Liebenberg ruins (Tösstal)

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Liebenberg ruins
Castle hill view from the south

Castle hill view from the south

Creation time : around 1170
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Place: Tössegg
Geographical location 47 ° 27 '22.3 "  N , 8 ° 47' 28"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '22.3 "  N , 8 ° 47' 28"  E ; CH1903:  701986  /  257 036
Liebenberg ruins (Canton of Zurich)
Liebenberg ruins

The Liebenberg ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle in a forest above the Töss valley east of Kollbrunn in the municipality of Zell (ZH) in the canton of Zurich .

investment

Liebenberg Castle was located on a protruding Nagelfluh rock . It consisted mainly of a tower and a residential building and was surrounded by a curtain wall. To the east it was protected by a neck ditch . Today, apart from the rest of a foundation in the east, nothing can be seen of the castle.

history

It is believed that Liebenberg Castle was built around 1170, as Berthold Schenk von Liebenberg was the first so-called lord of the castle in 1180. The castle consisted of a residential building with a tower, surrounded by a curtain wall. It was later given to the Kyburgers , who gave it to the Bishop of Strasbourg in 1244 and then got it back as a fief . In a document from this period, Liebenberc et etiam Liebenberc are two castles with the same name.

A second such festival under the name Liebenberg in Brand was located in the hamlet of Burg in the municipality of Mönchaltorf and was the seat of the Liebenberg ministers in the early 13th century. From 1293 to 1391 it was the St. Gallen fiefdom of Giel von Glattburg (von Liebenberg) and was then bought by the Habsburg-Austrian servants Gessler, who pledged it to the city of Zurich in 1408, where it was destroyed in the Old Zurich War in 1440 remained (foundation traces).

When the Kyburg family died out in 1264, the castle remained in the possession of the von Liebenbergs under Habsburg rule until the last male representative of the family, Berthold IV, died around 1300. A second line called Liebenberg probably arose when Berthold's sister, Ida, married a knight from Schlatt. This line died in 1357 with Gottfried III. also off.

After that there were various changes of ownership, mostly among local knights . In 1551 the already half-ruined castle belonged to the Zurich council. He used parts of the castle for new river barriers of the wild Töss and for the construction of a new house.

gallery

  • plateau

  • Remnants of the wall

literature

  • Hans Martin Gubler: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich , Vol. VII: The district of Winterthur, southern part. Basel 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Hess: Mönchaltorf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 27, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .