Alt-Landenberg ruins

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Alt-Landenberg ruins
Castle courtyard to the west

Castle courtyard to the west

Creation time : Around 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Bauma
Geographical location 47 ° 22 '21.9 "  N , 8 ° 52' 20.5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '21.9 "  N , 8 ° 52' 20.5"  E ; CH1903:  708,281  /  247868
Height: 721  m above sea level M.
Alt-Landenberg ruins (Canton of Zurich)
Alt-Landenberg ruins

The Castle Alt-Landsberg is the ruins of a hilltop castle in the area of today's community Bauma in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . It is located on a hill above the Töss at 721  m above sea level. M.

investment

Access was made difficult on the mountain side by an artificially deepened neck ditch . Today's access is from the south. After a first gate you came to a kennel and a drawbridge to a second gate to a staircase carved into the rock, which led directly into the complex.

The complex consists of a 25-meter-long western section and a slightly longer and wider eastern section, in which the residential buildings were located. The construction took place in several phases. An older complex, presumably with clapboard-roofed wooden houses, was expanded around 1200; the curtain wall was also built around this time. The old entrance in the north was replaced by a gate system in the southwest. A striking amount of tufa was used as building material . The spacious palace , which occupied the whole eastern part, was created in a later expansion phase. On the mountain side it was protected by a partially preserved three meter thick shield wall . The pillars that supported the first floor can still be seen. The transverse wall to the west and 14 meters deep Sodbrunnen being added later. It is conceivable that this narrow part formed a stairwell. No traces of a keep were found.

The complex of old Landsberg with perimeter wall , gate construction , kennel , patio, spacious palace and farm buildings represented a typical castle of the late Middle Ages . The castle complex was uncovered and restored in the 1960s.

  • Plant plan

  • Looking west, water well

  • Castle courtyard to the east

  • Hall

history

The Alt-Landenberg Castle, from Old High German Landinberg ("Burg des Lando"), was built around 1200 as a typical clearing castle. Its beginnings and first residents are not documented. In 1315, however, the last knights of the castle, Rudolf and his son Pantaleon, fell in the Battle of Morgarten when they suffered a devastating defeat against the Confederates on the side of the Habsburgs . The castle then fell back to the monastery of St. Gallen as an inheritance , passed into the hands of different owners and in 1549 came to the city ​​of Zurich , which lent it on. The last owner mentioned is Hans Rüegg von Altlandenberg, who in 1651 offered to contribute stones from the increasingly decaying castle for a church. The castle ruins were uncovered and restored in 1958/63.

  • Access

  • Way to the castle courtyard

  • Bering

literature

  • Werner Meyer (Red.): Castles of Switzerland. Volume 5: Cantons of Zurich and Schaffhausen. Silva, Zurich 1982, pp. 9-10.
  • Walter Drack (Red.): Zurich Monument Preservation, 3rd report 1962/1963. Zurich 1967, pp. 13–24.
  • Hans Kläuli: Castle and rule Altlandenberg. In: Walter Sprenger (Red.): History of the Bauma community. Volume 1, Bauma 1994, ISBN 3-85981-173-8 , pp. 131-180.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ruine Alt-Landenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Jakob Egli : Nomina geographica. Language and factual explanation of 42,000 geographical names of all regions of the world. Friedrich Brandstetter, 2nd edition Leipzig 1893, p. 524