Windegg (Forest ZH)
| Windegg | ||
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 Windegg manor |
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| Creation time : | 13th century (castle); 1709 (manor house) | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, built over | |
| Place: | Forest ZH | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 16 '35 " N , 8 ° 55' 8" E | |
| Height: | 640 m above sea level M. | |
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Windegg is historically the name of an abandoned castle in the upper Jonatal , near Wald in the Zurich Oberland . The castle ruins were built over by a residential house as early as the 17th century, which was replaced by an expansive timber frame house in 1709 . Today it is known as the Windegg manor and is one of the registered cultural assets in the canton of Zurich (KGS no .: 7728).
Windegg Castle
Little is known about Windegg Castle, as it has become inaccessible for excavations due to its overbuilding. It probably came from the first half of the 13th century, a time when the Wald parish church, about 200 m away, already existed and had become the core of a small settlement. The castle is drawn in the canton map by Jos Murer (1566), and again in the canton map by Hans Conrad Gyger (1667). A coat of arms for Windegg is drawn on both maps (while the Kirchdorf Wald does not have a coat of arms on either map), for Murer a sloping Gleven stick or lily stick ( Gilgen ) with double ends, for Gyger a slanted golden double lily in a blue field; Bluntschli (1742), however, describes a black field: in a black field there is a shrill yellow Gilgen .
A von Windegg family is first mentioned in 1229, with Ulrich and Diethelm von Windegg, who appear as witnesses at a donation by the Rüti monastery . In 1290 a knight Diethelm von Windegg appears again. The sons of this Diethelm, Diethelm Kirchherr in Zollikon and Beringer, signed a contract with the Johanniterkommende Bubikon in 1314 . Around 1350, a Windegger is said to have been executed by the wheel in connection with the night of murder in Zurich . After 1350 the Windeggers are said to have adopted the name of Tobel . Erhard Dürsteler (around 1740) mentions a former Windegg castle located between Wald and Dienberg in the Grüningen estate ; the castle was broken and the family died .
Windegg manor
The timber frame house (today's address: Windeggstrasse 2) was built in 1709 by Hans Krauer and his wife Maria Brändli. Krauer was a tanner. The representative building is an early testimony to the newly achieved wealth of some craftsmen in the Zurich Oberland in the pre-industrial era . When it was built, the half-timbered house was still on a hill on the eastern edge of the village of Wald.
The nearby field name Stampf testifies that the tanner mill was also located here . Krauer took over a house on the castle hill from his father (mentioned in 1697). A loan has been taken out for the new building from 1709. The manor is mentioned by Werdmüller (1790): By the abandoned castle there is only one house in the Wald parish .
The Krauer family lost their influential position in Wald in the early 20th century. The manor came into the possession of the political community in 1952. Initially, the site around the castle hill was planned to be built over, but after a consultation with the preservation authorities in 1967, this was not done. In 1977, the municipality transferred the property to the Reformed Parish of Wald with the requirement to renovate the building. The former barn of the manor was converted into a community center.
Since 1905 the facade of the house was covered with shingles. The old state as a frame structure was restored in the renovation in 1978. The renovated building contains four apartments, next to it the "Windegg-Stube", which was left in its original state, and the "Otto Schaufelberger Stube", which is dedicated to the estate of the Zurich Oberland poet Otto Schaufelberger .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hans-Heinrich Bluntschli, Memorabilia Tigurina or Merckworthiness of the City and Landscapes of Zurich (3rd edition 1742), p. 537 .
- ↑ Zingg (2009), p. 2.
- ↑ «The majestic timber frame building was built in 1709 by the tanner Hans Krauer and his wife Maria Brändli. In its grandeur, it is one of the few witnesses of an increased self-confidence of the rural patriciate in the otherwise rather modest Zurich Oberland. A historic room has been located on the ground floor since 1937 and is still accessible as part of the local history museum. » wald360.ch (accessed February 16, 2019).
- ↑ Anthonius Werdmüller, Memorabilia Tigurina, or Strangeness of the City and Landscape of Zurich , Part 2 (1790), 219f.
- ↑ Zingg (2009), p. 4.
literature
- Urs-Peter Zingg: 300 years of Windegg (PDF) , Us eusere Walder Heimet No. 236, June 2009.
