site
Alternative name (s):	Hoch-Wülflingen, Neuburg
Creation time :	First mentioned in 1254
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Castle stable, neck ditches, traces of the wall
Place:	Winterthur
Geographical location	47 ° 29 '54.9 " N , 8 ° 41' 3.3" E Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '54.9 " N , 8 ° 41' 3.3" E ; CH1903: six hundred ninety-three thousand eight hundred fifty-five / two hundred sixty-one thousand six hundred thirteen
Height:	595 m above sea level M.

The castle site Hoh-Wülflingen or Hoch-Wülflingen (formerly also called Neuburg ) is an abandoned hilltop castle in Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . It is classified as a cultural asset of regional importance .

location

The Hoh-Wülflingen castle is located on a steep, wooded ridge at the highest point of the hill of the same name at 595 m above sea level. M. It is three kilometers west of the old town of Winterthur and around 320 meters southwest of the Alt-Wülflingen castle ruins . The two former castles are separated by the Totentäli . In the southwest of the castle site is the village of Neuburg, named after the original name of the castle .

history

Little is known about the history of this castle. Probably the first documentary mention comes from the year 1254, when Rudolf III, Meier von Oberwinterthur , called himself "Rudolf, the Meier von Neuburg" for the first time. The Meier von Oberwinterthur were subordinate to the Bishop of Konstanz and the Count of Kyburg . When Rudolf von Habsburg inherited the Kyburger in 1264, the castle became a Habsburg fief . The next documentary mention is the rise of "Rudolf IV. Meier von Neuburg" to knighthood in 1293. His son Johannes von Neuburg entered the Kappel monastery , where he was subprior . With his death after 1340, the family died out.

After that, the castle became the property of the Mörsburger branch of the Meier von Oberwinterthur. In 1347 Johannes Meier von Mörsburg transferred the castle and the lands belonging to it to his wife Katharina. Feudal lord was Duke Albrecht of Austria . In 1369 the last Meier von Mörsburg died. This is the end of the knowledge about the future of Neuburg and future residents.

While in the 15th century the location was still used as a name for the castle itself, in the 16th century the name was transferred to the hamlet of Neuburg below the actual castle, if it still existed at all. From then on, chroniclers called the castle site "Hoch-Wülflingen" - it is not known whether the castle had fallen apart or was destroyed. In 1717 five coins from Roman times were found on the castle grounds. The hill could therefore have served as the high watch of the Romans. It is only certain again that the castle site belonged to the Swiss Alpine Club in 1880 , which in 1906 donated it to the Winterthur Tourist Office (now Winterthur Tourism).

Description and current use

Little is known about the castle itself today. In the west and east of the triangular castle square, the deep neck trenches and traces of the wall can still be seen. Part of the former castle plateau has collapsed (former Schuppentännli cave). An archaeological investigation - apart from a survey in April 2000 by the Canton Archeology of Zurich - has not yet been carried out. Today there is a fireplace at the castle site.

literature

Federal Office of Topography : Castle Map of Switzerland - East. Federal Office for Topography, Wabern 2007, ISBN 978-3-302-09802-9 , p. 108.
Emanuel Dejung, Richard Zürcher, Hans Hofmann: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich, Volume VI: The City of Winterthur and the City of Zurich (Art History Summary) (= The Art Monuments of Switzerland . Volume 27). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 1952, p. 354.
Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 285 ). Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1953, p. 369-372 .
Peter Ziegler: Wülflingen. From the beginning to the present (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library. Volume 305). Winterthur 1975, pp. 17-19.

Web links

Commons : Hoh-Wülflingen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Burgstelle Hoch-Wülflingen (Neuburg) on Burgenwelt.org
Hoh-Wülflingen in the Winterthur glossary.

Individual evidence

↑ B objects ZH 2018 . Canton of Zurich KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (the changes for 2018 are marked in blue). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 473 kB, 17 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue).
↑ ^a ^b Federal Office of Topography: Castle Map of Switzerland - East. Federal Office for Topography, Wabern 2007, ISBN 978-3-302-09802-9 , p. 108.
^ Martin Leonhard: Neuburg, from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
^ Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 285 ). Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1953, p. 370-371 .
↑ ^a ^b Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 285 ). Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1953, p. 371 .
^ Emanuel Dejung, Richard Zürcher, Hans Hofmann: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Zürich. Volume VI: The City of Winterthur and the City of Zurich (Summary of Art History) (= The Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 27). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1952, p. 354.
↑ Kantonsarchäologie Zürich (Ed.): Archäologie im Kanton Zürich, 1999–2000 (= reports of the canton archeology. Volume 16). Fotorotar, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-905681-00-5 , pp. 42–43.

[1] B objects ZH 2018 . Canton of Zurich KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (the changes for 2018 are marked in blue). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 473 kB, 17 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue).

[Bundesamt-2] Federal Office of Topography: Castle Map of Switzerland - East. Federal Office for Topography, Wabern 2007, ISBN 978-3-302-09802-9 , p. 108.

[3] Martin Leonhard: Neuburg, from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[4] Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 285 ). Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1953, p. 370-371 .

[Stauber371-5] Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 285 ). Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1953, p. 371 .

[6] Emanuel Dejung, Richard Zürcher, Hans Hofmann: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Zürich. Volume VI: The City of Winterthur and the City of Zurich (Summary of Art History) (= The Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 27). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1952, p. 354.

[7] Kantonsarchäologie Zürich (Ed.): Archäologie im Kanton Zürich, 1999–2000 (= reports of the canton archeology. Volume 16). Fotorotar, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-905681-00-5 , pp. 42–43.