Schönenwerd ruins

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Schönenwerd moated castle
Schönenwerd moated castle 12th century

Schönenwerd moated castle 12th century

Creation time : after 1100
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Dietikon
Geographical location 47 ° 23 '54.5 "  N , 8 ° 25' 42"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '54.5 "  N , 8 ° 25' 42"  E ; CH1903:  674713  /  250210
Schönenwerd ruins (Canton of Zurich)
Schönenwerd ruins

The Schönenwerd is the ruin of a moated castle in the area of ​​today's municipality Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

location

The ruins of the Schönenwerd moated castle are now approx. 200 meters from the left bank of the Limmat and 600 meters east of the Glanzenberg SBB train station on the Zurich-Baden railway line . On the right bank of the Limmat, approx. 700 meters downstream, are the ruins of the castle and the former town of Glanzenberg .

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history

The castle was probably at the beginning of the 12th century on an island with Limmat Tower, Palas , Zwinger and ramparts built. After a fire, the castle was restored and two farm buildings in the courtyard were added. The Lords of Schönenwerd are first mentioned in a document in 1240. They were masters of the Habsburgs and practiced the advocacies about Dietikon upper village, which was then regarded as its own bailiwick. On the Reppisch the knights owned a sizable property.

As part of the territorial competition between the Regensbergers and the flourishing city of Zurich , in the first half of the 13th century, the Regensbergers expanded the old Fahr Castle , built around 1044, to become Glanzenberg Castle and probably founded the town of Glanzenberg around 1240 near the Limmat Dietikon ». The Regensbergers had chosen the place for a city to be founded on the basis of strategic considerations. On the one hand, it was supposed to control trade on the Limmat and the road to Baden ; on the other hand, the site was well suited for the construction of a bridge over the Limmat and was located near the Fahr Monastery , also a Regensberg foundation. To build a bridge, however, they needed the cooperation of the Knights of Schönenwerd, whose castle stood on the opposite bank of the Limmat. The city of Zurich, on the other hand, did not tolerate the construction of a new bridge and urged the Lords of Schönenwerd, who pledged in 1257 not to sell any land on the opposite bank of the Limmat for a bridge. Zurich feared that with the establishment of the small town of Glanzenberg a new trade route into central Switzerland would be planned - bypassing the city of Zurich. The castle is said to have been sacked by the people of Zurich in 1334 and 1371. The impoverished Heinrich von Schönenwerd was unable to rebuild the ruins. The Wettingen monastery gradually succeeded in buying the possessions from the impoverished knights. The bailiwick rights of both Dietikons came to the monastery in 1367.

In 1434, Hans Hediger von Altstetten bought the ruins from the Stagel family in Zurich. In 1930-35 the castle was excavated by Karl Heid and in 1970/71 it was conserved by the building authority of the city of Zurich. Today the ruins are owned by the city of Dietikon.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ site burgenwelt.org, castle Schönenwerd