Caschliun Castle

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Caschliun was the name of a castle in Disentis / Mustér in the Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

history

Sebastian von Castelberg, builder of the castle

Caschliun Castle was built in 1570 by the district judge and ambassador Sebastian von Castelberg (1540–1587). It stood on the flat ledge below Disentis, where the ravine of Val Sogn Placi flows into the main valley. Today the Hotel Disentiser Hof stands there.

According to drawings by Johann Rudolf Rahn from September 1873, the building complex consisted of a residential wing with bering, which was provided with decorative battlements, a polygonal flanking tower and gate. However, these elements of medieval defense architecture were only representative.

The residential wing had windows in the late Gothic and Renaissance styles and was provided with a series of hook brackets, probably for an arcade.

In 1581 Charles Borromeo lived on Caschliun , who was then cardinal and archbishop of Milan. During the village fire of 1799, the castle was protected from the flames by the French occupation troops billeted in it.

In 1830, however, the castle burned down and then fell apart. Rahn's drawings from September 1837 show Bering and the residential wing already disintegrating.

In 1872, Landammann Gion Fidel Condrau acquired the ruins from Joachim Ludovic de Castelberg on behalf of the Condrau brothers. The doctor Augustin Condrau built the Hotel Disentiser Hof on the site, which opened on July 1, 1877. The old hotel was replaced by a new building in 1967 - they had forgotten to put the old building under monument protection.

photos

literature

  • Otto P. Clavadetscher, Werner Meyer : The castle book of Graubünden . Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01319-4 , p. 343
  • Anton von Castelmur: The castles and palaces of the Canton of Graubünden , Volume II, Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel 1940, p. 64
  • Gion Condrau (Ed.): Disentis / Mustér, Past and Present ; Disentis 1996

Web links

Commons : Schloss Caschliun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gion Condrau: Disentis / Mustér, Past and Present; Disentis 19961, p. 201

Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '25.6 "  N , 8 ° 51' 50.8"  E ; CH1903:  709,002  /  173866