Alt-Biederthal ruins

Alt-Biederthal ruins
	Rock on which the Alt-Biederthal Castle stood
Creation time :	12th Century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	ruin
Place:	Castle in the Leimental
Geographical location	47 ° 27 '22 " N , 7 ° 26' 9" E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '22 " N , 7 ° 26' 9" E ; CH1903: 599790 / two hundred fifty-six thousand one hundred forty-eight

The Alt-Biederthal ruin is located in the Swiss municipality of Burg im Leimental .

location

The ruins of the Höhenburg are located at the western end of the Schönenberg ridge on a rock head. To the south there is a steep rock fall, on the other sides a deep ditch carved out of the rock .

history

The castle was probably an older seat of the Lords of Biederthal which after the located 1.5 kilometers in what is now France Village Biederthal named. The family was first mentioned in a document in 1141. Around 1168 the family was partially expropriated for unknown reasons and their castle was transferred to the Counts of Habsburg by Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa .

The von Ratolsdorf, von Rotberg and von Blauenstein families descended from the von Biederthal family .

The castle was abandoned in the 13th century and the stones were probably used to build the other two castles, Biederthal Castle and the Schönenberg ruins on the same rock ridge.

investment

From the small castle complex with a mass of 20 by 10 meters you can only find scant wall traces on the southwest edge of the plateau.

literature

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, p. 153.

Web links

Burgenwelt: Alt-Biederthal Castle