Brunegg Castle

Brunegg Castle
	Brunegg Castle
Creation time :	13th Century
Conservation status:	Receive
Place:	Brunegg
Geographical location	47 ° 25 '19.8 " N , 8 ° 12' 52.2" E Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '19.8 " N , 8 ° 12' 52.2" E ; CH1903: 658544 / 252662
Height:	543 m above sea level M.

The Brunegg Castle is a small castle-like castle in the town of Brunegg in the Swiss canton of Aargau .

It is located around 120 meters above the village of Brunegg at the end of a rocky spur of the Chestenberg . The mountain ridge drops steeply into the Birrfeld plain to the east of the castle . The castle consists of the main castle with residential wing from the 13th century, a garden from the 19th century and two utility buildings. At the beginning of the 19th century, the height of the castle tower was reduced and this building was combined with the palace by building an intermediate wing.

history

In the 13th century, the Habsburgs had a castle built on the easy-to-defend rock face to protect the south side of their heartland, their own office . The Habsburgs gave the castle loan to the taverns of Brunegg. The first owner known by name is Wernher von Brunegg, who died in 1270. Other owners were the Knights of Hedingen , the Lords of Trostburg and the Gessler of Meienberg . Then Brunegg came to the Lords of Friedingen .

In 1415 the city of Bern captured the western part of the Aargau; Brunegg was one of the few castles that offered resistance. Bern moved into the fief in 1470 and lent it to the Segesser family from Mellingen AG in 1472/73 . When the Reformation was introduced in Bern's Aargau in 1528 , the Segesser von Brunegg who remained Catholic sold the castle back to Bern. In 1626 and 1664 it was badly damaged by the forces of nature.

The new canton of Aargau took over the castle as legal successor in 1804. This was converted into a castle in 1805/06 and used as a nursing home for several years. Brunegg Castle has been privately owned since 1815, first by the original Lenzburg patrician family Hünerwadel, then by inheritance from 1945 until today by the von Salis family . A famous resident was the historian Jean Rudolf von Salis ; the current owner is his son, the doctor Thomas von Salis.

The journalist and columnist Manuel Gasser spent his retirement years in the gatehouse from 1969 to 1979. The writer Hermann Burger moved into this after him (and died there by suicide in 1989 ). In his novel "Brenner", published in 1990, Burger set a literary monument to the castle, there referred to as "Brunsleben".

literature

Walther Merz : Brunegg Castle. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 2, 1903, pp. 274–300. ( Digitized version )
Michael Stettler : The Brunegg Castle . In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): The art monuments of the Canton of Aargau. Volume II: The districts of Lenzburg and Brugg . Basel 1953, pp. 344-353.

Web links

Commons : Brunegg Castle - Collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

↑ Biographical note at sla-foerderverein.ch, accessed on August 12, 2019.
^ Urs Dürmüller Hermann Burger, book review Tuesday, February 28, 1989
^ Hermann Burger : Brenner (laid out in four volumes): First volume: Brunsleben . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-40157-2 .

[1] Biographical note at sla-foerderverein.ch, accessed on August 12, 2019.

[2] Urs Dürmüller Hermann Burger, book review Tuesday, February 28, 1989

[3] Hermann Burger : Brenner (laid out in four volumes): First volume: Brunsleben . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-40157-2 .