Ruin Gümmenen
| Ruin Gümmenen | ||
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Mühleberg | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 56 '38.4 " N , 7 ° 14' 43.1" E | |
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The Gümmenen castle ruin is a defunct Niederungsburg near Gümmenen in the Swiss municipality of Mühleberg in the canton of Bern .
history
Gümmenen Castle was probably built in the 12th century under the Zähringers or Burgundians . Like the Grasburg and Laupen Castle , it served to protect the Sense - Saane line and stood on the direct route between Murten and Bern at a strategically important Saane crossing.
In 1319 the Reichsburg and the settlement at its feet were first mentioned in a document. In 1259 Peter II of Savoy received the castle as an imperial fief . In 1282/83 King Rudolf I of Habsburg forced the Savoy to return the rule and handed it over to the knight Ulrich von Maggenberg as a pledge. In 1319 the von Maggenbergs sold the castle to Freiburg . From 1319 to 1325 the knights of Vuippens owned the fief. In 1331 there was a Gümmenenkrieg between Bern and Freiburg . The Bernese besieged Gümmenen Castle and destroyed the castle and the place. In the following years the ruins were used as a quarry.
Today all traces of Gümmenen Castle have disappeared.
literature
- E. Lüthi: The imperial city of Gümmenen and its surroundings. 1913.
- H. Rennefahrt: Introduction. In: Hermann Rennefahrt: Collection of Swiss legal sources, Section II: The legal sources of the Canton of Bern, Part two: Rights of the landscape. Volume 5: The law of the Laupen district. Aarau 1952. (ssrq-sds-fds.ch) .
- D. Gutscher, PJ Suter (Ed.): Archeology in the Canton of Bern. Volume 3A, 1994, p. 234.