Hasenburg ruins (Bergdietikon)

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Hasenburg ruins
Creation time : probably 11th century
Place: Bergdietikon
Geographical location 47 ° 23 '2 "  N , 8 ° 23' 16.4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '2 "  N , 8 ° 23' 16.4"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and seventy-one thousand six hundred eighty  /  two hundred and forty-eight thousand five hundred and forty-nine
Height: 540  m
Hasenburg ruins (canton Aargau)
Hasenburg ruins

The Hasenburg ruins are the no longer visible remains of a medieval castle in the area of ​​the municipality of Bergdietikon in the canton of Aargau .

history

As with the Kindhausen ruins in the same municipality, there are no usable sources. Nothing is known about the users, it is assumed that they served as the landgrave's way-keeper on the way over the Mutschellen.

Building

The castle was on the eastern slope of the Reppisch valley , east of the hamlet of Gimmern. Remains of the castle were still visible in 1868. However, it was then used as a quarry for building roads and houses. Today there are no more visible traces. Because after excavations and investigations by Karl Heid between 1936 and 1937, the foundations were covered again.

The castle is believed to have been built in the 11th century, with only a square tower being built at first. This was enclosed on three sides by a walled, arched courtyard. At a later stage one was on the outside of the circular wall Palas with kennel grown. This hall must have burned down and rebuilt towards the end of the 12th century. A shed or stable was also built. In the middle of the 13th century the castle was destroyed and abandoned.

literature

  • Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Volume VII, District Baden II. Wiese Verlag, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-909164-44-7 , p. 8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Nüscheler : The Houses of God in Switzerland Volume II Diocese of Constance: Archidiakonat Zürichgau , Zürich 1873