Mandach Castle

The Mandach Castle or Schlössli Mandach was a permanent house near Bad Zurzach in the Swiss canton of Aargau on the Upper Rhine near the Zurzach – Rheinheim bridge .

history

It is assumed that around 1320 the nobles von Mandach, as ministerials of the bishops of Constance, built a permanent house here, Bishop Eberhard had the Rhine bridge rebuilt here after buying Zurzach , but it probably did not exist for a hundred years. The owners then changed several times. Fief holders were also the Schaffhausen family of St. Georgen abbot David von Winkelsheim . The Zurzach Monastery followed later as the owner. From 1671 to 1673, Canon Johann Jakob Äckerlin had the house renovated and rounded off the area. The property can be seen on a drawing by Franz Heinrich Baldinger from 1829. After Äckerlin's death, the Schlössli came to the St. Trudpert Monastery , Abbot Roman Edel died here in 1694 in exile and was buried in the Verena Minster . 1744 during the siege of Freiburg by Louis XV. The abbots of the St. Trudpert and Schwarzach monasteries stayed here . In 1749, merchants from Winterthur bought the property, and in 1771 it went to Tschudi von Gräpplang . In 1799 the button maker Johannes Gross zum Herz in Zurzach bought the Schlössli, in 1812 he passed it on to Johannes Höhn from Horgen. Then other various owners followed. In 1871 it was the quarters of soldiers of the Bourbaki army . In 1906 it fell victim to the construction of the Rhine Valley Railway as an old box , until then it had served as a modest but popular pub with a sometimes dubious reputation. When the Rhine bridge did not yet exist, the landing point of the Rhine ferry Rheinheim-Zurzach, which was particularly important for the Zurzach trade fair , was located here for centuries . Today the tunneled bypass road runs alongside the Rhine Valley Railway. In Riedern am Wald is still the ruins of the castle Mandach . Junker Sebastian von Mandach acquired Oberstaad Castle in 1516 .

Representations

• There are old pictures of Mandach Castle. An old photograph taken shortly before the demolition is in the Museum Höfli . Two preserved doors are in the Zurzach town hall.

literature

• Albert and Hans Rudolf Sennhauser and Alfred Huber (eds.): History of the Fleckens Zurzach. Hist. Vereinigung des Bez. Zurzach, Zurzach 2004, ISBN 3-9522575-2-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Rudolf Sennhauser: History of the Fleckens Zurzach. P. 37 ff.

Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '9.5 "  N , 8 ° 18' 1.4"  E ; CH1903:  664827  /  two hundred seventy thousand nine hundred and forty-three