Alt-Bichelsee ruins

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Alt-Bichelsee ruins
Hill of the Alt-Bichelsee castle

Hill of the Alt-Bichelsee castle

Creation time : around 1250
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Bichelsee-Balterswil
Geographical location 47 ° 26 '50.5 "  N , 8 ° 55' 2.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '50.5 "  N , 8 ° 55' 2.6"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred eleven thousand five hundred twenty-five  /  256,225
Alt-Bichelsee ruin (Canton Thurgau)
Alt-Bichelsee ruins

Alt-Bichelsee is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the municipality of Bichelsee-Balterswil in the Swiss canton of Thurgau .

description

The castle ruins are located on a mountain ridge in the west of the village of Bichelsee. It was a multi-part system on two levels, with the main castle itself standing on a very steep, narrow ridge and therefore certainly not very comfortable. Today there is no more masonry to be seen, only a wall and moat of the lower castle towards the village and a huge moat that protected the main castle from the mountain side can still be seen.

history

In 1209 the family of the Lords of Bichelsee is mentioned for the first time. These were the brothers Walter the First and Eberhard the First. The two belonged to the lower nobility and were servants of the St. Gallen monastery .

The Neu-Bichelsee Castle was built in 1250 and Eberhard the First of Bichelsee founded the Tänikon Monastery . 23 years later, Neu-Bichelsee Castle was set on fire by Rudolf von Habsburg and never rebuilt afterwards. In the Battle of Morgarten in 1315, three knights of the von Bichelsee family fell.

In 1358 the Alt-Bichelsee Castle had to be sold to Hermann IV von Landenberg-Greifensee for financial reasons. In 1407 the castle was set on fire by the Appenzell people. It was rebuilt shortly afterwards.

In 1421 Alt-Bichelsee had to be resold again, to the Fischingen monastery . The castle was then inhabited by a doctor from Fischingen until it gradually fell into disrepair. The last remains of the ruins were used to build the village church in 1864.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The medieval castle Alt-Bichelsee. (PDF) Canton Thurgau, Office for Archeology, accessed on November 19, 2017 .