Bellikon Castle

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Bellikon Castle
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Creation time : 1430-1440
Conservation status: receive
Place: Bellikon
Geographical location 47 ° 23 '24 "  N , 8 ° 20' 34"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '24 "  N , 8 ° 20' 34"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred sixty-five  /  249190
Bellikon Castle (Canton Aargau)
Bellikon Castle

The Bellikon Castle is a castle in the Swiss municipality of Bellikon in Canton Aargau . It is located west of the village center in an extensive park, high above the Reuss valley on a terrace of the Heitersberg .

history

The castle was built in the third or fourth decade of the 14th century by the Krieg family . The wars came from Zurich and had been one of the city's most respected families since the 12th century. In 1314 Peter Krieg acquired part of the goods and rights in Bellikon from the Habsburgs . In 1343 the war gave themselves the nickname of Bellikon and in the course of time acquired further goods in the neighboring villages. Bailiwick and castle were acquired by the pastor in Seengen in 1605 , and in 1640 by the Schmid family from Uri . The castle later changed hands at regular intervals, and at the beginning of the 20th century it served temporarily as a health resort.

The floor plan of the four-storey castle is a rectangle that approximates the square. The late Gothic main building has 1.3 meter thick walls. A circular stair tower (Schneggen) is built on the south side, shifted westward from the central axis . More modern additions are another stair tower on the northeast corner, a veranda in the west and a round-arched loggia in the east as a connection to the neighboring castle chapel. Inside the inhabited building there are French-influenced salons. The Zürcher Stube on the first floor is decorated with colored coats of arms.

To the east of the castle, integrated into the park wall, is the chapel built in 1676 . It is a simple rectangular building with a drawn-in, three-sided closing choir .

literature

  • Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Volume VI, District of Baden I. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1976, ISBN 3-7643-0782-X , p. 343-346 .

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