Crap Sogn Parcazi

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Crap Sogn Parcazi
Looking west

Looking west

Alternative name (s): Hohentrins Castle
Creation time : around 750 (?)
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Construction: Rubble stones
Place: Trin
Geographical location 46 ° 49 '45.6 "  N , 9 ° 21' 2.4"  O Coordinates: 46 ° 49 '45.6 "  N , 9 ° 21' 2.4"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and forty-five thousand eight hundred seventy-two  /  188243
Height: 1005  m above sea level M.
Crap Sogn Parcazi (Canton of Graubünden)
Crap Sogn Parcazi

The ruins of the early medieval fortified church Crap Sogn Parcazi ( Rhaeto-Romanic for "Stone of Saint Pankratius ") lie west of the municipality of Trin in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . Sogn Parcazi is in all probability the actual Hohentrins castle , which was previously suspected in Canaschal's west tower.

location

The remains of the former hilltop castle are at 1050  m above sea level. M. on a vertically rising boulder at the Porclas bottleneck west of the village above the old road between Trin and Flims . The facility can be reached via a steep path from the street (Postbus stop) in a quarter of an hour. The last ascent is carved into the rock and secured with ropes.

history

Who founded the facility at Crap Sogn Parcazi is nowhere recorded in writing. It is conceivable that it was built around 750 by Pippin , the father of Charlemagne , to whom the founding of the nearby Canaschal Castle is ascribed. This was probably a preliminary work of Crap Sogn Parcazi. The oldest residential buildings are dated to the 11th, the youngest to the 15th century.

Since the 9th century, the reign of Hohentrin belonged to the Reichenau monastery and later to various owners, such as the lords of Frauenberg and the lords of Sagogn-Wildenberg. The latter come into question as founders of the facility on Crap Sogn Parcazi. From 1324 the counts of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg are proven as owners. When these died out in 1428, Hohentrins went to the Lords of Hewen, who installed Otto Capol as bailiff in Hohentrins . He probably took up residence on Crap Sogn Parcazi. During his term of office, the castle or his residence burned on the night of 2/3 July 1470 settled. Capol then moved his seat to Reichenau Castle, whereupon the castle fell into disrepair.

When exactly Sogn Parcazi was finally left is unknown. Found Gothic stove tiles with figurative and ornamental decorations show that the complex was still inhabited in the 15th century. It was buried under rubble for a long time and was only excavated by the Swiss Castle Association in 1931 and 1936/37. Other fortified churches in Graubünden are, among others, the Jörgenberg Castle and the Hohenrätien Castle . The facility and the access were last extensively renovated between 2009 and 2011 by the Fundaziun Crap Sogn Barcazi Foundation.

During the Second World War, the main works of the Trin locking point was built underground in the rock of the Crap Sogn Parcazi as the last barrier before the Reduit with the task of preventing the enemy from entering the Reduit ( Gotthard fortress ).

investment

The simple church consisted of a nave with an apse attached to the east . Fragments of it prove that it was painted with frescoes made using the secco technique. A long, two-meter-wide, once subdivided room, which is interpreted as a baptistery from early Christian times, was connected to the north nave wall . It is considered one of the oldest in Switzerland and is believed to be older than the ruins of the rest of the church. The foundation walls of the early Romanesque church and the baptistery and the altar block are still preserved today. Remains of the keep were not found, however, is joined near a tower-like rectangular building, which probably contained the rectory.

The whole plateau was surrounded by a ring wall made of quarry stones , which, like the parish apartment, was built in the 11th century. The entrance was on the north side. Further buildings were built shortly afterwards, while the elongated building on the east side with an unknown purpose was not built until the early 15th century. The still recognizable cistern , in which filtered eaves water was collected, was in the northern part of the castle courtyard.

  • Crap Sogn Parcazi hill, east facing

  • Church floor plans

  • Apse seen from below

  • cistern

  • Drawing of the ruins

  • Plant plan

Web links

Commons : Crap Sogn Parcazi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Fritz Hauswirth: Castles and palaces in Switzerland . Volume 8. Neptun Verlag, Kreuzlingen 1972.
  • Otto P. Clavadetscher, Werner Meyer : The castle book of Graubünden . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01319-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page "The Crap Sogn Barcazi Castle", in: Trin Tourist Office: www.trin-verkehrsverein.ch