Dübelstein ruin

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Dübelstein ruin
Access via the ditch

Access via the ditch

Alternative name (s): Waldmannsburg
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Free nobles
Place: Dubendorf
Geographical location 47 ° 22 '47.8 "  N , 8 ° 36' 56.5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '47.8 "  N , 8 ° 36' 56.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-six  /  248344
Height: 506  m above sea level M.
Dübelstein ruins (Canton of Zurich)
Dübelstein ruin

The Dübelstein ruins are the ruins of a hillside castle near the town of Dübendorf in the Swiss canton of Zurich on the northern slope of the Adlisberg at 506  m above sea level. M.

history

In 1130 the name of the Lords of Dübendorf was mentioned for the first time. The family was entrusted with the supervision of the place Dübendorf in the 13th century. A few years after the castle was built, a family member called himself Konrad von Dübelstein, then Tuobelnstein, for the first time in 1257 . The castle had a massive keep with walls up to three meters thick.

The dynasty of the lords of Dübelstein died out around 1314 and the castle fell to the lords of Hofstetten until 1402. Dübelstein later changed hands several times. During the Old Zurich War , the then lord of the castle, Dübelstein , had to hand over the advancing Schwyz troops in 1444 without a fight so that his team was spared. The Schwyz devastated the complex, but shortly afterwards the castle was rebuilt.

In 1487, the then mayor of Zurich, Hans Waldmann, bought the castle and its rulership rights from the Werdenbergers . After his execution, it was looted and destroyed again in April 1489. The city of Zurich confiscated the castle and lordship, along with the rest of Waldmann's property. The future mayor of Zurich, Rudolf Escher , made the castle habitable again from 1489–1496.

On May 27, 1611, Dübelstein was almost completely destroyed by fire when a maid was drying flax on the fire. Since the tower was not badly damaged, it was still inhabited. In the course of the 17th century, Dübelstein was abandoned and used as a quarry.

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Hans Waldmann's death, the facility was acquired by the Waldmann Exhibition Committee in 1889 and a memorial for Hans Waldmann was created. On October 4, 1891, the committee donated the castle hill to the city of Zurich for the use of the city. The ruin was excavated and preserved from 1942 to 1943. The listed ruin hill was sold to the Pro Waldmannsburg association in 1998 for a symbolic price of one franc.

  • Tower foundation

  • View to the north

  • The oldest representation of the Waldmannsburg in Gerold Edlibach's coat of arms from 1489

  • Reconstruction of the state in the 17th century by L. Schulthess (1836)

literature

  • Reto Dubler, Christine Keller et al .: From Dübelstein to Waldmannsburg: noble residence, memorial and research project . Swiss contributions to the cultural history and archeology of the Middle Ages 33rd Verlag Schweizerischer Burgenverein, Basel 2006. ISBN 3-908182-17-4

Web links

Commons : Burg Dübelstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Castles, castles of Zurich: Zurich Castle Dübelstein
  2. ^ Association Pro Waldmannsburg (PDF file; 311 kB)