Alt-Biederthal ruins
Alt-Biederthal ruins | ||
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Rock on which the Alt-Biederthal Castle stood |
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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 | |
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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.