Alt Homberg ruins
| Alt Homberg ruins | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Alt Homberg Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Wittnau | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 29 '27 " N , 7 ° 58' 23" E | |
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The Alt Homberg ruins , also known as Alt Homberg Castle , are the ruins of a hilltop castle north of Wittnau in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland on a wooded spur of the Homberg at an altitude of 705 m. ü. M. The castle ruins are listed as an A property.
location
The triangular castle square of the main castle is located on a spur of the Homberg and is protected on the western side by two neck ditches . The inner neck ditch was created in a size that is unique for Swiss castle construction. The lower castle lies on the northern slope and was protected by its own neck ditch.
It was built within sight of the older Alt-Tierstein Castle .
history
The castle was built around 1100 and served as an ancestral castle for a line of the Counts of Thierstein . From then on, the line was called von Homberg . After 1223 the castle was inherited by the Counts of Froburg . After the Neu-Homberger line died out, the castle came to the countess Maria von Oettingen. On August 8, 1351, Duke Albrecht of Austria bought the entire castle district from her for 400 marks. But it was only in the possession of the Habsburg dukes of Austria for a short time . As early as 1353, the castle was pledged to Count Johann II von Habsburg-Laufenburg . The castle was destroyed in the Basel earthquake in 1356 . An excavation find suggests that at least the castle chapel was rebuilt. The castle was last mentioned in a document in 1534, but only as a castle stable .
The castle ruins were excavated in 1869, 1881 and 1884 by young men from Wittnau.
literature
- Thomas Bitterlin Swiss Castle Guide , 1995 Friedrich Reinhard Verlag Basel, ISBN 3-7245-0865-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ A-Objects AG 2018 . Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance. In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 26, 2017 (PDF; 127 kB, 23 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).
- ↑ According to the information board on site