Gesslerburg
| Gesslerburg | ||
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 The Gesslerburg with Mount Pilatus in the background |
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| Alternative name (s): | Küssnacht Castle | |
| Creation time : | presumably 9th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Küssnacht | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 4 '55.3 " N , 8 ° 26' 55.2" E | |
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Gesslerburg (actually Burg zu Küssnacht ) is the name of a medieval castle in Küssnacht . Like the Hohle Gasse in the same place, it is connected to the legend of Wilhelm Tell . According to the historian Aegidius Tschudi , it is said to have been the seat of compatriot Hermann Gessler . The ruins of the Gesslerburg have been owned by the Swiss Confederation since 1908 .
location
The ruins of the hilltop castle are located on a hilltop in the east of the village, above the village stream that flows from the Seebodenalp into the lake . A path leads up to the Gesslerburg from the Bone Stomp, a shed with a waterwheel by the stream , in which fertilizer was once made.
history
Despite archaeological investigations, very little is known about the origin and history of the castle complex. From the second half of the 9th century there is evidence of a nobleman named Recho who donated his possessions in Küssnacht to the Benedictine monastery in Hof Luzern, along with other goods. Presumably an early medieval castle was also part of it. The first documentary mention comes from 1263: "in castro nostro Chüssenach".
Küssnacht was bought from the monastery in 1291 by Rudolf I von Habsburg . The lords of the castle, who were appointed by the House of Habsburg as bailiffs , appeared as "Noble von Küssnach". Knight Eppo II (1282-1315) demanded taxes, levies and compulsory services as Vogt. In 1302 there was a dispute with the people of the Vogtei Küssnacht, in which the Vogt is said to have almost perished.
In the chronicle of the city of Zurich (1415), a feud between Zurich and the Confederates on the one hand and Duke Albrecht II of Austria on the other is mentioned for the year 1352 .
literature
- Ivo Zemp, Kaspar Michel, Markus Bamert, Valentin Kessler: Gesslerburg and Hohle Gasse with Tell Chapel. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 790, Series 79). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-85782-790-7 .
- Eugen Schneiter: The "Gesslerburg" above Küssnacht. In: News of the Swiss Association for the Preservation of Castles and Ruins (Burgenverein) , Issue 3, 22 (1949), pp. 122f. ( PDF )
