Urgiz ruin
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Urgiz ruin |
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Creation time : | around 1100 to 1200 | |
Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
Conservation status: | ruin | |
Place: | Densbueren | |
Geographical location | 47 ° 27 '38.5 " N , 8 ° 3' 6.3" E | |
Height: | 577 m above sea level M. | |
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The Urgiz ruin is a ruined hilltop castle in the municipality of Densbüren in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It is located northeast of the village on a narrow, steep rocky ridge, at an altitude of 577 m above sea level. M. and around 120 meters above the valley floor.
history
It is not known when the castle was built, but no later than the 12th century. The first historically secured owners were the lords of Uriols mentioned in 1277, who had received the castle from the bishop of Strasbourg as a fief . The fiefdom also included the small lordship of Urgiz with the villages of Densbüren and Asp. After 1315 there are no more records of the lords of Uriols, the later owners are not known. The Basel earthquake of 1356 caused great damage.
In 1429 at the latest, the Effinger family from Brugg acquired the castle loan. In 1444 the castle passed to the Rätz family from Säckingen and in 1475 to the Hasfurter from Lucerne . In 1502, when the castle had already fallen into ruin , the city of Bern acquired the Urgiz rule and set up a high watch there. This was occupied for about three hundred years and was in visual contact with the Hochwachten on the Homberg near Veltheim and the Gislifluh near Thalheim . In 1996/97 the remains of the castle wall were uncovered and preserved.
Remains of the curtain wall and the round tower have been preserved from the castle complex.
Literature and web links
- Franz Xaver Bronner: The Canton Aargau , Part 2, Page 402, 1844, ( Google Books ). In: historical - geographical - statistical painting of Switzerland , as volume 16, part 2.
- Castle world: Urgiz Castle
- Photos and description of the ruin
- Felix Müller: Urgiz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Ruin Urgiz in conservation inventory of the canton of Aargau