Alt-Bechburg ruins
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 Alt-Bechburg ruins |
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| Creation time : | around 1000 to 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Holderbank | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 19 ′ 56 " N , 7 ° 46 ′ 18" E | |
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The Alt-Bechburg is the ruin of a high medieval hill castle in the municipality of Holderbank in the canton of Solothurn .
history
The ruin can be found on a narrow rock ridge on the pass path over the Buchsiterberg , which was a popular Jura crossing in the Middle Ages.
The castle was built in the 11th century by the Barons von Bechburg . In the course of time, the two parts of the castle came to different owners, making the complex a double castle, a Ganerbeburg . Only the rear castle remained for the family as their own castle. The front castle belonged to the Bishop of Basel as a fief . However, the fief bearer, the Counts of Frohburg (also Froburg), had given them to the Counts of Falkenstein , a side branch of the Bechburgs. At the beginning of the 14th century, the knight Heinrich von Ifenthal first bought the front castle (1325) and then the rear castle (1336) and thus brought them together. The castle was then sold as a whole by the knight's granddaughter, Margreth von Ifenthal, to the city of Solothurn in 1416 . The city lent the castle and the associated Sennhof to private individuals. This was the Bloch family from Klus , who held the inheritance from 1572 to 1668. But they were mainly interested in the Sennhof, there was a lack of money to maintain the castle, and it was neglected, so that as early as the 17th century there was talk of a "disintegrating castle". The castle, which was already in ruins, went up in flames for unknown reasons in 1713 and became a ruin. Between 1936 and 1937, the ruin was excavated and preserved on the initiative of the historical association.
During the excavations in 1936, a broken jug was found with over 5000 coins inside. Except for eight coins, they were so-called silent coins . These double-sided silver coins with a double bulbous cross or wheel are assumed to have been minted in Solothurn around 1180. The treasure has been transferred to the Blumenstein Historical Museum .
See also
literature
- Hans-Rudolf Binz: The old Bechburg at Holderbank. How did she look before? In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter, Vol. 67, 2009, pp. 18–24.
- Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio . Published by the Castle Friends of both Basels on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. Klingental printing works, Basel 1981, pp. 188–190.
- Gottlieb Loertscher: The districts of Thal, Thierstein and Dorneck . In: The art monuments of the Canton of Solothurn. Birkhäuser, Basel 1957, Volume 3, pp. 88-89.
- Historical Association of the Canton of Solothurn: Yearbook for Solothurn History . Buchdruckerei Gassmann, 1928, p. 46.
- Antiquarian Society in Zurich, Swiss National Museum: Gazette for Swiss Antiquities: Indicateur D'antiquités Suisses . 1892.
Web links
- Alt-Bechburg on the holderbank-so.ch site
- Castle world: Alt-Bechburg
- Peter Kaiser: Alt-Bechburg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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- ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 177, keyword Bechburg (Alt-) ( scan of the lexicon page ).
